Industrial Motor Control
Industrial Motor Control
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ISBN: 9781133691808
Author: Stephen Herman
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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The industry that first starting using the PLC’s.

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The PLC stand form the programmable logic control, it is an industrial control system that monitors the input of different devices and then makes the decision based on the various programs that controls the output of a device. The PLC are used to control the machine in industries on large scale.

The type of industries that first used PLC was automotive industry in the 1960’s. For the new design of the automobile as it was important to change the control circuit and to program all the machinery as per requirement.

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