MECH 3350 - Advanced PLCs and Integration

Credit Hours: 3

The course provides students with additional and more advanced skills in Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). Students will learn how to program and apply zone control techniques, data transfer, math functions, and data communications. Also covered are sequencers, analog I/O, the use of HMIs (Human Machine Interface), programming special function modules, process control, and I/O bus networks. In addition to ladder logic programming, sequential function chart and function block programming will be used to program a PLC. Two lecture-hours and three laboratory-hours per week.

Prerequisite: MECH 3325 or MECH 2300