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Automated Manufacturing Systems; PLCs

This is a manuscript for a PLC based control system book that is currently being used for teaching an undergraduate controls course EGR 450 - Manufacturing Controls. The course and book focus on the Allen Bradley family of controllers, thus allowing a deeper topic coverage than is normal in PLC books.

Status

The version 5.0 book posted on this page is updated to focus on the Allen Bradley ControlLogix controllers. The older book focuses on the PLC-5 and Micrologix platforms and can be found on a copy of the previous page. Version 5.0 is guaranteed to contain mistakes, but a cleaner version will be available in mid-July.

A Free Book...

Please note that the book is available under the GFDL (GNU Free Document License). This permits copying, distribution, modification, etc. without my permission, within the terms of the license.

Interesting facts

Between May 6 and August 22, 2003 the book was downloaded 88973 times from the main website. This does not include downloads from other websites that have copies of the book. It also does not include copies downloaded over the previous years. Yesterday (August 21) the book was downloaded 563 times. In the same time period individual chapters were downloaded in PDF and RTF formats 88086 times. Most interestingly is that the PLC book webpage was only accessed 14001 times. This suggests that people have created links, or are using external links to access the book directly.
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Last revised: May 5, 2008