Introduction to Industrial Automation


Figure 2.17  An indicative table with technical characteristics of general purpose relays



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Introduction to Industrial Automation by Stamatios Manesis, George

Figure 2.17  An indicative table with technical characteristics of general purpose relays.


Hardware Components for Automation and Process Control 



 



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2.2   Sensors

Almost any industrial automation system includes sensors for the detection of the various “states” 

of the controlled manufacturing process and actuators as outputs for real-time acting and achiev-

ing the desired behavior of the production procedure. Following the presentation of actuators in 

the previous section, sensors (by means of their kinds, properties, implementation and the basic 

theory behind them) are described in this subsection. Sensors are devices that, when exposed 

to a physical phenomenon (temperature, pressure, displacement, force, etc.), produce an output 

signal capable of being processed by the automation system. The terms “transducer” and “meter” 

are often used synonymously with sensors, while simultaneously some sensors are combined with 

the term “switch”, causing confusion about the correct terminology. Furthermore, some writers 

consider that “sensor” is only the sensing element that detects the physical magnitude and not the 

whole device that, together with the sensing element, transforms the physical variable into a form 

of electrical signal. Let’s define the meaning of these terms as they will be used in this textbook.

In general, sensors transform the variation of a physical quantity into an electrical output 

signal, which may be an analog or digital one. In the first case, the sensor produces a continuous 

output signal that is proportionally varied to the sensed parameter. For example, a pressure sensor 

may produce a 4–20 mA DC, or 0–10 V DC output signal for a 0–725 psi pressure variation. In 

the second case, the sensor produces a discrete output signal in the form of an ON or OFF, usually 

causing a SPDT contact to change state when the physical quantity gets over a predefined value. 

Sensors with analog output may also be called transducers, while sensors with discrete (or binary 

or digital) output are called switches, e.g., “proximity sensor or switch”. When transducers include 

an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), then they are called digital transducers, since their output 

can be directly fitted to a digital controller, and should not be confused with the binary or digital 

sensors of a switch operation type.

A conventional automation circuit cannot manipulate the output of transducers because of its 

analog form, and thus it may be combined only with sensors of a switch-type output. On the other 

hand, the modern automation systems are realized by programmable logic controllers, which can 

accept both digital type signals (ON-OFF) and analog type current or voltage signals, varied into 

some standard ranges. It is obvious that for the same physical variable (e.g., temperature), there are 

in the marketplace both sensors with switch-type output and transducers with analog-type output, 

while the selection between them depends on the kind of application. It should also be noted that 

some transducers, including a signal-conditioning unit, might offer a second switch-type output, 

except those from an analog-type output, responding to a manually defined value of the detected 

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