This folder groups sources of informations about techniques and technologies in relation to factory automation and control.
Among these pages, you will find resources such as educational papers, technical documentation and features, standards, specifications, software tools and more.
- Multi-techniques and multi-technologies resources in automation and control.
Introduction to some educational directories and papers, to the Schneider Electric technical white papers ( automation, electricity, motors, safety ), and to dynamic forums specialized in various industrial techniques.
- Automation and control technologies.
Introduction to control technologies such as PID control loops, to advanced control, and to production management ( S88 and S95 standards ).
Introduction to some automation software such as the open source process control software « PROVIEW » ( PLC programmable controller, MMI operator interface, supervisory control and real time data base ) and its numerous features.
Introduction to some utilities for automation engineers and to some interesting automation forums.
- Industrial instrumentation.
Introduction to the basics and to the fundamentals concepts in measurement and in instrumentation, introduction to sensors technologies in general, documents about some specific measurement technologies ( flow metering, level gauging and more ), and then software especially designed to interface instrumentation devices such as « Pactware » or « FDT ».
- Industrial communication networks.
You will find here basics in digital communication networking.
You will also find some informations and utility software in relation with protocols, Ethernet and internet technologies, field buses, control buses, sensors and actuators networks ( IO-Link for instance ), instrumentation networks, computer vision networks and the basics about HART modem working.
You could learn what is a virtual serial port before looking at an application example of « virtual serial port over IP ».
Then, you can read informations about wireless networks technologies and other miscellaneous networks.
- Image processing and computer vision.
Introduction to image processing technology, to machine vision, to colour processing and colour treatment, with overviews of some related standards such as the EMVA one's for example.
- Industrial robotics.
Here are basics and fundamental in robotics. You can access to educational papers about geometry, kinematics ( parallel kinematics include ) and trajectories. Then you can read informations about trends and economical statistics, about some research projects and about some international projects too, such as the ESMERA project for instance.
- Cyber-security and industrial control systems.
By the time now, it is crucial for the industry to take in consideration how critical are the digital threats.
To convince you a little bit about, just read the introduction of this chapter, and browse one of the selected vulnerability data bases containing all the threats detected in industrial control systems ( programmable controllers, operator interfaces, SCADA systems, instruments, digital networks ).
There, you will also find presentations of tools intended to singularly strengthen the security of your industrial digital networks ( authentication software, virtual tunnelling software, cryptography services … ), anonymous services for personal computer or for mobile devices, and personal protection tools ( anti-virus, firewalls … ).
- Automation manufacturers technical documentation.
A list of resources related to the technical documentation of some manufacturers of factory automation devices.