Title: Final Project Introduction-3
Course: Open EIC225 Programmable Controllers

Final Project Overview with Details to Come!

Students, you have just about learned enough to get started, so It's time to begin thinking about your final projects.  As a PLC programmer it is common for the customer to provide two pieces of information and expect the automation professional to do the rest.  Often in the real world you will have more than one due date for each portion of the project you work on for a customer so that is how I have set up the project in this class.

For the final project, you will be given a PID (process instrument diagram) and a control philosophy.  These documents will be sent by email.  From these documents, you will provide the following deliverables over the next four modules:

1.  IO list (due at the end of Module 4)

2.  Hardware layout and drawing (due at the end of Module 5)

3.  IO loop drawings (due at the end of Module 6)

4.  PLC program (due at the end of Module 7)

The PLC program must be documented with tagnames and rung comments.  All documentation will be reviewed and the PLC program will be tested by me to verify that the program operates according to the control philosophy.

More to come in Module 4...