Introduction to Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) (Full Lecture)

In this lesson we'll perform a brief overview and orientation to the programmable logic controller or PLC. We'll discuss the purpose and basic parts of a PLC and discuss different types of PLCs and PLC specifications. Additionally, we'll discuss the differences and advantages of PLCs over traditional hardwired relay based ladder logic. (Full Lecture)
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  • @Durfadorfano
    @Durfadorfano6 жыл бұрын

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    @tushar76824 жыл бұрын

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  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    4 жыл бұрын

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    @nahuel32564 жыл бұрын

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    @neosandi67 жыл бұрын

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    @corymcdonald37035 жыл бұрын

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  • @dimak.9906
    @dimak.99066 жыл бұрын

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  • @saikiran-xt9wf
    @saikiran-xt9wf5 жыл бұрын

    Sir, you are amazing and my god! Thank you very much for your time to make these lecture videos.

  • @wisconsinfarmer4742
    @wisconsinfarmer47423 жыл бұрын

    I am moving from residential/commercial maintenance to industrial. Yes, the versatility and expediency blows my mind.

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    @hussainqais38955 жыл бұрын

    That was the best and most helpful video any one could ever find on KZread. Thanks a lot for sharing this knowledge with the world.

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    @idemanddonuts

    3 жыл бұрын

    And he isn’t even Indian

  • @bluediamond105
    @bluediamond1054 жыл бұрын

    I just got hired in a company as an maintenance electrician and most of my job its operate PLC ,I am new at it and still being trained but I like it and I have been looking for a school near los angeles to learn more ,this videos been helping me a lot ,its like my brain its being expanded :D thumbs up.

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    @mohamedel-shamy1945

    4 жыл бұрын

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    @drewmatias94672 жыл бұрын

    great job sir. as clear as water.

  • @maputiatota5887
    @maputiatota58872 жыл бұрын

    I dig giant robots and I also dig this. Marvellous lecture Jim!

  • @andrestellez4352
    @andrestellez43526 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing your knowledge Amigo.. I will look forward to all your videos.. Thank you from down here in MEXICO...

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    6 жыл бұрын

    De nada.

  • @user-cq7hx6fe9y
    @user-cq7hx6fe9y8 ай бұрын

    I teach a range of courses at CSCC and I use these lectures for tune-ups for myself before teaching. Jim is very talented and explains things so throroughly!

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    8 ай бұрын

    Thanks Chris! Good to see you in DC.

  • @jw4268
    @jw4268 Жыл бұрын

    after 5 years, I watched this again and still find this video unbelievably useful! thank you very much!

  • @jw4268
    @jw42686 жыл бұрын

    this is so helpful!!!!!! thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @alexguna1675
    @alexguna16754 жыл бұрын

    Very useful video sir!

  • @isaiahongonga3136
    @isaiahongonga31365 жыл бұрын

    I liked the tutorial. Big up

  • @dennisclapp7527
    @dennisclapp75275 жыл бұрын

    Excellent!

  • @frost381
    @frost3813 жыл бұрын

    Great Lecture! great for studying for my PLC exam haha.

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad you're making use of this material. Please tell your classmates about this resource!

  • @yem.t.3930
    @yem.t.39305 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much!

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    @09alvaha2 жыл бұрын

    Excellent content, better than realpars imo

  • @ahmedabubakar4424
    @ahmedabubakar44246 жыл бұрын

    Hi Jim well-done I have learned alot. Thanks

  • @Waafa

    @Waafa

    4 жыл бұрын

    I hate learning.

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    @elc_legionalhmera.32953 жыл бұрын

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    @gyrgrls3 жыл бұрын

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    2 жыл бұрын

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    9 ай бұрын

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  • @jkbrown5496
    @jkbrown54966 жыл бұрын

    Today I had cause to look into the history of the PLC only to discover that Dick Morley, Father of the PLC, passed just this last October and that Jan 1, 2018 will be the 50th anniversary of the day he penned the outline of what became the MODICON by the end of the year while nursing a hangover.

  • @TTopclips
    @TTopclips Жыл бұрын

    thanks for this video

  • @esomnath
    @esomnath5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you 🙏🏻

  • @bachirghendir4479
    @bachirghendir44793 жыл бұрын

    Very good explain put if you have formation about programming completely plc

  • @alairicsondergaard3618
    @alairicsondergaard36183 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much

  • @electricaltyler5998
    @electricaltyler59983 жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate your videos man... what is a book you would suggest to study PLC any advice would be appreciated. This stuff is valuable

  • @Automationacademytv
    @Automationacademytv4 жыл бұрын

    very helpful

  • @hexmancer69
    @hexmancer69 Жыл бұрын

    "I'm sorry, did I just blow your mind? ...Never have to rewire the system" Me, a mechanical engineer with no traditional electrical wiring experience: ah yes I see the computer is made out of computer Sarcasm aside these lectures are incredibly helpful for me in my career in automation right now.

  • @sureshkmr391
    @sureshkmr3914 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @kozstandsya1494
    @kozstandsya14942 жыл бұрын

    For those wondering how computers or CPUs work on the electrical signal/binary level, here's a great playlist that really helped my understanding of what's going on in the background of CPUs and memory storage: kzread.info/head/PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2565dvjafglHU If you apply it to PLCs, you'll see roughly HOW the CPU "makes the decision" of what signals go where

  • @macditty
    @macditty7 жыл бұрын

    If I could press a button and give someone a million subscribers, I would use it on your channel. Thanks for this shit, for real!

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the kind words. Do me a favor and let your friends know this resource is available!

  • @macditty

    @macditty

    7 жыл бұрын

    Jim Pytel I hear people asking for PLC and ladder logic videos and stuff on reddit.com/r/plc quite a bit, do you ever post there? This is a much better resource for a beginner than some of the stuff that those guys recommend, IMO at least, so I'll definitely tell people on there.

  • @jacobcrawford2738
    @jacobcrawford27386 жыл бұрын

    The link for the study guide works but once you actually click on the study guide itself, it says page not found.

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for letting me know. This isn’t the first time this has happened. Let me check w the school’s web guy.

  • @anamy
    @anamy6 жыл бұрын

    ty

  • @edschoenecker9470
    @edschoenecker94702 жыл бұрын

    Hi, Jim. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with the rest of us. If you could, I wonder if you would be willing to extend your generosity a bit further? I'm a Maintenance Tech/Industrial Electrician in the Chicago-land area. I'm looking to expand my skill-set/resume to include PLCs. However; I'm finding it difficult to nail down an in-person course to attend. As a Maintenance Tech, I have some familiarity working around "PLC peripherals", as I refer to them, but I have no experience with programming, editing, or otherwise maintaining a program. If you have a suggestion for a class/seminar, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm hoping to find one of the "boot camp" type classes that may be a week, or two long. I'm happy to travel where I would need to. Again, thank you for the wonderfully informative videos. If you do have a suggestion on a course, I thank you in advance for that, as well.

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    2 жыл бұрын

    I do have a bunch of new PLC material planned but it's WAY in the future. In the meantime I'd check out solisPLC. A coworker has had some success with their training.

  • @jean-claudenjeckforty4757
    @jean-claudenjeckforty47576 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video, it was educative. But the link is broken, when clicked on it they say page not found. Thanks once more

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes, we're having some website issues at the school. Let me get in touch with our IT guy.

  • @johnware5312
    @johnware53126 жыл бұрын

    Basicly the same deal as program a eeprom.. Just done differently. Personally I think the make and brak symbyols are logically reversed... visually if there is NOTHING between the 2 vertical lines on the diagram its VISUALLY open and that arrow there VISUALLY shows connected...

  • @burakayan3360
    @burakayan33602 жыл бұрын

    İ wish i found out ths channel before

  • @nikhilshere2682
    @nikhilshere26826 жыл бұрын

    can u tell me types of relays ,transistors uses in plc?

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    6 жыл бұрын

    Electromechanical relays and solid state transistors commonly make up the output elements of a PLC. When commanded to do so by the internal program these output devices will selectively enable output devices.

  • @nydiaferral1781
    @nydiaferral17816 жыл бұрын

    The best advantage of PLC over hard-wired relays: PLC is more fun.

  • @jolyonwelsh9834

    @jolyonwelsh9834

    4 жыл бұрын

    I have only worked with hard wired relays.

  • @wisconsinfarmer4742

    @wisconsinfarmer4742

    3 жыл бұрын

    I would love to replace the relay ladders in our elevators with PLC's

  • @mrdnice425
    @mrdnice4257 жыл бұрын

    I CAN DIG IT!

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    7 жыл бұрын

    Don't dig it too hard. I'd hate for you to pull a muscle.

  • @bigo2391

    @bigo2391

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bigbadtech thank-you for this e ducation

  • @Mo-ti8ym
    @Mo-ti8ym Жыл бұрын

    im a mechanical engineering student... what is the minimum knowledge or courses must b taken before this course?

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    Жыл бұрын

    In a perfect world you would finish the entire basic electrical circuit analysis series (DC, AC, 3 Phase AC) and the motor control playlist ... however ... time may be a limiting factor. At the bare minimum I'd recommend at least paging through the motor control playlist: kzread.info/head/PLdnqjKaksr8qRPCFkU2Q8XQe0bfo99rs6

  • @MicroGTpic
    @MicroGTpic5 жыл бұрын

    I wrote a page to explain the PID temperature regulator. It is available in these link: www.gtronic.it/test/index.php/how-to-implement-a-pid-temperature-control/

  • @michaelattai7390
    @michaelattai73903 жыл бұрын

    hi Jim. please i need certification in PLC. Please do you offer online certifed program on PLC?..... Advice me on my way forward please.

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sorry but I don't offer any formal certification. I do have a PLC playlist at: kzread.info/dash/bejne/i2mCybecj8fenKQ.html however it's still in development. There are a lot of PLC certification programs however I don't think there is an accepted industry standard. I'd recommend seeing which certifications are necessary for your particular industry and contacting these programs directly.

  • @mahdmukta669

    @mahdmukta669

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bigbadtech I can't open the link

  • @fisforfriendship6093
    @fisforfriendship6093 Жыл бұрын

    emplemon?

  • @nadhira7958
    @nadhira79583 жыл бұрын

    12:00

  • @nikhilshere2682
    @nikhilshere26826 жыл бұрын

    can i do some crash courses in this and which are they?

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    6 жыл бұрын

    This playlist is still in development: kzread.info/head/PLdnqjKaksr8qxlMYRVTF2YzTm6RwtA7pc One day it'll be a complete course.

  • @montyedgar6409

    @montyedgar6409

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jim Pytel Your comment was two years ago. Is it now a complete course? Too, I just found your videos recently, and have been listening every day since! Thank you for putting these videos together!!!

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@montyedgar6409 Glad you're making use of these resources. Unfortunately, no the PLCs course is not finished yet. I've been finishing up the basic electricity and electronics series. Once this monkey is off my back my hopes are to return to PLCs and motors/generators, industrial wind power, and solar. Stay in touch! Until then here's all I've got for PLCs: kzread.info/head/PLdnqjKaksr8qxlMYRVTF2YzTm6RwtA7pc

  • @Youngbl33zy
    @Youngbl33zy5 ай бұрын

    A-lot of people here are industrial maintenance people. Lets share pay, job title and years of experience. I’ll start. Title: Controls and instrumentation technician. Experience: 4 years on job in current position, 4 years maintenance mechanic/multi trade /electrician. 1 year college, no completed degree or certification. Pay: $36.98 Year: 2024

  • @SirFency
    @SirFency6 жыл бұрын

    OK I'm noticing something here that is kind of confusing. When you talk about an open circuit it usually means that there is power running through it. However in Ladder Logic it seems to be the opposite. Is this true or are people just using the open and close term incorrectly?

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    6 жыл бұрын

    In electrical terms "open" means no path for current to flow whereas "closed" means a path is available for current to flow. For clarification maybe check out the "Switches in Series DC Circuits" lecture at: kzread.info/dash/bejne/om1q1tp7fZmth6w.html and "Switches in Electrically Controlled Systems" lecture at: kzread.info/dash/bejne/d4J3xrKscZy2iMY.html

  • @hyperxplays
    @hyperxplays5 жыл бұрын

    How Is This A Programming Language This Is Just Simple Electrical Circuits!

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    5 жыл бұрын

    True dat! Ladder logic (LAD) programming language was specifically developed to look exactly like hard wire relay based ladder logic circuits. I hope cover other programming methods like sequential function charts (SFC) and function block diagrams (FBD) in later lectures.

  • @jordangourley3955
    @jordangourley39559 ай бұрын

    None of the pro plc talking points are correct except maybe the fact you can alter process without rewiring. Now that I have been working with both PLC and hardware relay control systems for years, I can tell you I prefer the old way. PLC hardware fails before relay/contactor wiring. It’s more expensive when you factor in the licensing requirements that almost every manufacturer implements to utilize their processors. The PLC manufacturers are deliberately building processors that are incompatible with previous generations of hardware/software (planned obsolescence). Got a single anolog input module that went down? Oh sorry that module is obsolete, you’re going to need a new processor, as well as all new modules for every rack slot. Bruh this shit is only 3 years old and it cost 50k to integrate and install. So on and so forth. Remember kids: Relays, contactors and starters are open source. And they’re open source forever.

  • @bigbadtech

    @bigbadtech

    9 ай бұрын

    Trust me I do feel your pain!

  • @nglistrik
    @nglistrik3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks