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    Apr 27, 2024  
MCCC College Catalog 2022-23 
    
MCCC College Catalog 2022-23 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ELEC 141 - Industrial Automation & Process Control


Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 4
Prerequisites: ELEC 125 
Session Cycle: WI

This course covers typical industrial control systems for machine tool processes and materials handling. Included are programmable logic controllers, open-loop and closed-loop control, effects of varying proportional band, integral (reset) time-constant and derivative (rate) time-constant, operating principles and applications of electrical transducers (thermocouples, photocells, tachometers, etc.), output devices (valves and valve-operators, AC and DC motors etc.) and principles and applications of DC drive systems.