Aswan University
Fourth Year
Faculty of Engineering
Programmable Logic Controllers Course
Electrical Engineering Department
First Semester
Power and Machines Section
Sheet No. 5
Sheet No. 5
1. Automatic car wash tunnel:
Draw the ladder diagram to achieve the following task, the following sequence of tasks should be
started when the car enters the wash tunnel:
• Soaping (using soap sprinklers) when sensor 1 is detected, it will last for 30 S.
• Washing (using brusher) when sensor 2 is detected, it will last for 30 S.
• Rinsing (using water sprinklers) when sensor 3 is detected, it will last for 20 S.
• Drying (using air blowers) when sensor 4 is detected, it will last for 10 S.
Note:
• Start and stop switches will be required for the whole process.
• A conveyor is required to move the car in the tunnel.
• A limit sensor is required at the end of the tunnel to stop the conveyor.
For a better understanding of the process, a similar process can be found in the following link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWUxqVFBq74
2. Draw the ladder diagram to reverse the rotation of a three-phase induction motor. (Note that the
motor takes time to stop).
3. Write a program to start a motor when a Push‐Button is pressed and then turned off
automatically after 10 seconds from start using:
• ON‐Delay timer.
• OFF‐Delay timer.
• Pulse timer.
In the following cases:
Case 1: The motor stop running after 10 seconds from the Push‐Button press.
Case 2: The motor stop running 10 seconds after releasing the P.B.
(Note: six different programs are required)
4. By using the on‐delay, draw two ladder programs to perform the operation of:
• Pulse timer.
• Off‐Delay timer.
5. Counting Moving Objects on Conveyor:
Objects are moving on the conveyor. We need to count the total number of objects.
Note:
• When the START button is pressed, start the conveyor motor.
• Cases move past proximity switch and increment the counter’s accumulated value.
• After a count of 10, the conveyor motor stops automatically and the counter’s accumulated value
is reset to zero with SP2 (counter reset button).
• The conveyor motor can be stopped manually without loss of the accumulated count.
6. Draw the ladder diagram that will execute the following control circuit correctly:
• Turns on a nonretentive timer when a switch is closed (preset value of timer is 10 s).
• Resets timer automatically through a programmed transitional contact when it times out.
• Counts the number of times the timer goes to 10 s.
• Resets counter automatically through a second programmed transitional contact at a count
of 5. Latches on a light at the count of 5.
• Resets light to off and counter to 0 when a selector switch is closed.
7. Draw the ladder diagram that will correctly execute the industrial control process in the figure.
The sequence of operation is as follows:
• The Product in position (limit switch LS1 contacts close).
• The start button is pressed, and the conveyor motor starts to move the product forward
toward position A (limit switch LS1 contacts open when the actuating arm returns to its
normal position).
• The conveyor moves the product forward to position A and stops (position detected by 8
off to-on output pulses from the encoder, which are counted by an up-counter).
• A time delay of 10 s occurs, after which the conveyor starts to move the product to limit
switch LS2 and stops (LS2 contacts close when the actuating arm is hit by the product).
With our best wishes Dr. Mostafa & Eng. Khaled
