Introduction

a.Introduction To Automation

• Brief Description of a Control System
• Micro Controller, PID Controller, PLC Controller
• History & Need of Industrial Automation
• Application of Industrial Automation
• Basic Components of Automation
• Hardware Classification of Automation

2. LabVIEW
3. LabVIEW Environment Basics

• • • Front Panel
    • Controls Palette
    • Controls and Indicators
    • Block Diagram
    • Terminals
    • Controls, Indicators, and Constants
    • Block Diagram Nodes
    • Functions Palette
    • Searching for Controls, VIs and Functions

1. 1. Start Using LabVIEW   

• • • The LabVIEW Environment
    • Block Diagram
    • Numeric Sub Palette
    • Boolean Sub Palette
    • String & Path Sub Palette
    • Function Palette
    • Tools Palette
    • Wiring
    • Toolbar
    • Execution
    • The Objects short-cut menu
    • Dataflow Programming
    • Help
    • Exercises

c.Sub VIs

• • • Create New Sub VI from Scratch
    • Input and Output SubVI Connectors
    • Icon Editor
    • Create Sub VI from existing code
    • Using Sub VIs
    • Exercises

d.Customize LabVIEW

• • • Exercises

e.Graphical Programming

• • • Wires
    • Automatically Wiring Objects
    • Manually Wiring Objects

f.Common Tools In LabVIEW

• • • Selecting a Tool
    • Shortcut Menus
    • Property Dialog Boxes
    • Front Panel Window Toolbar
    • Block Diagram Window Toolbar

g.Debugging Tools In LabVIEW

• • • How to find errors
    • Highlight Execution
    • Probes
    • Breakpoints
    • Step into/over/out debugging
    • Fixing Broken VIs
    • Finding Causes for Broken VIs
    • Common Causes of Broken VIs
    • Fixing Incorrect Behavior
    • Block Diagram Toolbar
    • Probe Tool

h.Programming In LabVIEW

• • • Data Structures
    • Arrays
    • Auto-Indexing
    • Array Functions
    • Clusters
    • Cluster Order
    • Cluster Elements
    • Enumerated data
    • Working with Strings
    • Execution Structures
    • While loops, for loops
    • Case structures
    • Passing Data between Loop Iterations – shift registers
    • Handling Errors – error handling and error clusters

i.Error Handling

• • • Finding Errors
    • Error Wiring
    • Error handling in SubVIs
    • Error Handling
    • Exercises

j.Working With Projects

• • • Project Explorer
    • Deployment
    • Exercises

k.Design Techniques

• Force Program Flow
• Shift Register
• State Programming Architecture
• Multiple Loops/Parallel programming
• Templates
• Exercises

l.User Interface

• Properties
• Exercises

m.Plotting Data

• Customizing
• Exercises