This book has been written for the undergraduate PLC course that introduces the student to a broad range of knowledge and skills that are essential to using PLCs to implement control schemes in a variety of industries. The text is comprehensive in that it covers control logic design, PLC hardware and software, PLC instructions, and PLC programming.<BR><BR>FEATURES<BR><BR>• Designed for flexible use so readers can easily choose desired depth of coverage.<BR>• First five chapters focus on the electrical control fundamentals, number systems, logic basics, Boolean algebra, and simplifying logic circuits.<BR>• Chapters six and seven introduce two methods in designing PLC control logics and circuits that are often absent in other PLC texts.<BR>• The following three chapters cover PLC memory, file structure, discrete input and output modules, and analog input and output modules.<BR>• Covers all important basics and advanced PLC programming instructions.