This webinar introduces mechatronics and industrial automation by explaining how mechanical systems, electronics, software, and control engineering work together to create smarter machines and processes. It walks through the core building blocks of a modern automation system—data acquisition (analog and digital I/O), Modbus RTU vs. Modbus TCP communications, signal conditioning, and control logic—and shows how these pieces connect in real applications like process monitoring, alarm triggering, fan/actuator control, and equipment status tracking. The training highlights both wired and wireless architectures (RS-485 networks, Ethernet networks, and options like Zigbee and Wi-Fi) and demonstrates how WISE smart automation controllers can implement IF-THEN-ELSE logic, scheduling, emailing logs/alerts, and web-based monitoring without traditional programming. The session concludes with a live demonstration of EZ Data Logger, showing how to build a PC-based monitoring dashboard with trends, data logging, and control objects for a practical mechatronics-style application.
