Can anyone recommend a good book on Controls?

[cstoos]

Not so much the math and theory of controls but the actual physical implementation and make up of control systems. Something that tells you how to go from the Laplace domain to real life.

 

[edgepflow]

The way I learned controls for industry applications was by studying samples based on Sequential Function Charts (SFC) per the IEC 1131-3 Standard.

Plug through some samples and you will get the hang of it.

 

[cstoos]

Do you have any references that you recommend? I googled a few and most of it is "this is how you draw this process on a SFC" or "this is the logic to use when utilizing our software".

None of the ones that I have seen so far say "X component acts as a laplacian integrator" or "Analog feedback control is achieved by doing this."

I guess maybe I am searching for a simple answer when there isn't one, but all we learned in school about control systems is the math and not so much how to actually implement that system.

 

[edgepflow]

I was fortunate that I had acess to some Control Descriptions of equipment developed with SFC.

Maybe contact some PLC companies and see if they can recommend some SFC documents.