Resources to learn about automation systems?

Question

My work requires working with different types of automation systems, mostly with building automation systems but also industrial. What are some good - and preferably free - resources to learn fundamentals as well as more advanced stuff?

karimtr · Accepted Answer

Are there any specific topics you would like to learn? (e.g. PLC programming, Machine Vision, IoT, HMI development, ...)Also is your goal to learn enough to get a job?

wsh · Answer

Here are some online resources available at no charge:
Engineering Manual of Automatic Control for Commercial Buildings (Honeywell, 1997)
Inch-Pound Edition: https://customer.honeywell.com/resources/techlit/TechLitDocu...
SI Edition: https://customer.honeywell.com/resources/techlit/TechLitDocu...
Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers
https://fbswiki.org/wiki/index.php/Feedback_Systems:_An_Intr...
Instrumentation and Control (U.S. Department of Energy)
https://sites.ntc.doe.gov/partners/tr/Training%20Textbooks/F...
(This is part of a series for nuclear plant operators, but the basic principles are equally applicable in many other fields.)

mardiyah · Answer

Just got brochureshttps://stevenengineering.com/Tech_Support/PDFs/09EA08-2.pdf

Resources to learn about automation systems?

My work requires working with different types of automation systems, mostly with building automation systems but also industrial. What are some good - and preferably free - resources to learn fundamentals as well as more advanced stuff?

Are there any specific topics you would like to learn? (e.g. PLC programming, Machine Vision, IoT, HMI development, ...)
Also is your goal to learn enough to get a job?

Just got brochures
https://stevenengineering.com/Tech_Support/PDFs/09EA08-2.pdf