CADE SIMU AS A SIMULATION AND LEARNING TOOL FOR PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS

Abstract

This document presents the CADE SIMU software as a tool for testing control and power schemes of electric motors manipulated from programmable logic controllers (PLC), it should be noted that the use of software simulators type in higher education help the future engineer to stage the real behavior of a system, In this case it is used in the subject of  fundamentals of control and automation of the Mechanical Engineering program at the Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander Ocaña as part of the methodology is the use of simulation software as support for learning and solving cases in the area of Industrial automation, this software allows to explore, analyze, understand, correlate and experiment in the virtual world solutions that can later be applied to solve a real problem.