Automating manufacturing operations : the penultimate approach / by William M. Hawkins.
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TextPublisher: New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Momentum Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xv, 291 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781606503690 (ebook)
- 1606503693 (e-book)
- Automation
- artificial intelligence
- automation control systems
- automation engineers
- automation procedures
- automation technologies
- automation war stories
- big data for automation
- cloud computing for automation
- evolution of manufacturing automation
- future of automation
- industrial control
- intelligent machine
- machine control communication
- process automation
- process examples
- process management
- process operators
- virtual machines
- 670.427 23
- T59.5 .H282 2013
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Industrial automation has gone from simple pre-programmed machine instructions to complex general manufacturing, rules-based automation procedures. Unlike other books on industrial automation, this book focuses in on "Manufacturing Operations Systems" (MOPS) in general. It describes their development, implementation and successful management. The book especially addresses the all-important human-machine interface: computer-based manufacturing procedures that are understandable to both computers and humans. Consequently, a language for writing procedures is discussed. It is a language based on Chinese grammar, which is the simplest of all complex human languages. Finally, the design of procedures is discussed as a hierarchy of complexity, along with exception handling at each level. Readers with basic experience using non-procedural automation can greatly benefit from the productivity gains possible from procedural-based automation. They will learn how to create procedural language that is as close to natural language as possible. The reader also will benefit from* A brief overview and history of Manufacturing Operations (MOPS)* Coverage of manufacturing units and regulatory and sequential control* Discussion of Data recording from MOPs and tasks* An overview of Automating Manufacturing Tasks with DCS, PLC, and PCS * Guidelines for setting up an Automated MOPS (AMOPS) project* Guidelines for validating an AMOPS for regulated industries* Examples of applications for both continuous and batch manufacturing
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- Preface -- About the author -- Prologue -- Industrial manufacturing processes -- Process control -- Process operators -- Management -- Automation -- Communications -- Programming -- Engineering -- The future -- Appendix A. Classification of industries -- Appendix B. Artificial intelligence.
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Automation has gone from being a choice to being a necessity to manufacture today's intricate products at the required speeds. This makes automation increasingly a social issue, one that affects people outside the group that designs, controls, and uses smarter, faster machines. The title reflects the fact that it is going to be difficult and perhaps very dangerous, to reach the lights-out factory. Next to ultimate should be as far as we go. Automation systems should be designed to be operated by people.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 18, 2013).
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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