The art of manufacturing : overcome control challenges for increasing efficiency in manufacturing using real-world examples

The art of manufacturing overcome control challenges for increasing efficiency in manufacturing using real-world examples

Demystify automation and solve control-related problems with the help of real-world products and case studies put together by two industrial automation experts Key Features Real life applications and case studies of automation curated from authors rich experience Overcome tricky automation and contr...

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Otros Autores: Deshpande, Ninad, author (author), Pothukuchi, Sivaram, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited [2023]
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Manufacturing processes > Automation.
Manufacturing processes > Automatic control.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720313806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Foreword
  • Contributors
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Part 1: Introduction to the Manufacturing Landscape and Innovative Automation in Everyday Life
  • Chapter 1: Automation Is a Part of Our Daily Lives
  • Understanding our daily rituals and the products we use
  • Probing how consumer demands and needs are drivers
  • Analyzing the elements of a factory - production lines and machines
  • Continuous process versus discrete process
  • Mass/batch production versus customized production
  • Inside a factory
  • Analyzing the elements of automation - components and structures
  • Control, automation, and data technologies
  • Automation components
  • Summary
  • Chapter 2: The Art of Temperature Control
  • Highlighting the need for temperature control
  • The challenge and need for temperature control
  • The control challenge
  • An overview of an application (plastic)
  • Overview of another application (pharma)
  • Overcoming the control challenge
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3: Tension Control - Managing Material Tension
  • The need for tension control
  • Control challenge
  • An overview of an application
  • An overview of textile applications
  • An overview of newspaper printing
  • Overcoming the control challenge (tension control)
  • Ways to measure tension
  • Varying the tension
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4: Level Control - Controlling the Level of Liquid to Avoid Drying Up or Spilling Over
  • The need for level control
  • Challenge and the need for level control
  • Control challenge
  • Overview of applications
  • Overview of the automotive application
  • Overcoming the control challenge of level control
  • Overview of a boiler application
  • Summary
  • Chapter 5: Motion Control - Control, Synchronization, and Interpolation of Axes for Accuracy and Precision
  • The need for motion control.
  • Control challenges (motion control)
  • Overview of an application
  • Overcoming the control challenge (motion control)
  • Summary
  • Chapter 6: Material Dispensing Control
  • The need for quantity control
  • Control challenge (quantity control - weight or volume)
  • Overview of an application
  • Overcoming the control challenge (quantity control - weight or volume)
  • Summary
  • Part 2: Automation and Humans
  • Chapter 7: The Interplay of Humans-Machines-Automation
  • Humans and machines
  • The need for interaction with machines
  • Interaction while in operation
  • Interaction while the machine is constructed
  • Interaction at the design and testing stages
  • Interaction at the supply chain and procurement stages
  • Programming platforms and programming languages
  • IEC 61131-3 languages
  • Various formats of the application software
  • Data from the process - values, alarms, and events
  • Elementary operator interface - switches, dials, and meters
  • Supervisory control
  • Plantwide information
  • Digital dashboards
  • SCADA systems
  • DCSs
  • Advanced functions
  • Mobile first - control from anywhere
  • Summary
  • Chapter 8: Automation - Dramatically Helping Avoid Human Intervention
  • The need to reduce human intervention
  • The control challenge in designing machines without supervision
  • Application examples
  • Continuous processes
  • No-second-chance missions
  • A high cost of error
  • How the control challenge is solved
  • Stored program controllers
  • Maintenance techniques
  • Systems with redundancy
  • Fail-safe configurations
  • Graceful degradation
  • Lights-out factory
  • Almost-human machines
  • Summary
  • Chapter 9: Automation Can Build a Super-Organism with Awareness
  • A blueprint of automation with awareness
  • Automation as a super-organism
  • Automation and awareness
  • Technological advances to help realize the blueprint.
  • Controller chips are getting smaller and faster
  • Internet of things - controllers can talk to each other
  • Pervasive computing
  • Cloud and infinite processing power
  • Augmented reality
  • Data analytics
  • Pattern recognition
  • Classification
  • Machine learning
  • Robotics
  • Applications where such automation can be deployed
  • Quality control
  • Supply and logistics coordination
  • Safety
  • Smart factory
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Challenges ahead
  • Summary
  • Chapter 10: What's Next?
  • The question
  • Need for the question
  • Can we simply extrapolate?
  • Is it too much of a good thing?
  • When do we call a stop to it?
  • What are the challenges?
  • Improving functional capability
  • Improving interaction
  • Which functionalities are to be avoided?
  • Improving security
  • How could automation address the challenges?
  • Quantum computing
  • Low power consumption
  • Context awareness
  • Unobtrusive functioning
  • More modes of command input: vocal, visual, mental
  • Updates on the fly
  • Security
  • Solving human problems
  • Summary
  • Index
  • About Packt
  • Other Books You May Enjoy.

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