Industrial automation : hands on /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lamb, Frank (Author)
Corporate Author: McGraw-Hill Companies
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2013]
Edition:First edition.
Series:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A. About the author
  • B. Preface
  • 1. Automation and manufacturing
  • Automation
  • 2. Important concepts
  • Analog and digital
  • Input and output (data)
  • Numbering systems
  • Electrical power
  • Pneumatics and hydraulics
  • Continuous, synchronous, and asynchronous processes
  • Documentation and file formats
  • Safety
  • Overall equipment effectiveness
  • Electrostatic discharge
  • 3. Components and hardware
  • Controllers
  • Operator interfaces
  • Sensors
  • Power control, distribution, and discrete controls
  • Actuators and movement
  • Ac and dc motors
  • Mechanisms and machine elements
  • Structure and framing
  • 4. Machine systems
  • Conveyors
  • Indexers and synchronous machines
  • Part feeders
  • Robots and robotics
  • 5. Process systems and automated machinery
  • Chemical processing
  • Food and beverage processing
  • Packaging
  • Web handling and converting
  • Metal, plastic, ceramic, and glass processing
  • Assembly machines
  • Inspection and test machines
  • 6. Software
  • Programming software
  • Design software
  • Analysis software
  • Office software
  • Scada and data acquisition
  • Databases and database programming
  • Enterprise software
  • 7. Occupations and trades
  • Engineering
  • Trades
  • 8. Industrial and factory business systems
  • Automation-related businesses
  • Departments and functions
  • Lean manufacturing
  • Systemization
  • 9. Machine and system design
  • Requirements
  • Quoting
  • Procurement
  • Design
  • Fabrication
  • Start-up and debug
  • Fat and sat
  • Installation
  • Support
  • 10. Applications
  • Binder-processing machine
  • Crystal measurement
  • Smartbench
  • Sagger load station
  • Tray handlers
  • Cotton classing system
  • A. Ascii table
  • B. Ampacity
  • C. Motor sizing
  • D. Nema enclosure tables
  • E. Manufacturers, machine builders, and integrators
  • Electrical enclosures
  • General control products
  • Mechanical and structural
  • Motion control
  • Pneumatics and hydraulics
  • Sensors
  • Software
  • Vision
  • Machine builders and integrators
  • F. Thermocouples
  • Types
  • Platinum (types b, r, and s)
  • Chromel?gold/iron
  • G. Bibliography.