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Industrial Controls and Manufacturing

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ISBN-10: 0123948509

ISBN-13: 9780123948502

Edition: 1999

Authors: E. W. Kamen

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This text contains a collection of methods and techniques for designing controllers for a wide range of applications in industry and manufacturing.
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Book details

List price: $106.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication date: 7/15/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 230
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
Manufacturing Fundamentals
Introduction to Control
Problems
Example of a Process Control Problem
Continuous-Variable Control
The Laplace Transform
Return to Level Control
Effect of Output Flow
Problems
Modeling of Continuous-Variable Processes
Transfer Function Representation
System Modeling Based on the Step Response
Input Delay
Problems
Control of Continuous-Variable Processes
Closed-Loop Configuration
Tracking a Step Reference
PI Controller
PID Controller
Effect of a Disturbance
Processes with Input Delay
Problems
Digital Control
The z Transform
Design of Digital Controllers
An Alternate Design Approach
Problems
Model Predictive, Adaptive, and Neural Net Controllers
Model Predictive Controllers
Direct Adaptive Control
Neural Net Controllers
Problems
Discrete Logic Control
State Diagram Representation
Boolean Logic Equations
Generation of Boolean Logic Equations
Problems
Ladder Logic Diagrams and PLC Implementation
Electrical Ladder Logic Diagrams
Software Ladder Logic Diagrams
PLC Implementation
Bottle-Filling Operation
Problems
Manufacturing Systems
Performance Measures
Flow-Line Analysis
Flow-Line Analysis with Machine Breakdowns
Line Balancing
Problems
Production Control
Production Control Schemes
Pull Systems
A Push-and-Pull System
Problems
Equipment Interfacing and Communications
Equipment Interfacing
Communications
Web-Based Studies
Further Reading
Laboratory Project
Process Demonstrator
Project Description