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| Prefaces | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Automation Knowledge Base | |
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| The Automation Practicum | |
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| Basic Principles | |
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| Measurement methods, reliability and asset management | |
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| Training and Education | |
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| Maintenance and repair | |
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| Mechanical Measurements | |
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| Measurement of Flow | |
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| Measurement of Viscosity | |
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| Measurement of Length | |
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| Measurement of Strain | |
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| Measurement of Level and Volume | |
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| Vibration | |
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| Measurement of Force | |
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| Measurement of Density | |
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| Measurement of Pressure | |
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| Measurement of Vacuum | |
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| Particle Sizing | |
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| Fiber optics in sensor instrumentation | |
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| Nanotechnology for sensors | |
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| Microprocessor-based and intelligent transmitters | |
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| Wireless sensors and networks | |
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| Measurement of Temperature and Chemical Composition | |
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| Temperature measurement | |
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| Chemical Analysis- Introduction | |
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| Chemical Analysis- Spectroscopy | |
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| Chemical Analysis- Electrochemical techniques | |
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| Chemical Analysis- Gas analysis | |
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| Chemical Analysis- moisture measurement | |
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| Chemical Analysis- online systems, NeSSI and sampling techniques | |
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| PAT (Process Analyzer Technology initiative) | |
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| Electrical and Radiation Measurements | |
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| Electrical measurements | |
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| Optical measurements | |
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| Nuclear instrumentation technology | |
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| Measurements employing nuclear techniques | |
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| Non Destructive Testing | |
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| Positive Material Identification | |
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| Noise measurement | |
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| Controllers, Actuators and Final Control Elements | |
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| Field controllers, hardware and software | |
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| Advanced Control for the Plant Floor | |
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| Discrete and Sequential Control | |
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| Motion control | |
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| Cables and connectors | |
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| Batch process control | |
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| Valves, actuators and final control elements | |
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| Automation and Control Systems | |
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| Design principles and equipment selection for sequential and discrete automation | |
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| Design and selection of field instruments and final control elements for continuous and batch process control | |
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| Principles of industrial networking and fieldbuses | |
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| SCADA and telemetry systems | |
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| Using field controllers, PLCs and PACs | |
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| Instrument installation and commissioning | |
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| Design principles for control rooms and operator stations | |
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| Selecting and specifying a control system | |
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| Safety instrumented systems and plant floor safety | |
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| Security for the industrial enterprise | |
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| Manufacturing Execution Systems | |
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| Project planning and execution | |
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| Modeling the plant floor and the enterprise | |
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| Data analysis and connection | |
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| Networking for MES | |
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| MES-IT integration | |