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By
Edward Kamen, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, U.S.A.
Included in series
Academic Press Series in Engineering,
Description
Growing numbers of engineering graduates are finding employment in the control systems area with applications to manufacturing. To be
properly prepared for such positions, it is desirable that the students be exposed to the topics of process control, discrete logic control
and the fundamentals of manufacturing. Presently there is no existing textbook and/or reference that combine together process control,
discrete logic control and the fundamentals of manufacturing. This is a book that fills that gap.
This book integrates together the theory
with a number of illustrative examples. Constructive procedures will be given for designing controllers and manufacturing lines, including
methods for designing digital controllers, fuzzy logic controllers and adaptive controllers, and methods for the design of the flow of
operations in a manufacturing line. One chapter will be devoted to equipment interfacing and computer communications, with the focus
on fieldbuses, device drivers and computer networks. There are no existing control-oriented textbooks that bring this material into the
picture, although interfacing and communications are becoming a bigger and bigger part of the overall control problem.
Audience
All electrical, chemical, mechanical and industrial engineers or other professionals involved with manufacturing, industrial processes and controls; junior- or senior-level engineering students.
Contents
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.
z-Transform. Design
of Digital Controllers. An Alternate Design Approach. Problems.
Model Predictive, Adaptive, and Neural Net Controllers.
Model Predictive Controllers. 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.
Appendix A: Further Reading. Appendix B: Laboratory Project.
Process Demonstrator. Project Description.
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Hardbound, 230 pages, publication date: JUN-1999
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-394850-2
ISBN-10: 0-12-394850-9
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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