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.
* Covers both analog and digital control using P/PI/PID
controllers and discrete logic control using ladder logic diagrams
and programmable logic controllers
* Contains a brief introduction to model predictive control,
adaptive control, and neural net control
* Covers control from the device/process level up to and including
the production system level
*Contains an introduction to manufacturing systems with the
emphasis on performance measures, flow-line analysis, and line
balancing
* Contains a chapter on equipment interfacing with a brief
introduction on OLE for process control (OPC), the GEM standard,
fieldbuses, and Ethernet
* Material is based on a course with a lab project developed and
taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology
* Coverage is at the introductory level with a minimal amount of
background required to read the text
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