The Art of Manufacturing

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Foreword
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Introduction to the Manufacturing Landscape and Innovative Automation in Everyday Life
Chapter 1: Automation Is a Part of Our Daily Lives
	Understanding our daily rituals and the products we use
	Probing how consumer demands and needs are drivers
	Analyzing the elements of a factory – production lines and machines
		Continuous process versus discrete process
		Mass/batch production versus customized production
		Inside a factory
	Analyzing the elements of automation – components and structures
		Control, automation, and data technologies
		Automation components
	Summary
Chapter 2: The Art of Temperature Control
	Highlighting the need for temperature control
		The challenge and need for temperature control
	The control challenge
	An overview of an application (plastic)
	Overview of another application (pharma)
	Overcoming the control challenge
	Summary
Chapter 3: Tension Control – Managing Material Tension
	The need for tension control
	Control challenge
	An overview of an application
		An overview of textile applications
		An overview of newspaper printing
	Overcoming the control challenge (tension control)
		Ways to measure tension
		Varying the tension
	Summary
Chapter 4: Level Control – Controlling the Level of Liquid to Avoid Drying Up or Spilling Over
	The need for level control
		Challenge and the need for level control
	Control challenge
	Overview of applications
		Overview of the automotive application
	Overcoming the control challenge of level control
		Overview of a boiler application
	Summary
Chapter 5: Motion Control – Control, Synchronization, and Interpolation of Axes for Accuracy and Precision
	The need for motion control
	Control challenges (motion control)
	Overview of an application
	Overcoming the control challenge (motion control)
	Summary
Chapter 6: Material Dispensing Control
	The need for quantity control
	Control challenge (quantity control – weight or volume)
	Overview of an application
	Overcoming the control challenge (quantity control – weight or volume)
	Summary
Part 2: Automation and Humans
Chapter 7: The Interplay of Humans-Machines-Automation
	Humans and machines
	The need for interaction with machines
		Interaction while in operation
		Interaction while the machine is constructed
		Interaction at the design and testing stages
		Interaction at the supply chain and procurement stages
	Programming platforms and programming languages
		IEC 61131-3 languages
		Various formats of the application software
	Data from the process – values, alarms, and events
		Elementary operator interface – switches, dials, and meters
	Supervisory control
		Plantwide information
		Digital dashboards
		SCADA systems
		DCSs
		Advanced functions
	Mobile first – control from anywhere
	Summary
Chapter 8: Automation – Dramatically Helping Avoid Human Intervention
	The need to reduce human intervention
	The control challenge in designing machines without supervision
	Application examples
		Continuous processes
		No-second-chance missions
		A high cost of error
	How the control challenge is solved
		Stored program controllers
		Maintenance techniques
		Systems with redundancy
		Fail-safe configurations
		Graceful degradation
		Lights-out factory
		Almost-human machines
	Summary
Chapter 9: Automation Can Build a Super-Organism with Awareness
	A blueprint of automation with awareness
		Automation as a super-organism
		Automation and awareness
	Technological advances to help realize the blueprint
		Controller chips are getting smaller and faster
		Internet of things – controllers can talk to each other
		Pervasive computing
		Cloud and infinite processing power
		Augmented reality
		Data analytics
		Pattern recognition
		Classification
		Machine learning
		Robotics
	Applications where such automation can be deployed
		Quality control
		Supply and logistics coordination
		Safety
		Smart factory
		Autonomous vehicles
		Challenges ahead
	Summary
Chapter 10: What’s Next?
	The question
	Need for the question
		Can we simply extrapolate?
		Is it too much of a good thing?
		When do we call a stop to it?
	What are the challenges?
		Improving functional capability
		Improving interaction
		Which functionalities are to be avoided?
		Improving security
	How could automation address the challenges?
		Quantum computing
		Low power consumption
		Context awareness
		Unobtrusive functioning
		More modes of command input: vocal, visual, mental
		Updates on the fly
		Security
	Solving human problems
	Summary
Index
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