This book provides the most advanced, comprehensive, and balanced coverage on the market of the technical and engineering aspects of automated production systems. It covers all the major cutting-edge technologies of production automation and material handling, and how these technologies are used to construct modern manufacturing systems. Manufacturing Operations; Industrial Control Systems; Sensors, Actuators, and Other Control System Components; Numerical Control; Industrial Robotics; Discrete Control Using Programmable Logic Controllers and Personal Computers; Material Transport Systems; Storage Systems; Automatic Data Capture; Single Station Manufacturing Cells; Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing; Flexible Manufacturing Systems; Manual Assembly Lines; Transfer Lines and Similar Automated Manufacturing Systems; Automated Assembly Systems; Statistical Process Control; Inspection Principles and Practices; Inspection Technologies; Product Design and CAD/CAM in the Production System; Process Planning and Concurrent Engineering; Production Planning and Control Systems; and Lean Production and Agile Manufacturing. For anyone interested in Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing.

The publisher, Prentice-Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics
An exploration of the technical and engineering aspects of automated production systems. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (2nd Edition) (Hardcover) This book covers a huge amount of topics related to the automation, organisation and control of production systems. I studied this book for a class, and I think that the quality of especially the quantative methods presented is only fair. Besides that: the content on the automation- and controltopics, is way out of date. Nice book (if you can buy it second hand), but money can buy better books new. Comment | | (Report this)

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