Manufacturing and Automation Systems: Techniques and Technologies

✍ Scribed by Cornelius T. Leondes

• Publisher: Academic Press,Elsevier
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 429
• Series: Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications 46
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection of papers, aimed at electrical and electronics engineers - especially those dealing with manufacturing and automated systems - covers recent advances in the field of modern control theory

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Manufacturing and Automation Systems: Techniques and Technologies, Part 2 of 5
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
Chapter 1. Real Time Control Software for Manufacturing Systems
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. The Manufacturing Hierarchy
3. Case Study: Plate Milling Saw
4. Operator Interface
5. Embedded Control Systems
6. Multitasking/Multiprocessing
7. Multitasking Concepts
8. Multiprocessing Concepts
9. Computing Environment
10. Selected Bibliography
CHAPTER 2. REDUCTION OF MANUFACTURING COST THROUGH MATERIAL HANDLING
I. INTRODUCTION. Ii. material handling interaction with other aspects ofmanufacturingiii. cost reduction through integrated design concept
iv. reduction of handling cost through key components
v. unit load routing to reduce manufacturing cost
vi. a palletizing and warehouse loading problem
vii. additional recommended readings
viii. conclusion
ix. references
chapter 3. preliminary system design for flexible manufacturing systems (fms): essential elements, analysis tools, and techniques
i. introduction
ii. important elements to consider in preliminaryfms design
iii. general analysis techniques. IV. SPECIFIC PRELIMINARY DESIGN TECHNIQUES ANDANALYSISREFERENCES
Chapter 4. Mechatronics Techniques inManufacturing and Automated Systems
I. INTRODUCTION
II. DEFINING MECHATRONICS
III. WHAT DOES MECHATRONICS ACCOMPLISH
IV. MECHATRONIC APPLICATIONS
V. CASE STUDY --
THE ASSEMBLY ROBOT
VI. DOCKING ROBOT CONCEPT --
AN ALTERNATIVE DESIGN
VII. DESIGN OF THE GRASPTM ASSEMBLY ROBOT
VIII. DESIGN LIMITATIONS
IX. CONCLUSIONS
X. REFERENCES
CHAPTER 5. TECHNIQUES FOR MACHINE LAYOUT OPTIMIZATION IN MANUFACTURING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. MODELS FOR THE LAYOUT PROBLEM. 3. TECHNIQUES FOR SOLVING THE LAYOUT PROBLEM4. CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Chapter 6. A Reference Model, Design Approach, and Development Illustration toward Hierarchical Real-Time System Control for Coal Mining Operations
1. INTRODUCTION
2. A GENERIC REFERENCE MODEL
3. The RCS Task Decomposition Methodology
4. METHODOLOGY APPLICATION: THE CONTEXT DEFINITIONAND THE HIERARCHY DEVELOPMENT
5. METHODOLOGY APPLICATION: TASK ANALYSIS
6. METHODOLOGY APPLICATION: THE RCS PLANS
7. DISCUSSION ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OPERATORCONTROL INTERFACE LEVELS
8. COMPUTER PROGRAM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION. 9. SUMMARYACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES
Chapter 7. Human Supervisory Control of Predominantly Automated Manufacturing Processes:Conceptual Issues and Empirical Investigations
Background
GT-FMS Structure
Direct Manipulation Technology: Assessment of its Utility for FMS Operators
Decision Making of a Systems Manager of a Flexible Manufacturing System
Distributed Decision Making in Complex Systems
Conclusion
References
CHAPTER 8. TECHNIQUES FOR THE INTEGRATION OFMANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS ON CIM SYSTEMS
3. FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION OF INSIM.