The Art of Manufacturing: Overcome control challenges for increasing efficiency in manufacturing using real-world examples

Demystify automation and solve control-related problems with the help of real-world products and case studies put together by two industrial automation experts

Key Features

- Real life applications and case studies of automation curated from authors rich experience
- Overcome tricky automation and control issues in the manufacturing process
- Implement automation in manufacturing for higher efficiency and productivity in the industry

Book Description

Engineering disciplines focus mainly on programming control systems, while the challenges they overcome or their industry applications largely go uncovered, leaving a huge gap between the theory and industry practices. This leads to engineers learning about subjects without actually understanding their purpose and entering the industry needing months of training.

The Art of Manufacturing cuts across pedantic theory and reaches practical applications. You'll begin your learning journey by starting from the product and moving backward to the manufacturing landscape, factories, machines, and finally to the automation and control challenges faced in manufacturing. The book builds on the authors' valuable on-field experience, providing a detailed view of the manufacturing of real-world products, while simultaneously providing various analogies and references to daily tasks. As you advance through the chapters, you'll work on interesting control problems and find out how to overcome them in applications. The concluding chapters offer you a sneak peek into the future of automation and factories.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to relate a real-world product with an associated control challenge and discover ways to overcome these challenges.

What you will learn

- Understand the role of machines, factories, and plants in manufacturing a product
- Explore the manufacturing landscape and its continuous evolution
- Use practical applications to mitigate control challenges in manufacturing
- Resolve implementation challenges of various applications in a machine
- Discover how humans and automation work together in factories
- Find out how to solve the same control challenge in different ways
- Discover links between Industry 3.0, Industry 4.0, digitalization, and lean manufacturing

Who this book is for

The book will interest an inquisitive student of engineering (electrical, electronics, mechatronics, E&TC) who wishes to explore beyond the classroom textbook content. It will also serve as a teacher's handbook helping the lecturer bring the flair of industry into the classroom. Moreover, it will be useful for a practicing engineer, with cross-disciplinary knowledge that is needed to manufacture any real product. You must have basic knowledge of electronics, electrical, and mechatronics (engineering).

解密自動化並通過兩位工業自動化專家提供的真實產品和案例研究來解決與控制相關的問題。

主要特點：
- 從作者豐富的經驗中精選出的自動化的實際應用和案例研究。
- 克服製造過程中棘手的自動化和控制問題。
- 在製造業中實施自動化，提高效率和生產力。

書籍描述：
工程學科主要關注編程控制系統，而他們所克服的挑戰或其行業應用往往被忽視，這在理論和行業實踐之間存在著巨大的差距。這導致工程師在學習有關主題時並不真正理解其目的，進入行業需要數月的培訓。

《製造的藝術》跳脫了學究式的理論，達到了實際應用。您將從產品開始，逆向到製造環境、工廠、機器，最終到製造中面臨的自動化和控制挑戰。本書基於作者寶貴的實地經驗，提供了對實際產品製造的詳細視角，同時提供了各種類比和對日常任務的參考。隨著您進一步閱讀，您將解決有趣的控制問題，並找到如何在應用中克服這些問題的方法。最後幾章將讓您一窺自動化和工廠的未來。

通過閱讀本書，您將能夠將實際產品與相關的控制挑戰聯繫起來，並發現克服這些挑戰的方法。

您將學到什麼：
- 了解機器、工廠和廠區在製造產品中的角色。
- 探索製造環境及其不斷演變。
- 使用實際應用來解決製造中的控制挑戰。
- 解決機器中各種應用的實施挑戰。
- 發現人類和自動化在工廠中如何協同工作。
- 找出解決同一控制挑戰的不同方法。
- 發現工業3.0、工業4.0、數字化和精益製造之間的聯繫。

本書適合對工程學（電氣、電子、機電、電子與通信）有好奇心的學生，他們希望探索課堂教材之外的內容。它還可以作為教師手冊，幫助講師將行業的風采帶入課堂。此外，對於需要跨學科知識來製造任何實際產品的實踐工程師也很有用。您必須具備基本的電子、電氣和機電（工程）知識。

1. Product Information Document
2. Automation Is a Part of our Daily Lives
3. The Art of Temperature Control
4. Tension Control: Managing Material Tension
5. Level Control – Controlling the Level of Liquid to Avoid Drying Up or Spilling Over
6. Motion Control: Control, Synchronization, and Interpolation of Axes for Accuracy and Precision
7. Material Dispensing Control
8. The Interplay of Humans-Machines-Automation
9. Automation – Dramatically Helping Avoid Human Intervention
10. Automation Can Build a Super-Organism with Awareness
11. What's Next?

1. 產品資訊文件
2. 自動化是我們日常生活的一部分
3. 溫度控制的藝術
4. 張力控制：管理材料張力
5. 液位控制 - 控制液體的水平，避免乾涸或溢出
6. 運動控制：控制、同步和插值軸以達到準確和精密
7. 材料分配控制
8. 人-機器-自動化的相互作用
9. 自動化 - 大幅幫助避免人為干預
10. 自動化可以建立具有意識的超級有機體
11. 下一步是什麼？