Manufacturing Automation At The Crossroads

Author : Louis-François Pau
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789051991376
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing Automation at the Crossroads written by Louis-François Pau and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information technology has become an important discipline for the manufacturing industry. However, the complexity of modern production has made manufacturing dependent on a rapidly developing computer-based support technology. The growth of a multitude of data-solutions and the use of incompatible products on different factory locations have led to so-called islands of automation. Such islands may be of considerable individual value, but pose integration problems if one wishes to integrate factory functions. The complexity of the modern factory sets stringent requirements to the systems integrator.

Author : Jimmie Browne
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789051992960
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book IT and Manufacturing Partnerships written by Jimmie Browne and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this book is the development of partnerships between manufacturing companies, their suppliers and customers and the facilitating of these partnerships by information technology and telecommunications. In the 1980s the emphasis in manufacturing was on integration 'within the four walls' of the manufacturing plant. The main issues facing researchers and industrial practitioners at the time were CAD/CAM integration, integration of production planning and control systems, the development of sophisticated computer driven manufacturing, assembly and testing systems and their control through sophisticated shop floor control systems. Today the emphasis has moved towards supply chain management (integration of the supply chain through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Just in Time (JIT) or Quick Response approaches) and customer driven manufacturing. This includes the integration of manufacturing and distribution/logistics planning and control systems. Consequently, success for manufacturing companies in the 1990s requires closer collaboration with customers, suppliers and distributors than in the past. Information Technology and the emergence of a powerful global information infrastructure enable manufacturing industries throughout Europe to develop collaborative partnership across the value chain. Successful collaboration is achieved by the sharing of information at all phases of the business cycle, across the supply chain and across national and international boundaries. The need to collaborate across the supply chain has particular consequences for small and medium sized manufacturing (SMEs) companies, many of whom are compared and subassembly suppliers to the larger companies. Indeed the collaboration between supplier SMEs and their large customers has, in many cases, gone beyond JIT supply of components based on orders delivered, processed and frequently paid for using EDI technology and now extends to joint design and engineering activity. Collaboration between manufacturing companies across the supply chain is therefore placing increasing pressure on the developers of the global information superhighway and on the developers of CAD and other engineering software to ensure compliance with emerging standards, such as STEP, in order to allow intercompany collaboration. These are the issues which form the background of this book. The book is aimed at those researchers and industrial practitioners interested in learning about recent progress in manufacturing systems research and application. Mature results emerging from the ESPRIT-IiM programme are presented. Readers: Manufacturing managers an engineers, Quality/process engineers, IT suppliers/vendors, Academic researchers, Technology transfer centres and Industrial associations.

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Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural America at the Crossroads written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jayanta Kumar Banerjee
Publisher : Palibrio
ISBN 13 : 1463388586
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Crossroads of Emotion and Reason written by Jayanta Kumar Banerjee and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illusion has many real examples in nature. This working table I am writing on, a piece of wood, is so firm, so rigid, so static that it is hard to believe that literally trillions of electrons in it are moving almost at the speed of light. Its rigidity is an illusion, like a magic. This universe is a Magic Kingdom in the Disney World!

Author : University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
Publisher : University of Regina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889771567
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farm Communities at the Crossroads written by University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an outgrowth of a conference that analyzed transformations in farming & farm communities and discussed what might be done to achieve a more socially responsible development. It contains papers that address the pace of change in work & rural society which has proceeded so rapidly that every new development appears to be a cross-roads in which something precious is in danger of being left behind, but something valuable may be gained by taking the right route. Topics of the papers include the importance of work, the family farm, community building, knowledge & skills in the farm community, coping with the farm crisis, land reform, short line railways, farm co-operatives, agricultural chemicals & agribusiness, sustainable alternatives for agriculture, game farming, co-operative intervention in the farm machinery sector, conservation tillage, globalization & agricultural policy, agrarian radicalism on the prairies, and farm income support systems. Includes index.

Author : Nils Mårtensson
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789051994261
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing the Ways We Work written by Nils Mårtensson and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the effects of an increasing use of information technology, IT, in manufacturing. Mainly, focus is on the changes in organisation, in working procedures and in the demands on the capabilities of the personnel, both on the shop floor and the engineering and management levels. It disseminates information from the research and development carried out under ESPRIT's Integration in Manufacturing domain as well as from other activities in similar domains in industry and academia. A particular focus is on giving an overview and resume of work undertaken in the Third and Fourth Research Framework Programmes of ESPRIT.

Author : Francisco J. G. Silva
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031381653
Total Pages : 1237 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Establishing Bridges for More Sustainable Manufacturing Systems written by Francisco J. G. Silva and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 1237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports on cutting-edge research and developments in manufacturing, giving a special emphasis to solutions fostering automation, sustainability and health, safety and well-being at work. Topics cover manufacturing process analysis and optimization, supply chain management, quality control, as well as human factors and logistics. They highlight the role and advantages of intelligent systems and technologies, discussing current best-practices and challenges to cope with in the near future. Based on proceedings of the 32nd edition of the International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, FAIM 2023, held on June 18–22, 2023, in Porto, Portugal, this second volume of a 2-volume set provides academics and professionals with extensive information on innovative strategies for industrial management in the era of industry 5.0.

Author : Jørgen K. H. Knudsen
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789051991949
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharing CIM Solutions written by Jørgen K. H. Knudsen and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the result of the proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference '94: ESPRIT CIM-Europe. It reports on the results in development and implementation of CIM technologies. The key technologies which are being developed, and the results emerging from the collaborative projects, have contributed to the establishment of an integrative approach to manufacturing problems which embraces engineering, logistics, process automation, business functions, organizational and environmental concerns.

Author : Radovan Richta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351711075
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civilization at the Crossroads : Social and Human Implications of the Scientific and Technological Revolution (International Arts and Sciences Press) written by Radovan Richta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 1968

Author : William M. Hawkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781606503676
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Automating Manufacturing Operations written by William M. Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial automation has gone from simple pre-programmed machine instructions to complex general manufacturing, rules-based automation procedures. Unlike other books on industrial automation, this book focuses in on 'Manufacturing Operations Systems' (MOPS) in general. It describes their development, implementation and successful management. The book especially addresses the all-important human-machine interface: computer-based manufacturing procedures that are understandable to both computers and humans. Consequently, a language for writing procedures is discussed. It is a language based on Chinese grammar, which is the simplest of all complex human languages. Finally, the design of procedures is discussed as a hierarchy of complexity, along with exception handling at each level. Readers with basic experience using non-procedural automation can greatly benefit from the productivity gains possible from procedural-based automation. They will learn how to create procedural language that is as close to natural language as possible. The reader also will benefit from: A brief overview and history of Manufacturing Operations (MOPS) Coverage of manufacturing units and regulatory and sequential control Discussion of Data recording from MOPs and tasks An overview of Automating Manufacturing Tasks with DCS, PLC, and PCS Guidelines for setting up an Automated MOPS (AMOPS) project Guidelines for validating an AMOPS for regulated industries Examples of applications for both continuous and batch manufacturing