Robots and manufacturing automation

Author(s)

• Asfahl, C. Ray

Bibliographic Information

Robots and manufacturing automation

C. Ray Asfahl

Wiley, c1985

Note

Bibliography: p.441-445

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

An applications-orientated text designed for upper-level undergraduates in industrial engineering, technology and management. It surveys the wide spectrum of automated systems available to improve manufacturing productivity, including robots, numerical control machines, programmable controllers, computer controllers and microprocessor-based automated systems. Includes examples of manufacturing discrete items as well as those requiring continuous processes, case studies, solved problems and end-of-chapter exercises.

Table of Contents

• Getting Ready to Automate
• Building Blocks of Automation
• Mechanization of Parts Handling
• Automatic Production and Assembly
• Numerical Control and CAD/CAM
• Industrial Robots
• Teaching Robots to Do Work
• Robot Implementation
• Industrial Applications of Robots
• Industrial Logic Control Systems
• Logic Diagramming
• Programmable Controllers
• On-Line Computer Control
• Microprocessors
• Research Trends and Ethics
• References
• Appendixes
• Case Study
• Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA00022492
• ISBN:
  • 0471802123
• LCCN: 84023706
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 490 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : TS191.8
  • DC19 : 670.42/7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Robots, Industrial