Industrial Automation: Circuit Design and ComponentsThe first book to combine all of the various topics relevant to low-cost automation. Practical approach covers methods immediately applicable to industrial problems, showing how to select the most appropriate control method for a given application, then design the necessary circuit. Focuses on the control circuits and devices (electronic, electro-mechanical, or pneumatic) used in small- to mid-size systems. Stress is on on-off (binary) control as opposed to continuous feedback (analog) control. Discusses well-known procedures and their modifications, and a number of original techniques and circuit design methods. Covers ``flexible automation,'' including the use of microcomputers. |
Contents
MOTION ACTUATORS | 1 |
SENSORS | 40 |
INTRODUCTION TO SWITCHING THEORY | 80 |
7 | 87 |
INDUSTRIAL SWITCHING ELEMENTS | 121 |
ELECTRIC LADDER DIAGRAMS | 168 |
Primitive Flow Table | 195 |
SEQUENTIAL SYSTEMS WITH RANDOM INPUTS | 224 |
9 | 323 |
HARDWARE | 338 |
PROGRAMMABLE | 360 |
MICROCOMPUTERS | 409 |
INTRODUCTION TO ASSEMBLY AUTOMATION | 447 |
ROBOTICS AND NUMERICAL CONTROL | 466 |
APPENDIX A GRAFCET METHOD FOR SPECIFYING | 494 |
| 504 | |
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Common terms and phrases
a₁ a₂ actuated applications automatically automation BASIC binary button byte Chapter column combination connected control circuit control system cyclic code cylinder-actuating valves dead band devices digit discussed electric electronic elements encoder end effector example flip-flop fluidic gates GRAFCET gripper Huffman method I/O modules implemented input signals interface Karnaugh map ladder diagram limit switches limit valves linear load logic logic gates Machine Design magnet manufacturers memory merged flow table microcomputers motion one-hot code operation output modules output signals pilot line piston pneumatic circuit pneumatic cylinders POKE port position pressure prime cell problem produces programmable controllers programmable counter pulse pulse shaper R₁ R₂ reed switches relay coil reset resulting return spring robot rotation rung S₁ Section sensors sequence chart shown in Fig slot solenoid solution square steering valves step motor stroke T₂ timer truth table voltage Y₁ y₂
References to this book
Handbook of Design, Manufacturing and Automation Richard C. Dorf,Andrew Kusiak No preview available - 1994 |