An Introductory Guide to the Control of Machinery
Published on 1. January 1998
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-86058-068-0 (ISBN)
Description
This text provides the practising engineer with a review of the current techniques and applications of machine control. The control of machines is essential in the manufacturing process in order to produce products with more speed, efficiency and accuracy. The range of machinery dependent upon control by a dedicated computer is very broad, encompassing sheet metal feeding machines, operating at a few cycles per minute to textile machines, some parts of which rotate at a hundred thousand revolutions per minute.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86058-068-0 (9781860580680)
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Person
Keith Foster is the author of An Introductory Guide to the Control of Machinery, published by Wiley.
Content
Sequential operation of machines; programmable logic controllers (PLCs); computer control; dynamics and stability; multi-variable systems; simulation; getting processors to work together; fuzzy logic; neural networks.