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).

Table of Contents

1. Automation Is a Part of our Daily Lives
2. The Art of Temperature Control
3. Tension Control: Managing Material Tension
4. Level Control
5. Motion Control: Control, Synchronization, and Interpolation of Axes for Accuracy and Precision
6. Material Dispensing Control
7. The Interplay of Humans-Machines-Automation
8. Automation
9. Automation Can Build a Super-Organism with Awareness
10. What's Next?

Ninad Deshpande graduated in E&Tc Engineering from the University of Pune and has around 15 years’ experience in the automation industry. He completed his MBA – Executive from SIBM. He has worked in different areas of the automation industry such as application development, testing, R&D, technology marketing, marketing, corporate communication, Global product management, and market research. After heading Marketing and Corporate Communications for B&R India (A member of the ABB Group), he became the Global Product Manager – cybersecurity in B&R Austria. Presently he is working as a Co-Founder & CEO at Sceptertech Digital. In 2019, World Marketing Congress awarded him with the “Most influential Global Marketing Leader” award.

P.V. Sivaram graduated in Electronics Engineering from IIT-Madras in 1976 and began his career at BARC. He moved to automation in fields like Power T&D, Communications, and Power Plants in an MNC. He was the founder CEO of B&R Industrial Automation from 1996 until his retirement in 2018. He has hands-on experience in Distributed Systems, SCADA, DCS, and microcontroller applications and supervised projects in all types of machines – plastic, textile, pharma, packaging. His current mission is to prepare people for living in a digital world. He is convinced that technologies need to be explored and driven into applications by youngsters. Sivaram conducts training courses including “Digital Transformation for every man” and Digital Champions.