*For advanced undergraduate/ *graduate-level courses in Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. This exploration of the technical and engineering aspects of automated production systems provides the most advanced, comprehensive, and balanced coverage of the subject of any text on the market. It covers all the major cutting-edge technologies of production automation and material handling, and how these technologies are used to construct modern manufacturing systems.
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An exploration of the technical and engineering aspects of automated production systems.
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NEW ORGANIZATION. The second edition consists of five parts, following two introductory chapters:
- I. Automation and control technologies: industrial computer control, control system components, numerical control, industrial robotics, programmable logic controllers.
- II. Material handling technologies: conveyor systems, automated guided vehicle systems, automated storage systems, automatic identification and data capture.
- III. Manufacturing systems: single station cells, group technology, flexible manufacturing systems, assembly lines, transfer lines.
- IV. Quality control systems: statistical process control, inspection principles and technologies.
- V. Manufacturing support systems: CAD/CAM, process planning, production planning, production planning and control, lean production and agile manufacturing.
TEXT FEATURES
- Expanded coverage of automation fundamentals, numerical control programming, group technology, flexible manufacturing systems, material handling and storage, quality control and inspection, inspection technologies, programmable logic controllers.
- New chapters or sections on manufacturing systems, single station manufacturing systems, mixed-model assembly line analysis, quality assurance and statistical process control, Taguchi methods, inspection principles and technologies, concurrent engineering, automatic identification and data collection, lean and agile manufacturing.
- Higher quantitative and engineering content in the text with more equations and example problems
- More quantitative problems on more topics: 385 problems in the new edition, 125 more than the 1987 edition.
- Historical notes describing the development and historical background of many of the automation technologies.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)
Lacking important concepts from 1st edition that should have been in the chapters on production mathematical models. (Scrap, Time In Plant, etc.) Good descriptions of general machine automation processes. Good overview of NC, CNC machining, covering more in these chapters than some texts associated with only this topic. Good overview chapters of industrial robotics, PLC control and programming, in-plant material handling, manufacturing system schemes, assembly systems, quality control, Statisics, inspection and planning. Overall a very capable text. When coupled with a well developed laboratory, would be a text for a very complete college level Industrial Automation course.
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One of the best IE books,
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This review is from: Automation, Production Systems and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (Hardcover)
I sincerely believe that this book has been one of the best in its field. I just hope that Prof. Groover will publish another edition of this book reflecting the current changes in the manufacturing world.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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High quantity, but average quality,
This review is from: Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)
This book covers a huge amount of topics related to the automation, organisation and control of production systems.
I studied this book for a class, and I think that the quality of especially the quantative methods presented is only fair. Besides that: the content on the automation- and controltopics, is way out of date. Nice book (if you can buy it second hand), but money can buy better books new.
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- Product Design Methods and Practices by Henry W. Stoll in Back Matter
- Manufacturing Systems Control Design: A Matrix-based Approach (Advances in Industrial Control) by Stjepan Bogdan on page 17
- Simulation Using Promodel (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Industrial Engineering and Management Science) by Charles Harrell on page 296
- Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing: Methodologies and Applications (Automation and Production Systems. Methodologies and Applications, Vol 1) by Ali K. Kamrani on page 355
- Rapid Prototyping: Principles and Applications by Rafiq I. Noorani on page 309
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