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Industrial Automation
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Industrial Automation is a discipline that includes knowledge and expertise from various branches of engineering including electrical, electronics, chemical, mechanical, communications and more recently computer and software engineering. Automation & Control by its very nature demands a cross fertilization of these faculties.
Industrial Automation Engineers have always drawn new technologies and implemented original or enhanced versions to meet their requirements. As the range of technology diversifies the demand on the innovative ability of these Engineers has increased.
IDC Technologies has been in the business of bringing together the domain gurus and the practicing engineers under an umbrella called training. The sum of the knowledge that IDC Technologies has acquired over many years has now given it an opportunity to compile this comprehensive hand book for the reference of every automation engineer.
The breadth and depth of Industrial Automation is enormous and justice cannot be expected from a book of a few hundred pages. This book comprises over 1200 pages of useful, hard hitting information from the trenches on industrial automation. This book delivers a critical blend of knowledge and skills, covering technology in control and instrumentation, industry analysis and forecasts, leadership and management - everything that is relevant to a modern control and instrumentation engineer. Good management, financial and business skills are also provided in these chapters. These highly practical materials provide you with solid skills in this often neglected area for control and instrumentation engineers.
This book was originally written for UK and other European users and contains many references to the products and standards in those countries. We have made an effort to include IEEE/ANSI/NEMA references wherever possible. The general protection approach and theoretical principles are however universally applicable.
The terms ‘earth’ as well as ‘ground’ have both been in general use to describe the common power/signal reference point interchangeably around the world in the Electro-technical terminology. While the USA and other North American countries favor the use of the term ‘ground’, European countries including the UK and many other Eastern countries prefer the term ‘earth’. In this book, we chose to adopt the term ‘ground’ to denote the common electrical reference point. Our sincere apologies to those readers who would have preferred the use of the term ‘earth’.
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Industrial Automation Introduction
1 Introduction
Society in its daily endeavours has become so dependent on automation that it is difficult to imagine life without automation engineering. In addition to the industrial production with which it is popularly associated, it now covers a number of unexpected areas. Trade, environmental protection engineering, traffic engineering, agriculture, building engineering, and medical engineering are but some of the areas where automation is playing a prominent role. Automation engineering is a cross sectional discipline that requires proportional knowledge in hardware and software development and their applications. In the past, automation engineering was mainly understood as control engineering dealing with a number of electrical and electronic components. This picture has changed since computers and software have made their way into every component and element of communications and automation.
Industrial automation engineers carry a lot of responsibility in their profession. No other domain demands so much quality from so many perspectives of the function, yet with significant restrictions on the budget. The project managers of industrial automation projects have significant resource constraint, considering the ever changing demands of its management, trying to adopt the rapid acceleration of the technological changes and simultaneously trying to maintain the reliability and unbreakable security of the plant and its instruments.
This book is structured to walk you through a précised life cycle of the various automation activities of a plant. There are a number of books that cover different aspects of automation but this is all encompassing.
IDC Technologies - Personal Name
978-87-403-0004-8
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Information Technology
English
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