Automating Manufacturing Operations: The Penultimate Approach

the book especially addresses the all-important human-machine interface: computer-based manufacturing procedures that are understandable to both computers and humans. consequently, a language for writing procedures is discussed. it is a language based on chinese grammar, which is the simplest of all complex human languages.

Finally, the design of procedures is discussed as a hierarchy of complexity, along with exception handling at each level. Readers with basic experience using non-procedural automation can greatly benefit from the productivity gains possible from procedural-based automation. They will learn how to create procedural language that is as close to natural language as possible.

the reader also will benefit from:

• A brief overview and history of Manufacturing Operations (MOPS)
• Coverage of manufacturing units and regulatory and sequential control
• Discussion of Data recording from MOPs and tasks
• An overview of Automating Manufacturing Tasks with DCS, PLC, and PCS
• Guidelines for setting up an Automated MOPS (AMOPS) project
• Guidelines for validating an AMOPS for regulated industries
• Examples of applications for both continuous and batch manufacturing