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The Art of Manufacturing

You're reading from   The Art of Manufacturing Overcome control challenges for increasing efficiency in manufacturing using real-world examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804619452
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ninad Deshpande Ninad Deshpande
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Sivaram Pothukuchi Sivaram Pothukuchi
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to the Manufacturing Landscape and Innovative Automation in Everyday Life
2. Chapter 1: Automation Is a Part of Our Daily Lives FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Art of Temperature Control 4. Chapter 3: Tension Control – Managing Material Tension 5. Chapter 4: Level Control – Controlling the Level of Liquid to Avoid Drying Up or Spilling Over 6. Chapter 5: Motion Control – Control, Synchronization, and Interpolation of Axes for Accuracy and Precision 7. Chapter 6: Material Dispensing Control 8. Part 2: Automation and Humans
9. Chapter 7: The Interplay of Humans-Machines-Automation 10. Chapter 8: Automation – Dramatically Helping Avoid Human Intervention 11. Chapter 9: Automation Can Build a Super-Organism with Awareness 12. Chapter 10: What’s Next? 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technological advances to help realize the blueprint

Technology is rapidly advancing and evolving. It is indeed difficult to adapt to this technological change. When you buy a phone, you might think that you will be up to date for the next few years. Within no time, you see there is a new variant of your phone offering better features. These changes are owing to changing electronics and technologies. There is a similar change in manufacturing, as electronics are the heart of all devices used in this industry.

Controller chips are getting smaller and faster

One of the key developments in this field is the advances in computing processors. There is a law in microelectronics called Moore’s Law. It is actually not a law but rather a prediction of how integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing will develop. About 50 years ago, Gordon Moore posited that computing power in a given size of chip would double every 2 years. Looking back now, the following has come to pass – every...

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