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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

Overcoming the control challenge (tension control)

Tension control is indeed critical in many applications and industries. However, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Thus, monitoring and maintaining tension at a defined level does not have a single straightforward solution. There are many ways in which tension can be monitored in a machine application. The different possibilities will be evaluated in this section. We are not saying that these are the only ways to maintain tension, but these are widely adopted solutions in the industry today.

Ways to measure tension

Let us have a look at how to measure the tension of material in some practical applications. There are many methods that can be used to maintain tension on a product. Tension could be monitored via either direct means or indirect means. The methods that we will mention provide possibilities and are not the only ways of measuring and maintaining tension but provide a good understanding of how things are managed...

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