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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

An overview of an application

In order to examine a control challenge in detail, we would need to explore an application in any relevant industry. In the following subsections, we will look into some applications, such as textile and newspaper printing applications.

An overview of textile applications

That perfect outfit that you love to wear starts with cotton being made into yarn. This yarn then is woven into a fabric, which then is used to prepare garments. There are so many elements in a production line that are involved in this process, such as spinning, sizing, warping, weaving, printing, dyeing, and inspection, among others. An overview of the elements in the textile production line is provided in Figure 3.4:

Figure 3.4 – An overview of the various elements in a textile manufacturing line

Figure 3.4 – An overview of the various elements in a textile manufacturing line

An overview of the entire flowchart of the textile industry is provided in Figure 3.5:

Figure 3.5 – An overview of the flow from raw materials to garment manufacturing

Figure 3.5 – An overview...

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