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Practical Automation : Methods for Increasing Factory Productivity - Bittel et al. 1957 - Book Information

Practical Automation : Methods for Increasing Plant Productivity /


Practical Automation : Methods for Increasing Factory  Productivity 

Lester R. Bittel, Morley G. Melden and Robert S. Rice.


Language(s): English

Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1957.

Subjects: Automation

Physical Description: vii, 376 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.


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Table of Contents 

Preface v 

SECTION I — FUNDAMENTALS OF AUTOMATION 1 «. 

Chapter 1 — What Automation Means to You 2 Chapter 

2 — How You Can Automate 16  

Chapter 3 — Automation—Piecemeal 28  

Chapter 4 — Automation—Full Scale 40  

Chapter 5 — Automation in Job Shops and Small Plants 58 

 SECTION II— AUTOMATION IN MANUFACTURING 81 

Chapter 6 — Handling Materials 82 

Chapter 7 — Shaping and Forming the Product 120 

Chapter 8 — Assembling the Product 136 

Chapter 9 — Processing and .Finishing the Product 150 

Chapter 10 — Automating Inspection 170 

Chapter 11 — Controlling Equipment with Coded Information 182 

SECTION III — PLANT ENGINEERING AND MAINTENANCE FOR AUTOMATION 193

 Chapter 12 — Plant Engineering for Automation 194 

Chapter 13 — Maintenance of Automated Equipment 214 

Chapter 14 - Electrical Power Needs 238 

Chapter 15 — Instruments and Controls for Automation 254 

Chapter 16 — Communication Systems 278 

SECTION IV — MANAGEMENT OF AUTOMATION 293 

Chapter 17 — Solving Management Problems 294 

Chapter 18 — Computers, Information n Processing, and Management Controls 316 

Chapter 19 — Managing People Under Automation 346 

Bibliography 365 

Index 367 



Automation;

what it is, how it works, who can use it.

Illustrated by Herb Lebowitz.

Dreher, Carl, 

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Ud. 9.5.2023

Pub. 29.4.2022


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