Programmable
Automation
Technologies
An Introduction to
CNC, Robotics and PLCs
Daniel E. Kandray, P.E.
Industrial Press Inc.
New York
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kandray, Daniel.
Programmable automation / Daniel Kandray.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-8311-9121-4
1. Manufacturing processes--Automation. 2. Machine-tools--Numerical control--Programming. 3. Robots, industrial--Programming. 4. Programmable controllers. I. Title.
TS183.K365 2010
670.42'7--dc22
2009047466
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For my wife, Tammie and my children—Dan, Ian, and Sydney;to my father Bill, and to my mother Evelyn, in loving memory
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction to Programmable Automation
1.1 Introduction to Programmable Automation
1.4 Manufacturing Performance Measures
Automation Justification and Productivity Concepts
2.1 Automation Justification and Productivity
2.3 Process Outputs and Mathematical Concepts for Quantifying Production
2.4 Process Inputs and Manufacturing Costs
2.5 Comparing Alternatives with Productivity Calculations
2.6 The Impact of Production Volume on Alternatives
2.7 Productivity and the USA Principle
