A practical book emphasizing the importance of flexible factory automation as a tool in manufacturing competitiveness which highlights the issues associated with implementing automation. Table of Contents: Factory Automation--A Manufacturing Business Tool; Identification, Creation and Analysis of Automation Proposal; The Requirements Specification: The Business Case and How to Sell It; Who Will Do It? Detailed Design; Building the System; Debug and Functional Test; Installation and Commissioning; System in Operation. Index. 150 illustrations.
- ISBN10 0077074408
- ISBN13 9780077074401
- Publish Date 1 May 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 July 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- Imprint McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English