This new text provides the latest information available on manufacturing/industrial technology. It covers a wide range of topics. Special features include: how automated assembly and automated guided vehicles are used in today's manufacturing environment; the use of CAD/CAM and computers in manufacturing and how they are used; programmable logic controllers, their history, configuration, operation and application, and an entire chapter on CIM (computer integrated manufacturing), the problems and benefits. This book should be of interest to first year undergraduate students taking manufacturing technology courses.
- ISBN10 0827337868
- ISBN13 9780827337862
- Publish Date 1 January 1990 (first published 18 December 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 4 July 2000
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Delmar Cengage Learning
- Edition Illustrated edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English