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Automating Manufacturing Systems with PLCs.pdf

November 9, 2009 · Filed Under Mechanical & Industrial Engineering · Comment  · Tags: , , ,

Taken from PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS’s Introduction: Control engineering has evolved over time. In the past humans were the main method for controlling a system. More recently electricity has been used for control and early electrical control was based on relays. These relays allow power to be switched on and off without a mechanical switch. It is common to use relays to make simple logical control decisions. The development of low cost computer has brought the most recent revolution, the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). The advent of the PLC began in the 1970s, and has become the most common choice for manufacturing controls.
PLCs have been gaining popularity on the factory floor and will probably remain predominant for some time to come. Most of this is because of the advantages they offer: Cost effective for controlling complex systems.
Flexible and can be reapplied to control other systems quickly and easily.
Computational abilities allow more sophisticated control.
Trouble shooting aids make programming easier and reduce downtime.
Reliable components make these likely to operate for years before failure.

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Control in an Information Rich World: Report of the Panel on Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems.pdf

October 28, 2009 · Filed Under Electrical Engineering · Comment  · Tags:

The purpose of this report is to spell out some of the prospects for control in the current and future technological environment, to describe the role the field will play in military, commercial, and scientific applications over the next decade, and to recommend actions required to enable new breakthroughs in engineering and technology through application of control research.

A Heat Transfer Textbook - Third Edition.pdf

February 16, 2009 · Filed Under Mechanical & Industrial Engineering · 7 Comments  · Tags: , , ,

The flow of heat is all-pervasive. It is active to some degree or another in everything. Heat flows constantly from your bloodstream to the air around you. The warmed air buoys off your body to warm the room you are in. If you leave the room, some small buoyancy-driven (or convective) motion of the air will continue because the walls can never be perfectly isothermal. Such processes go on in all plant and animal life and in the air around us. They occur throughout the earth, which is hot at its core and cooled around its surface. The only conceivable domain free from heat flow would have to be isothermal and totally isolated from any other region. It would be “dead” in the fullest sense of the word - devoid of any process of any kind.

Photovoltaic Power Generation.pdf

September 17, 2008 · Filed Under Engineering Physic · 1 Comment  · Tags: , ,

This report is an overview of photovoltaic power generation. The purpose of the report is to provide the reader with a general understanding of photovoltaic power generation and how PV technology can be practically applied.

Water Resources Engineering.pdf

August 8, 2008 · Filed Under Civil & Architectural Engineering · 31 Comments  · Tags: , , , , ,

This course material is addressed to a civil engineering student I suppose, but also so much applies to other disciplines, such as mechanical engineering and geological engineering.




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