The Automated Factory Handbook: Technology and Management

by David I. Cleland, Bopaya Bidanda

This book offers a unique blend of the most advanced factory management technology and contemporary personnel management concepts. The book was written especially for manufacturing engineers and managers who must design, develop, and operate tomorrow's highly automated factories. Practical explanations and descriptions give readers the knowledge and tools necessary to implement an effective system of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM), particularly in such areas as real-time analysis and the planning and control of manufacturing processes. The book concludes with a number of actual case studies to illustrate the concepts presented in the text.

832 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1990