Assembly Automation: Volume 12 Issue 1
Strapline:
The international journal of assembly technology and managementTable of contents
AUTOMATION COMMUNICATION NETWORK
Mark HighamModern technical communications is an incredibly important subject because, without it, no commercial business would be able to survive in today's marketplaces. Communications in…
DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING USING LOCAL OPERATING NETWORKS
Harold M. RabbieLON networks constitute a class of technology that allows intelligent devices such as actuators and sensors to communicate with one another using a standard protocol. In this way…
FIELDBUS — BRIDGES THE GAP BETWEEN ISLANDS OF AUTOMATION
Michael CooperCommunications have always played an important part in achieving efficient automation of a manufacturing or assembly process.
BITBUS SHARES THE LOAD AND TAKES THE STRAIN FOR PCS
Mike WebbIn general, designers of industrial control and data acquisition applications based on the PC use plug‐in cards to introduce signals from transducers into the computer system…
ASSEMBLY ENGINEERING AT CONTROL TECHNIQUES DRIVES LTD
Gunter WittenbergFor us, manufacturing means assembling and, when we have done that, we test and then we pack. When we can do all this as a continuous sequence of operations, with as much…
YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE HART
Mark HowarthHART stands for Highway Addressable Remote Transducer and refers to the protocol (basically the signalling method, message structure and transaction rules) used for digital…
ISSN:
0144-5154Renamed to:
Robotic Intelligence and AutomationOnline date, start – end:
1980 – 2022Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedEditor:
- Prof Hong Qiao