Automation
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The document discusses automation and its applications across various industries, emphasizing its role in enhancing efficiency, productivity, and quality. Key aspects include strategies for automating processes, recent trends in automation such as in retail and mining, and future directions involving advanced technologies like nanotech and machine networking. The author expresses a personal interest in industrial automation and the desire to practically apply their existing knowledge and skills in this field.
Automation
- 1. Name: Abhishek Kumar E mail abkumar905@gmail.com Twitter Id: @abkumar905 University: NIT Jamshedpur Year/Semester: 3rd Branch: Electrical and Electronics Engineering TOPIC: AUTOMATION
- 2. INTRODUCTION Automation or automatic control is the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery , processes in factories , boilers and heating treating ovens , switching in telephone networks , steering and stabilization of ships ,aircraft and other application with minimal or reduced human intervention .Some processes have been completely automated. The biggest benefit of automation is that it saves labor however , it is also used to save energy and materials to improve quality ,accuracy and precision. Automation Principle : 1.Understand the existing process input/output analysis value chain analysis charting techniques and mathematical modeling 2. Simplify the process Reduce unnecessary steps and move 3 Automate the process Ten strategies for automation and production systems Automation migration strategy
- 3. Automation strategies 1. Specialization of operations 2. Combined operations 3. Simultaneous operations 4. Integration of operations 5. Increased flexibility 6. Improved material handling and storage 7. On-line inspection 8. Process control and optimization 9. Plant operations control 10. Computer – Integrated manufacturing Reasons for automating :To increase labor productivity, to reduce labor cost , to mitigate the effect of labor shortages, to reduce or remove routine manual tasks ,to improve worker safety , to improve product safety , to improve product quality , to reduce manufacturing lead time , to accomplish what cannot be done manually , to avoid the high cost of not automating.
- 4. Recent and future trends Automated retail :The food industry has started to apply automation to the ordering process . Some restaurants have automated food delivery to customers tables using a conveyer belt system . Automated mining : Involve the removal of human labor from the mining process . The mining industry is currently in the transition towards automation. Automated video surveillance Automated highway systems Automated waste management Industrial automation: Industrial automation deals primarily with the automation of manufacturing , quality control and material handling process . General purpose controllers for industrial include Programmable logic controllers and computers . One trend is to use of machine vision to provide automatic inspection and robot guidance functions . Energy efficiency in industrial processes has a become higher priority. Industrial automation plays significant role in the next five years because of following reasons :
- 5. New Technology directions : Industrial automation can and will generate explosive growth with technology related with new inflection points- nanotechnology , MEMS and nanotech sensors(tiny , low-power , low-cost sensors)which can measure everything and anything, pervasive internet , machine to machine(M2M) networking . The future belongs to nanotech , wireless everything , and complex adaptive systems. Software applications : Major new software applications will be in wireless sensors and distributed peer-to-networks-tiny operating systems in wireless sensor nodes ,and the software that allows nodes to communicate with each other as a larger complex adaptive system . That is the wave of the future. The fully automated factory : The vision of fully automated factories has already existed for sometimes now- customers orders online , with electronic transactions that negotiate batch size ,price , color ; intelligent robots and sophisticated machines smoothly and rapidly fabricate a variety of customized products on demand. Large industrial application of automation : Automotive assembly in painting , machining and metal processing ,plastics injection molding , forest processing , robotics , material testing , industrial process control , motion simulation , animation , medical equipment.
- 6. Interest Areas I have choose this topic because I am interested in industrial automation . I have good knowledge of electrical actuator application ,programmable logic controller hardware details , programming PLC by Sematic manager software. I have the theoretical knowledge I wanted to do it practically . There is large application of industrial automation in different fields that motivates me to learn more about this topics . Industrial automation has changed the way of production systems , automation in the production systems , manual labor in production systems. If I got selected then I would like to work on industrial automation using Programming Logic Controllers used in the industry and also the use of pneumatics and electro-pneumatics in the in the industrial applications. I have technical skills . I need a platform opportunity to apply my skills practically to achieve my success. If you hire me I won’t think that I am working for your company instead I will think that I am working for my own company and put my full efforts and work with zeal and dedication.
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