Modern Industrial Electronics, Fifth Edition

Modern Industrial Electronics, Fifth Edition

Product Description This book provides an explanation of whole-system structures and relationships rather than isolated circuits or devices. It is committed to showing how the devices of modern electronics are applied in realistic industrial applications, and makes every effort to help you reach the skill level needed for carrying out your job responsibilities.It thoroughly examines a wide variety of systems--from PLCs to industrial robots--and includes a wealth of background information regarding the economic importance and/or environmental impact of the production process involved in the system.A book for the Industrial Electronics Technician or Engineering Technologist who want current information showing how the devices of modern electronics are applied in realistic industrial applications. From the Back Cover This classic industrial electronics text is intended to be the core text for third- or fourth-semester electronic technology courses in industrial Electronics, industrial Process Control, Industrial Machinery, and Industrial Automation. Unlike other technician-level texts, Modern Industrial Electronics does not limit its presentation to isolated devices or individual circuits, but strongly emphasizes the need for students to study and understand actual and complete industrial systems. Now in its fifth edition, this highly successful book continues to provide complete and up-to-date information. It thoroughly examines a wide variety of systems--from transistor switches to industrial robots--and discusses such issues as the economic importance and/or environmental impact of the production process. Because the author adopts the logical view that things will go wrong in any real system, he ensures that students have plenty of opportunities throughout the book to determine probable causes and corrections for system failures. The Troubleshooting on the job section is a critical component of every chapter. Discussion has been expanded on the topic of electrical and magnetic noise in electronic measurement/transmission systems, and on shielding techniques for coping with it. The current-loop approach to signal transmission is explained and contrasted with voltage transmission. Some of the PLC program logic of this book is moderately complex, representative of actual industrial control processes; this is unlike the artificially simple logic o f other industrial texts. In the fifth edition such coverage is pushed further yet; to include program branching and subroutine applications. An instructors manual (ISBN o-i3-048142-z) accompanies this text and is available free of char a to instructors using this book. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Modern Industrial Electronics, Fifth Edition, provides a total-system view of the world of manufacturing and automated production for students of electrical and electronics technology. It maintains the original commitment, intact since the first edition, of showing how the devices of modern electronics are applied in realistic industrial applications. New topics covered in this edition are: Chapter 3, PLCs Program branching?Jump instruction Subroutines?Passing parameters to a subroutine and returning parameters from a subroutine Chapter 8, Op Amps Voltage signal degradation caused by: (1) IR drop; (2) capacitively coupled electric noise, including switching transients; and (3) magnetically coupled noise Electric and magnetic shielding Proper grounding Current-loop signal transmission A WORD TO STUDENTS The capabilities of industrial manufacturing systems have expanded at a startling rate since the first edition of Modern Industrial Electronics was published in 1979. Part of the new capability has to do with more precise control over machines and processes, and part has to do with our greater ability to measure and make records of production variables. This expansion has two direct effects on you. First, it m