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Computer Application in Manufacturing Automation

Computer applications have influenced many areas of life by making tasks easier and faster. In manufacturing, computers help design, analyze, and produce products much more quickly through automation. Automation uses machines, control systems, and information technologies to optimize production efficiency. It involves both computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) systems as well as tools like programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that automate processes. The main advantages of automation include increased throughput, improved quality and consistency, and reduced labor costs.

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Computer Application in Manufacturing Automation

Computer applications have influenced many areas of life by making tasks easier and faster. In manufacturing, computers help design, analyze, and produce products much more quickly through automation. Automation uses machines, control systems, and information technologies to optimize production efficiency. It involves both computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) systems as well as tools like programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that automate processes. The main advantages of automation include increased throughput, improved quality and consistency, and reduced labor costs.

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Computer application in

manufacturing automation
• Computers have influenced every sphere of our life in one way or other.

• Computers are making human life easier and comfortable.

• Computers are helping to design, analyze and manufacture the product with
short span of time in engineering applications.

• A computer is a fast and accurate data manipulating system that is designed


to automatically accept and store input data.

• Process them and produce output results under the directions of a stored
program.
• Computer monitoring and control of the manufacturing
process .

• Manufacturing support application, which deals essentially


with the preparation for actual manufacturing and post
manufacturing process.
• The Engineering Applications Includes of different important types likes,
• i. CADD: - COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN and DRAFTING
• ii. CAM: - COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING CAD stands for
Computer Aided Design.

• Most CAD programs now permit creation of three-dimensional models,


which may be viewed from any angle. State-of-the-art solid modelling
CAD programs are a virtual reality for machine design that helps architects,
engineers, and designers in design activities. It involves both software and
special-purpose hardware.

• CAD is essentially an automated system for the design, drafting, and


display of graphically oriented information. Furthermore, CAD is used in
the manufacturing process for layouts.
• Automation is the use of machines, control systems and information
technologies to optimize productivity in the production of goods and
delivery of services.

• The word automation was originally coined by an engineering manager of


Ford Motor Company in 1946 in order to describe the variety of feed
device mechanism and automatic transfer devices.

• “Automation is a technique of automatically controlled operation of an


apparatus, process or system by mechanical or electronic devices that takes
place of human organs of observation, efforts and decision
Automation and Computerization in Production System:

i. Automated Manufacturing System

ii. Computerized Manufacturing System


Automation and Computerization in Production System
Elements of and Automated System
Automation Tools

• Computer-aided technologies (or CAx) now serve the basis for


mathematical and organizational tools used to create complex systems.

• Notable examples include Computer-aided design (CAD software) and


Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM software).

• The improved design, analysis, and manufacture of products has been


beneficial for industry.

• i. Different types of automation tools exist: • ANN - Artificial neural


network • BPM - Bonita Open Solution • DCS - Distributed Control
System
• HMI - Human Machine Interface.

• SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition •.

• PLC - Programmable Logic Controller

• PAC - Programmable automation controller

• Instrumentation

• Motion control

• Robotics
The main advantages of automation

Increased throughput or productivity.

• Improved quality or increased predictability of quality.

• Improved robustness (consistency), of processes or product.

• Increased consistency of output.

• Reduced direct human labour costs and expenses


Level of Automation

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