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Automation.com bookstore offers light reading books for the industrial automation and control engineer. To learn more about a specific book, check prices, or to purchase a book, please click on the corresponding link below.
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Design Patterns for Flexible Manufacturing
This handy resource defines an effective set of design patterns and rules you should know when applying the widely used ISA-88 industry standards to batch manufacturing (called the S88 design pattern) and continuous and discrete manufacturing (called the NS88 design pattern for non-stop production). |
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A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge - 2nd Edition
- 11/01/05
A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge provides you with comprehensive information about all major topics in the broad field of automation. Edited by Vernon Trevathan with contributions from over thirty leading experts from all aspects of automation, this book defines the most important automation concepts and processes, while also describing the technical skills professionals require to implement them in today’s industrial environment. |
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Pinto's Bundle: Pinto's Points & Automation UnPlugged
- 08/22/05
We still have a few copies of Jim Pinto's "Automation Unplugged" ($25.00), so we've bundled it with Jim's new book - "Pinto's Points - How to Win in the Automation Business" ($30.00). Get a $5.00 discount when you buy both of these books in a bundle. |
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Pinto's Points - How to Win in the Automation Business
- 08/19/05
Pinto's Points covers management topics, globalization, sales and marketing, technology trends and futures, and far-out technology visions. It closes with whimsical humor and poetry which I hope you'll enjoy. It includes 174 brief "points" in 6 different parts, each introduced by an industry guru. |
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Automation Unplugged - Pinto's Perspectives, Prognostications, Predictions & Poetry
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If you have heard industry pundit Jim Pinto speak, or read his barbed writings or laugh-out-loud poems, or subscribe to his popular e-newsletter, you'll enjoy his new book. It's loaded with critical analysis of the changing face of industrial automation; predictions about future automation technology trends – including Pinto’s provoking prognostications on what major supplier companies will survive, and what ones won’t; the best of his articles on marketing & distribution; and his highly rated fieldbus commentary. Of course, the book also includes the best-of-the-best poems from the recognized "poet laureate of instrumentation." |
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Dick Morley - Out of the Barn
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In typical Dick Morley fashion, the book covers eight entertaining topical sections, including Floor Level Control Systems; Industrial Computing: The Camel Has the Tent; Software: Indispensable Exasperation; Managing Manufacturing: Multi-Tasking Personified; Enhancing Corporate Wealth; Global Reports; Evaluating Entrepreneurship; and We Have Met the Enemy: They Is Us!. |
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