Preface

With the emerging technologies, the quest for competitiveness by organisations, dynamic nature of customer requirements and market demand, need to achieve product quality and organisation’s bottom line; profitability in a time and cost effective manner, the role of automation and control cannot be overemphasised. There is a constant quest by organisations to achieve the development of smart systems for effective delivery, monitoring and control. Since manufacturing industries are profit-oriented and are concerned with the precision and productivity per worker of their plants, automatic systems offer the solution of high productivity and effective control without sacrificing precision and accuracy. Furthermore, the increasing complex nature of production or manufacturing systems requires engineers to have a proper understanding of the system’s dynamics, behaviour and control requirements. This book bridges the gap between the theory and practice by providing and validating practical principles of automation and control. It provides a practical guided approach to help learners, professionals and organisations achieve automation and control of industrial systems. Besides it offers a robust technical data and theoretical principles relating to automation and control. The book contains twelve chapters which address many important aspects of automation and control including automation classes and principles, control theories, instrumentation, supervisory systems and robotics amongst others. It also unveils the basic and fundamental principles underlying the design of control systems.

The book is ideal for readers including learners, academics, professionals, technical person- nel’s etc. as an educational and instructional resource across multi-disciplinary fields such as electrical engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, mechatronic engineering, computer engineering, system engineering and other related fields. It will help readers gain theoretical and practical knowledge of system’s control and automation so that they can be experts in the fields.