Publisher's Synopsis
Containing the papers presented at the IFAC Symposium on Cost-Oriented Automation held in Berlin, Germany from 8-9 October 2001, this volume examines the life cycle of automation systems including design, production, operating, maintenance, reconfiguration and recycling, with particular emphasis on cost effectiveness (cost of ownership).;The proceedings contain nearly 40 papers, including the papers presented at two industrial workshops on Virtual Programmable Logic Control and Lifecycle Costs, where new developments in these fields were presented and discussed.;The topics of the eight regular sessions were: controls for manufacturing systems; simulation of manufacturing systems and processes; actuators and sensors; programmable logic controls; robotics information processing for shop floor control; human-machine interfaces and implemented solutions.
