Overview

Automation is nothing new to industry. It has a long tradition on the factory floor, where its constant objective has been to increase the productivity of manufacturing processes. Only with the advent of computers could the focus of automation widen to include administrative and information-handling tasks. More recently, automation has been extended to the more intellectual tasks of production planning and control, material and resource planning, engineering design, and quality control. New challenges arise in the form of flexible manu­ facturing, assembly automation, and automated floor vehicles, to name just a few. The sheer complexity of the problems as well as the state of the art has led scientists and engineers to concentrate on issues that could easily be isolated. For example, it was much simpler to build CAD systems whose sole objective was to ease the task of drawing, rather than to worry at the same time about how the design results could be interfaced with the manufacturing or assembly processes. It was less problematic to gather statistics from quality control and to print reports than to react immediately to first hints of irregularities by inter­ facing with the designers or manufacturing control, or, even better, by auto­ matically diagnosing the causes from the design and planning data. A heav- though perhaps unavoidable - price must today be paid whenever one tries to assemble these isolated solutions into a larger, integrated system.

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Author:   K.R. Dittrich ,  Jose L. Encarnacao ,  J.L. Encarnacao ,  Peter C. Lockemann
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.425kg
ISBN:  

9783642648595

ISBN 10:   3642648592
Pages:   229
Publication Date:   01 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1 Significance of Engineering Databases.- 1.1 The Situation.- 1.2 The Solution.- 1.3 The Architecture of an Engineering Database System.- 1.4 Organizational Procedures.- 1.5 Further Reading.- 2 Database Technology.- 2.1 Concepts and Terminology.- 2.2 Data Organization and Manipulation: Current Status.- 2.3 Database Systems for Engineering Applications: A New Focus.- 2.4 Data Organization and Manipulation: Taking Care of the New Focus.- 3 Utilization of Engineering Databases.- 3.1 Motivation.- 3.2 Database Schema Design.- 3.3 Version Management.- 3.4 Generating and Entering Data.- 3.5 Archiving Database Objects.- 3.6 Data Interchange.- 3.7 Application Programming.- 3.8 Further Reading.- 4 Case Studies.- 4.1 VLSI Design.- 4.2 Software Engineering.- 4.3 Further Reading.

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