Industrial Automation - Volume I: Basics of Automation

The first Volume of my new Series on Industrial Automation is now available. The Series is dedicated to students and education organizations and also to those working in control, monitoring and supervision of machines, industrial plants and utilities, in the management of data acquisition and measurement and in Building Automation. For instance, the volumes of this Series can be used as a support in courses for new hired technical staff, technical sales staff, etc. Publisher is GISI Servizi.

The first Volume, already available, gives a general overview on the elements composing an automation system according to the standard 'pyramid model'. Then, the main techniques of data acquisition , processing, control, communication and supervision are discussed, with a reference to the main technology trends. Moreover, Volume I outlines the main professional figures required by automation, the transition towards distributed systems, techniques and methods to design an automated system, and so on.
The following Volumes will be dedicated to control units (PLCs, PACs, Industrial PC,s, DCSs, Scada, etc.) and their programming (Volume II), sensors and data acquisition (Volume III), actuators (Volume IV) and Building Automation (Volume V).
Volume I is now available in Italian language. The English edition will be available in autumn 2014.

Cover price 60 euros. A 30% discount is deserved to the readers of my blog. Discounts also for companies requiring custom editions (logo on the cover, adv inside, etc.).

The book is available from GISI Servizi (www.gisi.it), Amazon (www.amazon.com) and Libreria Universitaria (www.libreriauniversitaria.it)