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Explores the components of automation Key Features The book provides basic concepts of industrial automation It is beneficial for engineering students having interest in the field of automation The unique feature of this book is the inclusion of multiple-choice questions to help prepare students for competitive exams and interviews It covers the roles of SCADA and PLC in automation Description Automation is a process to perform controlled activities with minimal human assistance. A lot of research is being carried out in this field. Students are also opting for research and studies in automation. The objective of this book is to explain the role of industrial automation. This book will help engineering students to understand the basic concepts of industrial automation. The unique feature of this book is the inclusion of multiple-choice questions to help prepare students for competitive exams and interviews. Automation has grown into a vast field and this book will be helpful to understand it comprehensively. What Will You Learn SCADA and its application in Industrial Automation Supervisory and Control Functions SCADA Communication Network Human Machine Interface SCADA in EMS Programmable Logic Controller Automation Software Field Instrumentation Device Utility Information System Who This Book Is For Engineering students having research interests in the field of automation. Table of Contents SCADA in Industrial Automation Supervisory and Control Functions SCADA Communication Network Human Machine Interface SCADA in EMS Programmable Logic Controller Applications of SCADA Automation Software Field Instrumentation Device Utility Information System About the Author Mr.Vikalp Joshi holds a B.Tech(Instrumentation) degree from University Science Instrumentation Center, H.N.B.G.U, Srinagar (Garhwal), and M.Tech (Instrumentation and Control) from Graphic Era University, Dehradun. He has two years of industrial experience in the field of industrial automation in packaging industries and around five years of teaching experience in reputed engineering institutes and central university. Currently, he is working as an automation engineer at Shivansh controls, Dehradun, Uttarakhand. He has published many research papers on national and international journals. His area of interest covers Industrial Automation, Industrial instrumentation, and Process Control Instrumentation. Dr. Manoj Singh Adhikari received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Dev Bhoomi Institute of Technology, Dehradun, India, in 2010 and M.Tech. degree in Digital Signal Processing Engineering from the G. B. Pant Institute of Engineering and Technology (formerly known as G. B. Pant Engineering College), Pauri Garhwal, India, in 2013. He received his Ph. D. in Jan. 2019 from the same institution.Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab. His research interests are simulation and modeling of power semiconductor devices. He has published more than ten research papers in reputed journals/conferences like IET, IEEE, ELSEVIER, Springer,and so on. He is serving as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, AEÜ - International Journal of Electronics & Communications, and Springer. Dr. Raju Patel is working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Electronics & Communications Engineering, MBM Engineering College, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. He received his Ph.D. and M.Tech. (Specialization - VLSI Design) degrees from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India, in 2014 and 2018 respectively. Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from S.B.C.E.T., Jaipur, University of Rajasthan, 2007. He has a teaching and research experience for over eleven years. His research interests include design, simulation, fabrication, and characterization of Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator as a RF filter and gas sensing applications. Dr. Rajesh Singh is currently associated with Lovely Professional University as a Professor with more than fifteen years of experience in academics. He has been awarded as gold medalist in M.Tech and honors in his B.E. His area of expertise includes embedded systems, robotics, wireless sensor networks, and Internet of Things. He has organized and conducted a number of workshops, summer internships, and expert lectures for students as well as faculty. He has twenty three patents in his account. He has published around hundred research papers in referred journals/conferences. Under his mentorship, students have participated in national/international competitions including the Texas competition in Delhi and Laureate award of excellence in robotics engineering in Spain. He has been awarded with “certificate of appreciation” and “Best Researcher award- 2017” twice in last four years from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies for exemplary work. He got “certificate of appreciation” for mentoring the projects submitted to Texas Instruments Innovation challenge India design contest, from Texas Instruments, in 2015.He has been honored with young investigator award at the International Conference on Science and Information in 2012. He has published fifteen books in the area of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things with reputed publishers. He is an editor to special issues published by AISC book series, Springer with title “Intelligent Communication, Control and Devices”-2017 and 2018. Dr. Anita Gehlot is currently associated with Lovely Professional University as an Associate Professor with more than ten years of experience in academics.She has twenty patents in her account. She has published more than fifty research papers in referred journals and conference. She has organized a number of workshops, summer internships,and expert lectures for students. She has been awarded with “certificate of appreciation” from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies for exemplary work. She has published fifteen books in the area of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things with reputed publishers. She is aneditor to a special issue published by AISC book series, Springer with title “Intelligent Communication, Control and Devices-2018”.
A guide to understand the potential of Intelligent Automation across businesses and enterprises. Key Features - A comprehensive discussion of key concepts, techniques, and key elements of intelligent automation. - Expert coverage on combining various technologies, including RPA, AI, Blockchain, and IoT. - Includes case studies and use cases for successful automation applications. - Precise guidance on how to scale automation in enterprises. Description 'Intelligent Automation Simplified' guides tech professionals to take a much more simplified and sophisticated step towards developing intelligent automation. This book will explain the basic concepts of smart automation and how to put it into practice for a company. This book explores each stage of automation design and explains how these automation fragments can be brought together in the end-to-end automation of workflow. This book discusses numerous examples and scenarios that will help relate and understand how technology can be used in real life to solve business problems. This book provides a lot of information and insights and helps readers grasp the methodology used to develop an automation solution correctly. With detailed illustrations and real use-cases, you will be able to easily create smart automation solutions and practice how to modify them. Towards the end, the book describes how smart automation expands in a company and discusses the various strategies for large-scale use. The book also highlights the latest trends in intelligent automation and its progress into the future of work. What you will learn - Learn about the essential and primary components of intelligent automation. - Investigate the capabilities of RPA and AI in the development of Intelligent Automation solutions. - Recognize the factors that will help you choose the best processes for automation. - Learn how to use the framework to create an Intelligent Automation solution. - Create a blueprint to scale automation in the enterprise. - Discover the most recent Intelligent Automation trends from industry experts. Who this book is for This book is intended for current and future technical professionals who want to learn about Intelligent Automation, plan, and implement it in an enterprise or consult with clients. Readers should be familiar with the software development workflow and have a basic understanding of advanced technologies such as AI and RPA. Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Intelligent Automation 2. Robotic Process Automation 3. Artificial Intelligence in Automation 4. Other technologies in Automation 5. Intelligent Automation Use cases 6. Enterprise Automation Journey 7. Intelligent Automation – Trends and the future
Gain experience of building a next-generation collaboration robot Key Features Get up and running with the fundamentals of robotic programming Program a robot using Python and the Raspberry Pi 3 Learn to build a smart robot with interactive and AI-enabled behaviors Book Description We live in an age where the most difficult human tasks are now automated. Smart and intelligent robots, which will perform different tasks precisely and efficiently, are the requirement of the hour. A combination of Raspberry Pi and Python works perfectly when making these kinds of robots. Learn Robotics Programming starts by introducing you to the basic structure of a robot, along with how to plan, build, and program it. As you make your way through the book, you will gradually progress to adding different outputs and sensors, learning new building skills, and writing code for interesting behaviors with sensors. You'll also be able to update your robot, and set up web, phone, and Wi-Fi connectivity in order to control it. By the end of the book, you will have built a clever robot that can perform basic artificial intelligence (AI) operations. What you will learn Configure a Raspberry Pi for use in a robot Interface motors and sensors with a Raspberry Pi Implement code to make interesting and intelligent robot behaviors Understand the first steps in AI behavior such as speech recognition visual processing Control AI robots using Wi-Fi Plan the budget for requirements of robots while choosing parts Who this book is for Learn Robotics Programming is for programmers, developers, and enthusiasts interested in robotics and developing a fully functional robot. No major experience required just some programming knowledge would be sufficient.
Learn how to design and develop robotic process automation solutions with Blue Prism to perform important tasks that enable value creation in your work Key Features Develop robots with Blue Prism Automate your work processes with Blue Prism Learn basic skills required to train a robot for process automation Book Description Robotic process automation is a form of business process automation where user-configured robots can emulate the actions of users. Blue Prism is a pioneer of robotic process automation software, and this book gives you a solid foundation to programming robots with Blue Prism. If you've been tasked with automating work processes, but don't know where to start, this is the book for you! You begin with the business case for robotic process automation, and then move to implementation techniques with the leading software for enterprise automation, Blue Prism. You will become familiar with the Blue Prism Studio by creating your first process. You will build upon this by adding pages, data items, blocks, collections, and loops. You will build more complex processes by learning about actions, decisions, choices, and calculations. You will move on to teach your robot to interact with applications such as Internet Explorer. This can be used for spying elements that identify what your robot needs to interact with on the screen. You will build the logic behind a business objects by using read, write, and wait stages. You will then enable your robot to read and write to Excel and CSV files. This will finally lead you to train your robot to read and send emails in Outlook. You will learn about the Control Room, where you will practice adding items to a queue, processing the items and updating the work status. Towards the end of this book you will also teach your robot to handle errors and deal with exceptions. The book concludes with tips and coding best practices for Blue Prism. What you will learn Learn why and when to introduce robotic automation into your business processes Work with Blue Prism Studio Create automation processes in Blue Prism Make use of decisions and choices in your robots Use UI Automation mode, HTML mode, Region mode, and spying Learn how to raise exceptions Get the robot to deal with errors Learn Blue Prism coding best practices Who this book is for The book is aimed at end users such as citizen developers who create business processes, but may not have the basic programming skills required to train a robot. No experience of BluePrism is required.
Using a combination of theoretical discussion and real-world case studies, this book analyses the use of robotics, artificial intelligence and services automation (RAISA) within the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. Divided into two sections, the book first concentrates on the theoretical aspects surrounding the use of RAISA in travel, tourism and hospitality. Themes explored include: economic fundamentals customer attitudes chatbot adoption service quality Following on from this, the second section concentrates on current and future use of RAISA technologies in specific subsectors of the tourism economy: hotels, restaurants, travel agencies, museums, and events. With an international scope of authorship and focus, the book is a useful reference source for scholars, students, and general readers interested in robotics, artificial intelligence, and automation technologies. Alongside this, the business insights and case studies examined in the book offer practitioners guidance on how these technologies can and will be incorporated into organizations, particularly those in the travel and tourism industry.
Demystifying “SAP Business Automation” and shape tangible use cases that add values to your organisation, Customers & Business Key Features Examples, problem solutions, and tips and tricks for daily practice are given in a simple manner. Learn the Troubleshooting & performance optimization techniques Get to know the Hard coding – Categorization & Recommendations SAP Business Workflow Introduction, Terminology, Function Modules and Reports are given in a simple form. Description The book has been written in such a way that the concepts are explained in detail, giving adequate emphasis on examples. To make clarity of the programming examples, logic is explained properly as well discussed using comments in program itself. The book covers the topics right from the start of the software using snapshots of starting the software and writing programs into it. The real-time examples are discussed in detail from simple to complex taking into consideration the requirement of IT consultants. Various sample projects are included in the Book and are written in simple language so as to give IT consultants the basic idea of developing projects in SAP. The examples given in book are user-focused and have been highly updated including topics, figures and examples. The book features more on practical approach with more examples covering topics from simple to complex one addressing many of the core concepts and advance topics also. What Will You Learn SAP NetWeaver Gateway Realtime Case Study and demos on workflow for all the major SAP applications Step-by-step instructions for adapting data flows, agent determination, event definitions, and more SAP Workflow upgrade from 4.6 to 6.0 Who This Book Is For SAP Consultants, SAP technical, Business analysts, Architects, Team Leads, Project Leads, Project Managers, Account Manager, Account Executives, CEO, CTO, COO, CIO, Sr. VP, Directors. Table of Contents SAP Business Workflow Introduction SAP Business Workflow Terminology SAP Workflow with Function Modules & Reports SAP Workflow Review Checklist Demo- SAP Workflow for Credit Memos Demo- SAP Business Workflow Substitution Demo - When a FI Document is Parked then Trigger Custom Workflow Demo - Goods Returns Workflow Demo- Workflow for MRP Purchase Requisitions Workflow Management System Best Practices Earn Value - Overview Basic Data Services Using SAP NetWeaver Gateway 2.0 SAP NetWeaver Gateway- Transaction Codes Usage and Purpose SAP NetWeaver Gateway Basic Configuration Demo- Workflow Trigger Using HR Tables Demo- Workflow Trigger using Status Management Demo- Leave Request Demo- Integration of Portal and SAP Workflow Demo- Integration of Workflow with ALE Demo- Attach link in send mail Step of a Workflow Case Study - Advance Workflow Design- Update Sales Document Case Study - SAP Workflow Upgrade from 4.6 to 6.0 Quiz Session - SAP Workflow About the Author Sudipta Malakar is an accomplished IT SAP Project Manager, Program Manager, Agile Coach with 15+ years of experience in directing SAP DEV teams in supporting many major fortune 500 clients in multiple large accounts that include more than 7 years of experience in IT Project/Program & Solution Delivery Management and 5+ years of experience in Agile as SCRUM Master, Agile Coach.