3/9/15 Distributive Control System (DCS) A distributed control system, is a control system for a process or plant, wherein control elements are distributed throughout the system. Distributed Control System is a specially designed control system used to control complex, large and geographically distributed applications in industrial processes. In this, controllers are distributed throughout the entire plant area. These distributed controllers are connected to both field devices and operating
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System Model 2. Common ground and differences between manufacturing and services 1.2.1 Common Ground: • Entail customer satisfaction as a key measure of effectiveness • Require demand forecasting • Require design of both the product and the process • Involve purchase of materials, supplies, and services • Require equipment, tools, buildings, and skills, etc. 1.2.2 Differences: • Customer contact Service involves a much higher degree of customer contact than manufacturing does. The
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Three Automation Types Quantity Quantity A. Fixed Automation A system in which the sequence of processing (or assembly) operations is fixed by the equipment configuration. The operations in the sequence are usually simple. lt is the integration and coordination of many such operations into one piece of equipment that makes the system complex. Typical features: * Suited to high production quantities * High initial investment for custom-engineered
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M3 Describe how control measures are used to prevent accidents What is a control measure? As part of managing the health and safety of a business, the business owner or health and safety manager must control the risks in the workplace to staff and visitors. To do this they need to think about what might cause harm to people and decide whether they are taking reasonable steps to prevent that harm. Control measures are the features of a facility that eliminate, prevent or reduce the risk to health
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success. If we wanted to maintain our success, the control is needed. ‘Control is initiated when there are unwanted deviations in a system or when performance needs to be corrected, the literature does not directly address the conditions that favor the initiation of control.’ (Green & Welsh, 1988, p.292) Control not only is an after-the-fact process; it also is a preventive measures. Williams &McWilliams (2009) have stated that, control is a managing process of building a standard to achieve objective,
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Four major control systems Question 1: Managers are most likely to step across ethical and legal boundaries when the pressure to perform is great. Pressure can be healthy but companies that set high-performance targets and grant large rewards for achieving these must have strong control systems to ensure that people are not tempted to cross boundaries. What are the four important control systems? After analyzing the WorldCom case I was able to gather what four major control systems that were
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Total Quality Pioneers University of Phoenix Daisy Keys September 5, 2011 Instructor: Professor Raul Enciso Japan’s net worth was negative in 1950, and natural resources were not significant. Also Japan’s consumer goods were cheap, and badly made. However, Japanese management was receptive to new ideas and realized quality was the way to improve their economy. Today Japan manufactures top quality products and is the envy of the world. However, their management approach of resources is
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Associate Program Material Appendix G Sequential and Selection Process Control Structure In the following example, the second line of the table specifies that tax due on a salary of $2,000.00 is $225.00 plus 16% of excess salary over $1,500.00 (that is, 16% of $500.00). Therefore, the total tax is $225.00 + $80.00, or $305.00. | |Salary Range in Dollars |Base Tax in Dollars |Percentage of Excess | |1 |0.00-1,499.99
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AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY 1 WHAT IS AUTOMATION? • Automation is the use of machines, control systems and information technologies to optimize productivity in the production of goods and delivery of services. • The correct incentive for applying automation is to increase productivity, and/or quality beyond that possible with current human labor levels so as to realize economies of scale, and/or realize predictable quality levels. 2 AUTOMATION • In the scope of industrialization, automation
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sugar mill is a factory that processes sugar cane to produce raw or white sugarAs in many other industries factory automation has been promoted heavily in sugar refineries in recent decades. The production process is generally controlled by a central process control system, which directly controls most of the machines and components. For security reasons only certain special machines, such as the centrifuges in the sugar house, are decentralized. In these cases PLCs are used Due to the low purity
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