Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing provides comprehensive and balanced coverage of production systems. It includes insight into how producation systems are automated and computerized, and how they can be mathematically analyzed to obtain performance metrics. \n\nThe 5th Edition covers all the major cutting-edge technologies of producaton automation and material handling, and how these technologies are used to construct modern manufacturing systems. \n\nFeatures - \n\nAutomation and Artificial Intelligence, CNC trends and developments and Collaborative Robots added.\n\nCoverage on Robot Kinematics, MRP lot sizing algorithms, and Kanban planning and control models.\n\nDiscussion on Productive Performance Metrics has been revised based on the bottleneck model developed by James Solberg.\n\nThe coverage of CNC Machining Centers and related machine tools has been significantly revised and expanded.\n\nMore than 150 multiple-choice questions added along with several new line drawings.