Managing Industrial Controls - Softcover

N.E. Battikha

9780876640371: Managing Industrial Controls

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876640374 ISBN 13: 9780876640371

Publisher: International Society of Automation, 2013

Industrial control groups exist principally in three business areas: facilities that manufacture industrial control equipment, engineering organizations that implement control systems in plants, and plants that use control systems to operate efficiently. This handy reference book is written as a guide to help train industrial control managers and future managers on how to manage control system projects and industrial control groups. The book is divided into three parts. The first part sets the foundation for managers. It looks at organizations and human resources. It also presents an overview of industrial control systems, followed by tools for business development and the establishment of corporate standards to guide the work of industrial control groups in the implementation of industrial control systems. The second part covers three basic topics: first, the assessment of plant needs and a quantified approach to decision making; second, the tools needed by a manager to justify the budgets required to implement industrial control systems; and third, the actual management of industrial control projects from project definition and scheduling to front-end and detailed engineering. The third part covers the post-engineering phases, including equipment installation, check-out, commissioning and start-up, followed by ongoing maintenance activities. The last two chapters in this part cover auditing, which is a tool that a manager needs to identify control system implementation problems and to measure compliance with plant needs. This book is for people who are: Managers of industrial control groups and who need a handy manual for all matters related to industrial controls from a management point of view Now in industrial controls and are looking to become future managers (or supervisors) of industrial control groups Not now in industrial controls but have been given management responsibilities in that field, such as the manager of an electrical engineering department to whom industrial control responsibilities are now part of the job Interested in learning about the management of industrial controls

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About the Author:

N. E. (Bill) Battikha, P.E., has more than 30 years of experience in the field of industrial process control, working mainly in the United States and Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and is a member of the Delaware Association of Professional Engineers. Throughout his career, Bill has gained extensive experience in management, engineering and training. He has generated and conducted training courses for many universities and for ISA. He has co-authored a patent and a commercial software package. In addition to this book, he has written three other books on instrumentation and controls, all published by ISA, with the last of the three an ISA best-seller in its first year of publication. Bill is now the president of Bergotech Inc., an organization specializing in teaching online engineering courses in a variety of disciplines.

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