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Ted Van Sickle spent over fifteen years at Motorola as a microcontroller specialist. He now consults and teaches classes on software design and programming for microcontroller systems. He holds a MSEE from the University of Michigan. Introduces microcontrollers and describes their programming environment, offering tips on coding for microcontrollers Describes techniques to get maximum performance from your code Discusses the differences between 8-bit and larger microcontrollers, giving application examples and providing details on using different compilers Review "The book covers the essentials of C, programming actual microcontrollers, and discusses real world examples as well as theoretical models." --Embedded Systems Programming Product News "A must-read for engineers trying to get a handle on software issues . . . I get a constant stream of queries for introductory texts to the embedded-systems world. This is the book. It should be required reading even in computer curriculum, where embedded systems get virtually no mention." --EDN Summary: Title Should Be: Programming Motorola Microcontrollers Rating: 2 This book is written by a retired Motorola guy and it shows. Van Sickle all but ignores other processors and all of his examples are based on Motorola controllers and C compilers. He's also a bit out of date in many areas. Much of the book is centered around older (non-flash) Motorola parts. He mentions some of the newer ones here and there, but Read more...

The authors use their decades of experience and draw upon real-world examples to demonstrate that the application of their techniques provides a basis for equipment management, uptime maximization, and reduced maintenance costs. The text explores reliability assessment techniques such as Failure Mode, Effect Analysis, and Fault Tree Analysis of commonly encountered rotating machinery. These are all highly effective techniques that the engineer can apply to maximize uptime and thereby maximize production and profitability. * Provides the tools to drastically improve machinery productivity and performance * Bridges the gap between the theory of "reliability engineering" and the practical day-to-day measures that lead to machinery uptime * Authoritative reference for maximizing the uptime of process equipment From the Back Cover [Gulf Professional Publishing] Engineering/Maintenance Engineering/Reliability Engineering Maximizing Machinery Uptime 5E Heinz P. Bloch Consulting Engineer, Montgomery, Texas Fred K. Geitner Professional Engineer, Ontario, Canada Provides the tools to drastically improve machinery productivity and performance Bridges the gap between the theory of reliability engineering and the practical day-to-day measures that lead to machinery uptime Authoritative reference for maximizing the uptime of process equipment This fifth edition of Maximizing Machinery Uptime continues with the authors extremely successful and highly respected Read more...

This updated edition is an invaluable source of practical cost-effective maintenance, repair, installation, and field verification procedures for machinery engineers. It is filled with step-by-step instructions and quick-reference checklists that describe preventive and predictive maintenance for major process units such as vertical, horizontal, reciprocating, and liquid ring vacuum pumps, fans and blowers, compressors, turboexpanders, turbines, and more. Also included are sections on machinery protection, storage, lubrication, and periodic monitoring. A new section examines centrifugal pumps and explains how and why they continue to fail. More new information focuses on maintenance for aircraft derivative gas turbines. This revised edition gives special attention throughout to maintenance and repair procedures needed to ensure efficiency, performance, and long life. Book Info Volume 4 of the Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants. An invaluable source of practical cost-effective maintenance, repair, installation, and field verification procedures for machinery engineers. DLC: Chemical plants - Equipment and supplies - Maintenance and repair. Read more...

Includes information on pump baseplate installation and grouting, repair and maintenance of mechanical seals, metal stitching, and managing rotor repairs at outside shops. Review An invaluable maintenance reference book. Read more...

This newly expanded edition discusses proven approaches to defining causes of machinery failure as well as methods for analyzing and troubleshooting failures. Shows plant engineers and maintenance personnel how to systematically analyze and troubleshoot machinery distress and component problems. Covers gears, rolling-element bearings, bolting, coupling and mechanical seals and more. DLC: Machinery maintenance and repair. Read more...

This totally revised, updated and expanded edition provides proven techniques and procedures that extend machinery life, reduce maintenance costs, and achieve optimum machinery reliability. This essential text clearly describes the reliability improvement and failure avoidance steps practiced by best-of-class process plants in the U.S. and Europe. Review The book begins with advice on writing a proper equipment specification, stressing the importance of getting and keeping complete installation, operation, and maintenance instructions. (Electrical Apparatus) Sets out proven techniques and procedures that extend machinery life, reduce maintenance costs, and achieve optimum machinery reliability in the petroleum processing industry. (SciTech Book News) Read more...

Digital Control of Electrical Drives offers insight into electric drives and their usage in motion control environment. It provides links among electrical machine and control theory, practical hardware aspects, programming issues, and application-specific problems. The book prepares the reader to understand the key elements of motion control systems, analyze and design discrete-time speed and position controllers, set adjustable feedback parameters, and evaluate closed-loop performances. Basic engineering principles are used to derive the controller structure in an intuitive manner, so that designs are easy to comprehend, modify, and extend. Digital Control of Electrical Drives helps the reader acquire practical skills in designing discrete-time speed and position controllers. Each chapter is followed by a set of MatlabR and SimulinkR tools which help readers master the phases of design, tuning, simulation, and evaluation of discrete time controllers, and foresee the effects of control solution on the overall motion control system. Readers will also understand the present performance limits of digital motion controllers. Contents Preface 1 Speed Control 1.1 Basic structure of the speed-controlled system Problems 2 Basic Structure of the Speed Controller 2.1 Proportional control action 2.1.1 Open-loop and closed-loop transfer functions 2.1.2 Load rejection of the proportional speed controller 2.1.3 Proportional speed controller with variable reference 2. Read more...

From the Back Cover Digital control systems are becoming increasingly prevalent and important within industry. In recent years significant progress has been made in their analysis and design - particularly within the areas of microprocessors and digital signal processors. The traditional approach to teaching digital control assumes an understanding of analog control theory; Digital Control, however, teaches the fundamentals of the topics, assuming no prior knowledge of control engineering. Organised into five sections, it discusses modelling, signal processing and identification of plants from measurements, as well as the transfer function approach to, and state space techniques for, control design. * Teaches the fundamentals of digital control, enabling the student to exploit the complete potential of digital systems. * Presents a number of control techniques including proportional-integral-derivative (PID), pole placement, internal model, minimum variance, model predictive and linear quadratic Gaussian control and their extensions. * Provides an extensive introduction to digital signal processing, an essential component to the understanding and implementation of digital controllers; and to the identification of plant models, an important topic in this information era. * Includes examples, problems and solutions as well as accompanying MatLAB code. Digital Control offers an advanced and self-contained textbook to senior undergraduates and postgraduates in chemical Read more...

English Grammar in Use Third edition is a fully updated version of the classic grammar title. It retains all the key features of clarity and accessibility that have made the book so popular with students and teachers. This new edition is designed to be flexible. The book is available both with and without answers, so it can be used in class or for homework. The 'with answers' version of the book comes with a handy pullout reference panel which allows students to review key grammar points Read more...