This handbook is designed as a comprehensive reference for the industrial automation engineer. Whether in a smallor large manufacturing plant, the industrial or manufacturing engineer is usually responsible for using the latest andbest technology in the safest, most economic manner to build products. This responsibility requires an enormousknowledge base that, because of changing technology, can never be considered complete. The handbook willprovide a handy starting reference covering technical, economic, certain legal standards, and guidelines that shouldbe the ®rst source for solutions to many problems
