- •(Англійська мова)
- •A Man and Computers
- •What is a Computer?
- •Language.
- •Oral Practice.
- •Reading and comprehension.
- •Internet
- •Oral practice.
- •Reading.
- •Computers: Software and Hardware
- •Supplementary reading. Today’s Astonishing Computers
- •Modern Computer Technologies
- •I. Vocabulary.
- •II. Reading.
- •Operating Systems
- •III. Language.
- •IV. Oral practice.
- •V. Reading and Comprehension.
- •Text b Windows 98
- •VI. Oral practice.
- •VII. Reading.
- •The Operating System
- •Disk Operating Systems
- •VIII. Supplementary reading. Bill Gates – the Founder of Microsoft
- •Electronics
- •Electronics
- •Reading and comprehension.
- •The World of Microelectronics
- •Vι. Oral practice.
- •Vιι. Listening and comprehension.
- •Advantages of Computer Communications
- •Reading and writing.
- •Electronics Helps Man
- •Automation
- •II. Reading.
- •Automation
- •Language.
- •Comprehension.
- •Oral practice.
- •Reading and comprehension.
- •Types of Automation
- •Automation
- •2. Programmable
- •About Automation
- •Robots in Industry
- •Application of robots
- •Inspection
- •V. Reading and comprehension.
- •How Robots Appeared
- •Vι. Oral Practice.
- •Vιι. Reading and writing.
- •Robotics Today
- •The Factory of the Future
- •The Factory of the Future
- •V. Reading and Comprehension.
- •Automatic Plants in Industry
- •Timing – (тут) синхронізм, узгодженість дій.
- •Vι. Oral Practice.
- •Vιι. Reading and writing.
- •The Fully-automated Factory
- •My Future Specialty
- •II. Reading.
- •My Future Speciality
- •III. Oral Practice.
- •IV. Reading.
- •The Future of Cybernetics
- •V. Comprehension.
- •VI. Oral Practice.
- •VII. Reading.
- •A Role for ai
- •Supplementary reading Personal Computer
- •Automated Factory Update
- •Automation Systems
- •Current Emphases in Automation
- •Three Basic Steps of the Computer
- •Processing
- •The Automatic Control System
- •Man and Machines
- •To press a button – натискати кнопку.
- •What is Automation?
- •History of Industrial Robotics
- •Storage Technologies
- •Electronic Mail
- •Floppy Disks
II. Reading.
Exercise 7. Read and translate Text A.
Automation
Automation is performing certain tasks, previously done by people, by machines only. The sequences of operations are controlled automatically. The most familiar example of a highly automated system is an assembly plant for automobiles or other complex products.
Automated manufacturing had several steps in its development. Mechanization was the first step necessary in the development of automation.
Industrial robots, originally designed only to perform simple tasks in environments dangerous to human workers, are now widely used to transfer, manipulate, and position both light and heavy workpieces performing all the functions of a transfer machine.
In the 1920s the automobile industry for the first time used an integrated system of production. This method of production was adopted by most car manufacturers and became known as Detroit automation.
The feedback principle is used in all automatic-control mechanisms when machines have ability to correct themselves.
Using feedback devices, machines can start, stop, speed up, slow down, count, inspect, test, compare, and measure. These operations are commonly applied to a wide variety of production operations.
Computers have greatly facilitated the use of feedback in manufacturing processes. Computers gave rise to the development of numerically controlled machines. The motions of these machines are controlled by punched paper or magnetic tapes. In numerically controlled machining centers machine tools can perform several different machining operations.
More recently, the introduction of microprocessors and computers has made possible the development of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacture (CAD and CAM) technologies. When using these systems a designer draws a part and indicates its dimensions with the help of a mouse, light pen, or another input device. After the drawing has been completed the computer automatically gives the instructions that direct a machining center to machine the part.
Another development using automation are the flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). A computer in FMS can be used to monitor and control the operation of the whole factory.
Language.
Exercise 8. Match words in column A with words in column B:
aid a. автоматизація
automation b. датчик
handling c. замінювати
previously d. контролювати
sensor e. обробка
sequence f. допомога
environment g. послідовність
to monitor h. пристрій
to substitute i. весь
whole j. раніше
device k. навколишнє середовище
Exercise 9. Fill in the blanks using the right variant in brackets:
The most familiar example of a highly automated system is ... (assembly plant, transfer machine, feedback devices).
An integrated system of production for the first time was used in ... (chemical industry, automobile industry, mining industry).
The first step necessary in the development of automation was ... (computers, FMS, mechanization).
Computers gave rise to the development of ... (mechanization, equipment reprogramming, numerically controlled machines).
Abbreviations CAD and CAM stand for ... (computer-aided devices and computer-aided mechanization, computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing, complex automated device and controlled automated machines).