ABSTRACT
In Chapter 2 we looked at the Steps to Automation, where we needed to discover
the appropriate process that was to be implemented by the automation machinery
yet to be designed. These steps helped to establish the best way to do something,
but not how the machine should be configured. One could envision a totally novel
machine configuration to solve such a problem, but this is a great undertaking. It
may be better to first look at commonly found configurations, and investigate the
best available choices before becoming very creative. There are many com-
ponents of these commonly found layouts that are readily available, and should
be more cost-effective and timelier compared to starting from scratch.
