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TAB Professional and Reference Books is trying to sell me something called
_The Automated Factory Handbook, Technology and Management_, by David I.
Cleland and Bopaya Bidanda (832 pages, 250 illustrations, $69.95
hardcover).

The hype makes it look like the reference I wished I had two years ago.
If so, it could still be useful for future projects.

Does anyone out there know anything about it or its editors?  Opinions?
Recommendations?

While I'm at it, Addison-Wesley has a few interesting titles as well:

     Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, Serope Kalpakjian, (1989)
     1199 pages, $51.95 hardcover.

     Computer Control of Machines and Processes, J. G. Bollinger & N.
     A. Duffle, (1988) 544 pages, $53.95 hardcover.

     Digital Control of Dynamic Systems, G. F. Franklin, J. D. Powell,
     & M. L. Workman, (1990) 835 pages, $50.95 hardcover.

These all look interesting, but money's tight around here just now.  I'd
appreciate any reviews and recommendations I can get before I spend
upwards of $225 for books.

Thanks much.

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