Design of Automatic Machinery (Mechanical Engineering (Marcell Dekker))

The book covers many interesting topics, but rather superficially. It tells you about the various aspects related to design of automatic machinery, but not enough about anything so that you can actually apply it in designing machinery. Even the case studies do not get to technical details and are mainly descriptive.

So, if you just want to know the names of the various aspects of automation and a description of what the names mean, this book is fine. If you actually want to design something, it is disappointing.