Overview
- Introduces a new scientific approach to control systems, in a logical way, using the symbols of Systems Thinking
- Builds a foundation for understanding how control systems truly operate and in recognizing, simulating and improving them in all fields of activity
- The 2nd Edition includes chapters on biological environment, quality and productivity, and control of stocks and costs
Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Magic of the Ring
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents a new understanding on how control systems truly operate, and explains how to recognize, simulate, and improve control systems in all fields of activity. It also reveals the pervasive, ubiquitous and indispensable role of control processes in our life and the need to develop a “control-oriented thinking”—based on uncomplicated but effective models derived from systems thinking—that is, a true “discipline of control.” Over the book’s thirteen chapters, Piero Mella shows that there are simple control systems (rather than complex ones) that can easily help us to manage complexity without drawing upon more sophisticated control systems.
It begins by reviewing the basic language of systems thinking and the models it allows users to create. It then introduces the control process, presenting the theoretical structure of three simple control systems we all can observe in order to gain fundamental knowledge from them about the basic structure of a control system. Then, it presents the anatomy of the simplest “magic ring” and the general theoretical model of any control system. This is followed by an introduction to a general typology of control systems and a broader view of control systems by investigating multi-lever control systems and multi-objective systems.
The book undertakes the concepts through various environments, increasingly broader in scope to suggest to readers how to recognize therein control systems manifestations in everyday life and in natural phenomena. Updated for the 2nd edition, new chapters explore control systems regulating the biological environment and the organizations, with an in-depth study of the control of quality, productivity, production, stocks and costs. Finally, it concludes by dealing with the learning process, problem-solving, and designing the logical structure of control systems.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Magic Ring
Book Subtitle: Systems Thinking Approach to Control Systems
Authors: Piero Mella
Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64194-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64193-1Published: 02 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64196-2Published: 02 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64194-8Published: 01 April 2021
Series ISSN: 1568-2846
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 848
Number of Illustrations: 63 b/w illustrations, 250 illustrations in colour
Topics: Systems Theory, Control, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity, Complexity