Industrial automation technology is a kind of comprehensive high technology, which uses control theory, instruments, computers and other information technologies to detect, control, optimize, dispatch, manage and make decisions in the industrial production process, so as to increase production, improve quality, reduce consumption and ensure safety. It includes industrial automation software, hardware and system. As one of the most important technologies in the field of modern manufacturing in the 20th century, industrial automation technology mainly solves the problems of production efficiency and consistency. Both high-speed mass manufacturing enterprises and enterprises pursuing flexibility, flexibility and customization rely on the application of automation technology. Automation system itself does not directly create benefits, but it plays an obvious role in improving the production process of enterprises

(1) improve the safety of production process;

(2) improve production efficiency;

(3) improve product quality;

(4) reduce the loss of raw materials and energy in the production process.

According to the statistics of consulting agencies, the output ratio of automation system input and enterprise efficiency is about 1:4 to 1:6. Especially in capital intensive enterprises, automation system accounts for less than 10% of the total equipment investment, which plays a role of "four Liang Qian Jin". The traditional industrial automation system, i.e. mechatronics system, is mainly used to control the equipment and production process, that is, the mechanical body, power part, test and sensing part, actuator, drive part, control and signal processing unit, interface and other hardware elements are coordinated, organically combined and integrated under the guidance of purposeful information flow of software program and electronic circuit logic, Form the orderly and regular movement of material and energy, thus forming industrial automation system or products.

In the field of industrial automation, the traditional control system has experienced the development process of base type pneumatic instrument control system, electric unit combined analog instrument control system, centralized digital control system and distributed control system DCS.

With the development of control technology, computer, communication, network and other technologies, the field of information interaction and communication is rapidly covering from the field equipment level of the factory to all levels of control and management. Industrial control computer system generally refers to the industrial production process and its mechanical and electrical equipment, process equipment for measurement and control of automation technology tools (including automatic measuring instruments, control devices). Today, the simple understanding of automation has also changed to: the use of generalized machines (including computers) to partially or completely replace or surpass human physical strength.

Source: Zhongshan Industrial Automation http://www.sc2012robot.com/