Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Know About Industrial Automation in Brief

Industrial automation is becoming an important process in manufacturing systems, because automated machines handle repetitive tasks quickly and efficiently. Automated systems used in industries compute the difficult tasks that can not be done by workers.

Industrial Automation refers to the control of industrial machinery to carry out industrial processes. It reduces the need of human intervention for the production of goods and services.

Various control systems such as programmable logic controller, distributed control system and industrial control systems and numerical control systems are used in industrial automation process.

To control the automated machinery, information technology system like computer systems are generally used by industries.

The break down of parts in the machinery, that is used in industries happens very often, and engineers take care of the maintenance and handle the repairs to make the machinery run smoothly.

The workers in the company need to close on certain days and they must be given an extra income for overtime whereas Industrial automation allows to run the plant all days without any overtime payment.

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