Application of Industrial Automation in Manufacturing Industrial automation can also be referred to as automatic control; it is the use of different control systems to operating industrial equipment like factory processes, machineries, aircrafts, ships stabilization and steering, an switching of telephone networks among others with the aim of reducing human intervention. Note that, as the Internet of Things continue to heighten, some industrial processes have been automated completely where they are executed without human intervention. Industrial automation is achieved through different means such as; electrical, computers, mechanical, pneumatic, electronic, and hydraulic that are applied in together in some cases. For instance, complicated systems like ships, aircrafts, and some modern factories make use of all these automation techniques to ensure effective and high performance.
Though industrial engineers always worked towards achieving fully automated industries, the industrial automation wave hit in the 1980’s when car manufacturer introduced the lights out car manufacturing technology. The idea was triggered by the need to out-do competitors by automating their factories and leaving all the hard car manufacturing tasks to robots. Application of industrial automation in manufacturing