what is industrial automation| pro's & con's about industrial automation
Today’s highly increasing competitiveness over the industry demands high quality and most consistent products at a competitive price. To address this challenge number of industries considering various new product designs and integrated manufacturing techniques in parallel with the use of automated devices.One of the remarkable and influential moves for getting the solutions to the above-mentioned challenge is industrial automation. Industrial Automation facilitates to increase the product quality, reliability, and production rate while reducing production and design costs by adopting new, innovative and integrated technologies and services.
INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION
industrial Automation is the replacement with computers and machines to that of human thinking. The word Automation gives the meaning ‘self dictating’ or ‘a mechanism move by itself‘ that derived from the GreekwordsAutoand Matoswhereautomea massif while Matos means moving.
In brief. industrial automation can be defined as the use of set technologies and automatic control devices that results in the automatic operation and control of industrial processes without significant human intervention and achieving superior performance than manual control. These automation devices include PLCs, PCs, PACs, etc. and technologies include various industrial communication systems.
WHY INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION
1. To increase productivity
Automation of factory or manufacturing or process plant improves production rate through better control of production. it helps to produce mass production by drastically reducing assembly time per product with greater production quality. Therefore, for a given labor input it produces a large amount of output.
2. To provide the optimum cost of operation
integration of various processes in an industry with automated types of machinery minimizes cycle times and effort and hence the need for human labor gets reduced. Thus the investment of employees has been saved with automation.
3. To improve product quality
Since the automation reduces human involvement. the possibility of human errors also gets eliminated. Uniformity and product quality with greater conformity can be Maintained with automation by adaptively controlling and monitoring the industrial Processes in at! stages right from the inception of a product to an end product.
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