industrial automation

industrial automation

1. Industrial automation is a technology that is used through control systems such as computers, robots, information technologies, for the automatic operation of different machinery.

2. Characteristics of Industrial Automation

   • Lower operating costs: Vacation, healthcare, and bonus costs associated with a human worker are eliminated
   • High productivity: satisfies a company's goal, allowing the manufacturing plant to operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.
   • High quality: minimizes human error. In addition, robots do not have any type of exhaustion, resulting in products of uniform quality, even manufacturing them at different times.
   • High flexibility: if a new task is added to the assembly line, it will be required for the human operator to undergo training.

3. Types of Industrial Automation

   • Fixed automation It is used to execute repetitive and fixed operations in order to achieve high production rates.
   • Programmable Automation It is a form of automation for the manufacture of products in batches. Products are manufactured in batches ranging from several dozen to several thousand units at a time.
   • Flexible automation This system provides automatic control equipment, which provides great flexibility to make changes for each product.

4. Examples of Industrial Automation

   • Automation at Audi At the Audi plant in Germany, the number of robots is almost equal to 800 employees. They do most of the heavy lifting, as well as potentially dangerous welding, and tediously repetitive testing.
   • Mazda Motor Corporation: This company uses robotics to increase productivity without any risks to human operators.
   • It uses intelligent software called T-ONE, which connects the company's logistics processes in order to monitor operations and optimize them.