Overview of Industrial Process Automation Second edition

Аннотация

Over the past few decades, the emphasis in industry worldwide has been to produce goods or deliver services which are of quality, consistency, and cost-effective, to stay in the market. Quality, consistency, and competitiveness cannot be achieved with- out automating the process of manufacturing goods and of delivering services. In line with this trend, the application of automation today is omnipresent in almost all applications, from deep water sea to space, and has gained the confidence of the world for achieving desired results. Over the years, automation technology has advanced along with various other technologies. The main driving and enabling technologies are information, communication, networking, and electronics.