Factory automation
The Factory Automation is a discipline within the automation technology, which deals with the automation of factories using technical machines. The factory automation is concerned with the totality of surveillance, control, regulation and optimization facilities within factories and is in a similar sense application-oriented oriented as building automation.
Special topics of factory automation are, inter alia:
- Robotics
- Conveying and handling equipment Vacuum Handling
- CAD ( computer -assisted drawing, design )
- CAM ( computer aided manufacturing )
- CAP ( computer-aided manufacturing planning and control )
- CAQ (Computer aided quality assurance)
- CNC manufacturing
- BDE ( data acquisition )