This article gives an overview of the general concepts, underlying technologies, similarities,
and differences in the factory and building automation fields and explores issues and trends …

The authors and editors of this Handbook have attempted to fill a serious gap in the
professional literature on industrial automation. Much past attention has been directed to the …

The book begins with an overview of automation history and followed by chapters on PLC,
DCS, and SCADA–describing how such technologies have become synonymous in process …

This paper is a review of contemporary manufacturing technology, from both a US and world
perspective. It emphasizes the historical background current trends toward computerized …

In this paper we provide an overview of recent theoretical approaches and technologies that
respond to the fundamental challenges of modern factory automation. We classify these …

Since the wide adoption of Internet technologies in manufacturing automation, integration
has become one of the most advertised trends in the field. The concept of integration in …

In the last decades, industrial automation has become a driving force in all production
systems. Technologies and architectures have emerged alongside the growing …

Industrial production is increasingly driven by megatrends like globalization, product
individualization, shorter product life cycles and volatile markets. This means that production …

The Industrial Electronics Handbook, Second Edition, Industrial Communications Systems
combines traditional and newer, more specialized knowledge that helps industrial …

In our daily life we are more and more dependent on the latest technologies in electronics
and communication. Our mobile phones become powerful multimedia systems, our cars …