Factory automation

The Factory Automation is a discipline within the automation technology that deals with the automation of factories using technical machines busy. Factory automation deals with the totality of monitoring - control - usually - and optimization facilities within factories and is in a similar sense geared to application as building automation .

Automated production for the production, slicing and packaging of cheese

Special topics in factory automation include a .:

• robotics
• Conveying and handling technology
  • Vacuum handling
• Pneumatics , hydraulics and electromechanics
• Mechatronics
• Actuators
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing
  • CAD (computer-aided drawing, draft )
  • CAM (computer-aided manufacturing )
  • CAP (computer-aided production planning and control )
  • CAQ (computer-aided quality assurance )
  • CNC manufacturing
  • BDE ( data acquisition )

See also

• Factory planning
• Project planning