FA is factory automation.
FA means factory automation, also known as shop floor automation. It refers to the nature of automating all or part of the processes involved in the manufacture of a product: it refers to the comprehensive automation of an entire factory.
It includes the automation of processes such as design, manufacturing and processing, and the comprehensive automation of information flows such as internal enterprise management, market information processing, and inter-enterprise information links.
It is listed as one of the six leading new technologies of our time, together with information and communication, office automation, new materials, bio-engineering, and health care and medical technology. It is routinely composed of a variety of processing automation equipment and flexible production lines connected with computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing system, coordinated under the unified management of the central computer, so that the entire factory production to achieve integrated automation.
Factory automation development history:
Since the 21st century, "people-oriented", "energy saving and environmental protection" concept is y rooted in people's hearts, factory automation has put forward new requirements. Requirements. With the computer technology, wireless technology, fieldbus technology, industrial Ethernet technology, IT technology, robotics, sensor technology and safety technology and other science and technology continues to develop and innovate.
Factory automation has gone through several important stages such as stand-alone automation, shop floor automation, and factory-wide centralized control, and is now moving towards integrated factory automation, i.e., the integration of process control, supervisory control, product design, quality monitoring, and factory management into a single system.
The use of modern control theory, large systems theory, artificial intelligence, 4C technology, to achieve optimal control, hierarchical control, decentralized control, test automation, building automation, information processing and business decision-making automation, in order to further improve efficiency, quality and safety, energy and raw material savings.