Automation majors include mechatronics technology, electrical automation technology, industrial process automation technology, intelligent control technology, industrial network technology, industrial automation instrumentation, hydraulics and pneumatics, elevator engineering technology, and industrial robotics.
Automation technology is widely used in industry, agriculture, the military, scientific research, transportation, commerce, medicine, services, and the home.
The adoption of automation technology can not only liberate people from heavy physical labor, part of the mental labor, as well as harsh and dangerous working environment, but also expand the function of human organs, greatly improve labor productivity, and enhance the ability of human beings to understand the world and transform the world. Therefore, automation is the industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology modernization of the important conditions and significant signs.
The development trend:
The development of modern production and science and technology puts forward higher and higher requirements for automation technology, and at the same time provides the necessary conditions for the innovation of automation technology. after the 70's, automation began to the development of complex system control and high-level intelligent control, and is widely used in national defense, scientific research and economy and other fields, to achieve a higher level of control. and economy and other fields, to realize a larger scale of automation.
For example, the comprehensive automation system of large enterprises, the national railroad automatic dispatching system, the national power grid automatic dispatching system, air traffic control system, urban traffic control system, automated command system, national economic management system. The application of automation is expanding from the engineering field to non-engineering fields, such as medical automation, population control, economic management automation.