Intelligent manufacturing

These are hierarchical systems used within a factory for handling information, monitoring, and controlling physical processes. They include commonly used systems such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and Fieldbus Control Systems (FCS).

Apart from basic functionality, it has additional features such as digital communication, configuration, optimization, diagnostics, and maintenance. These devices or equipment have the capability of sensing, analyzing, reasoning, decision-making, and control.

Data describing the basic engineering characteristics of a designed or manufactured product. Examples include the product's physical shape, dimensions, and other descriptive information.

Using digital and visual methods to address issues and design algorithms related to complex control.

Enterprises use sensors, instruments, barcodes, RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification), machinery, and devices to implement actual physical processes and perceive and control the hierarchical physical processes.

By means of system integration, data interoperability, human-machine interaction, flexible manufacturing, and information analysis optimization, it achieves efficient, closed-loop exchange, transmission, storage, and processing of information at all stages, from product design to sales, from equipment control to enterprise resource management, in a discrete manufacturing factory.