The curious layman who is intrigued by how things are made will find this book readable. This book will interest an inquisitive student of engineering (electrical, electronics, mechatronics, or Electronics and Telecommunication) who wishes to explore beyond the content of a classroom textbook. It will also serve as a teacher’s handbook, helping the lecturer bring the flair of the industry to the classroom. Moreover, it will be useful for a practicing engineer, with cross-disciplinary knowledge that is needed to manufacture any real product and is not taught in engineering classes or even available in textbooks or reference books.

Here are some of the things you will learn about throughout the book:

• The role of machines, factories, and plants in manufacturing a product for daily use
• The manufacturing landscape and its continuous evolution
• Automation and its evolution – a look into the future
• Control challenges practically applied to manufacturing real-world products
• A philosophical consideration of automation
• Various applications of automation in a machine and its challenges
• Various implementation challenges
• Understanding how humans and automation work together in factories
• How the same control challenge is solved in different ways in different applications
• How terms such as Industry 3.0, 4.0, digitalization, and lean relate to each other