Introduction of New Technologies into Industrial Automation

Automation is driven by technological innovation and has continually reinvented itself over the past few decades. Automation integrates new technologies and methods to make them usable for industrial applications. The goal of this chapter is to provide conceptual models, backgrounds, and decision points in the implementation of automation engineering for practical applications. These questions are of course far-reaching, and they can only be touched upon briefly here. However, this chapter offers a taste of the ways in which new technologies can enter the domain and how they might be introduced in practical terms.