Automation History Volume 7 Modern Automation

Modern Automation: The Rise of Connected Intelligent Systems

Discover how industrial robots, sensors, machine vision, networking, and software transformed manufacturing and logistics from 1990 to the present. This illustrated educational volume explains how modern robotic systems operate, why integration matters, and how automation connects machines, people, and information.

Volume 7 of the Automation History Illustrated Timeline Collection examines modern industrial robotics while recognizing its earlier origins in the 1960s.

Inside this digital volume

• Historical background of industrial robotics and modern connected production
• How robot arms, servo motors, encoders, controllers, and end effectors work
• Robotic workcells, PLC coordination, machine vision, and industrial safety
• Applications in manufacturing, material handling, and logistics
• Connections to collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots, digital twins, and predictive maintenance
• The Path to Modern Automation infographic, Quick Facts, Did You Know?, and scholarly references

Format: 12-page illustrated PDF. Delivery: Digital download; no physical item is shipped.

Part of an eight-volume educational series tracing the development of automation from early engineering to modern intelligent systems.