Future needs of the control theory in industries - report and topics of the control technology investigation in Japanese industry

Author

Takatsu, Haruo ; Itou, Toshiaki

Author_Institution

Control Syst. Center, Yokogawa Electr. Corp., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

4

fYear

1996

fDate

11-13 Dec 1996

Firstpage

4500

Abstract

This paper reports the current situation and future directions of control theory and control technology which have been practically applied to Japanese industries. The control technology committee of the Japanese Society of Instrument and Control Engineering (SICE) have carried out the investigation on the activities and control technology of Japanese industry. The committee sent 300 questionnaire letters to Japanese manufacturing companies and got 110 effective answers which include 150 application examples in the practical industries. After the inquiry, the committee visited the potential companies´ plants and interviewed the process and control engineers to confirm and get their views and comments on the subject studied

Keywords

control engineering; industrial control; technological forecasting; Japanese Society of Instrument and Control Engineering; Japanese industry; control engineering; control technology; control theory; future directions; survey; Chemical industry; Chemical technology; Control engineering; Control systems; Control theory; Electrical equipment industry; Industrial control; Instruments; Manufacturing industries; Production systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 1996., Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Kobe

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3590-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.1996.577570

Filename

577570