Automation Equipment

instruments, devices, and technical systems for the automation of production. Automation equipment provides for the automatic receipt, transmission, conversion, comparison, and use of information for the monitoring and control of production processes. In the USSR a systematic approach to the construction and utilization of automation equipment—grouping and standardizing the equipment according to functional, informational, and design characteristics—has made it possible to consolidate all automation equipment under the State System of Industrial Instruments and Automation.