Precision Mechanical Engineering Applications of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
J. J. Zilverschoon · 1972
Until the Second World War the uses of electrical and mechanical engineering were mainly confined to electric motors to drive machines, simple controls and alarms, and various forms of heating. Industrial electronics, now of growing importance in mechanized production processes, evolved during and more rapidly since the war. A relatively new aspect of this is computerized process control in which the characteristic features of electronic aids such as speed, flexibility, accuracy, absence of wear and suitability for remote control are put to good use. Although the limited reliability of complex systems in particular was a drawback initially, electronic aids have now become wholly reliable thanks to the subsequent improvement in quality of the necessary professional components and the replacement of electron tubes by transistors.