Factory automation is a broad relative concept. An automated factory should do the following:

The first is to have an internal network of modern information management system, which realize factory production through the network, information acquisition and processing, financial, personnel, technology and equipment such as computer automation management;

The second is the automation of production equipment, that is, the individual equipment is controlled by computer, and automatic transmission is realized in the production process.

The third is to build a "flexible production system", which means a new kind of processing equipment with a new variety and less mass production. This system is easy to adapt to design changes and changes in the shape and quantity of the processed objects. The system can be small and large, consisting of several industrial robots, numerical control machine tools and control devices, monitoring computers and unmanned transport vehicles, which can form the whole production line. Small ones can complete all kinds of processing and production tasks independently;

The fourth is the product design and production process automation design, and adopt the method of computer aided design, such already save design time and cost, and greatly improve the production efficiency;

The fifth is to set up an automated warehouse, which is a necessary condition for realizing factory automation. Of a factory automation management of raw materials, semi-finished products and finished products, not only can improve space utilization efficiency, reduce the management cost, also can make goods access become orderly, once the show out some kind of raw material, purchasing department will immediately get information, timely replenish onr's stock.

Automation "unmanned automatic factory" in the factory, is a high degree of automation of factory automation, all above conditions it is not only, and also has a automatic warehouse, raw materials, semi-finished products and finished product automatic transmission line and the modernization of information management system, make the production line staff to reduce to a minimum. Except a few maintenance personnel is needed for the whole production process of the production line personnel to participate in, can produce continuous 24 hours a day continuously, the product quality is stable and reliable, production efficiency is high.