The scope of the Industrial Automation and Control Committee shall be the treatment of all matters
within the scope of IAS in which the emphasis or dominant factor specifically relates to manufacturing
and factory automation, including the application of industrial electrical and electronic devices,
systems and methods to the conversion, regulation and utilization of electricity for the control of
industrial processes, machinery and heating. Included are applications of transducers, sensors,
power electronics, motor control, drive systems, programmable logic controllers, distributed control
systems, computers, robotic, vision system and control systems software to machines and manufacturing
processes.
Objective
The objective of the Committee shall be to strive for the advancement of the theory, standards and
practice of industrial control as related to the design, operation and installation of equipment
within the defined scope of the Committee, in consonance with the Constitution and Bylaws of the IEEE
and the IAS. As the means of achieving the stated objective, the Committee shall promote close
cooperation and exchange of technical information among its members and those of other committees
and groups within the IAS, shall hold meetings for the presentation and discussion of technical papers
within its scope, shall provide for the needs of its members by stimulating research, initiating
and developing voluntary engineering standards and recommended practices, and shall sponsor tutorials
and panel discussions as deemed appropriate.
