Automation has a great success because of its huge benefits, such as, increasing productivity, quality and safety at low costs. Also you will witness the newest in intelligent manufacturing where the smart factories use the technology to be automated, where machines are networked with each other, able to diagnose and solve problems; production become more seamless, from planning all the way to actual operations till delivering finished goods to warehouse for distribution through autonomous machines.

A series of workshops, seminars parallel with conference sessions to discuss Africa’s needs in terms of control systems, information technologies for handling different processes and machineries in an industry to replace a human being. It is the second step beyond mechanization in the scope of industrialization.