 Welcome to the course on industrial automation and control. This is a course which is going to be of about 40 hours duration. There are there are material will be provided for about 40 hours. This course material is originally prepared for NPTEL and this course material will be adapted as we go along. We will add assignments and we will also add a few lectures which will update the material. So this course is essentially about about the workings of the equipment that you typically find in an in an in an industrial plant. It will initially begin with the basic rational of industrial automation. What does it achieve? Why is it important? And then it will go on to first describe basically it will describe some typical measurement systems that are used because industrial automation heavily depends on measurement for various functions. After we learn about the basics of measurement systems it will go on to describe the fundamentals of control systems and within control systems we will within control systems we will include both analog controls which is conventionally taught in third-year level courses but we will discuss some advanced versions of it particularly process control which is used in for things like chemical processes. We will also use we will also describe what is known as sequence control or logic control which is a which is a type of control which is widely used in the industry. Having described that we will talk about actuators various kinds of actuators hydraulic actuators pneumatic actuators we will talk about industrial drives which are the basic type of electric actuator that you have that you find in the factory. After describing various types of actuators we will go on to talk about talk something about you know industrial embedded systems embedded and communication systems which are employed to you know communicate between sensors actuators controllers etcetera and finally we will describe some applications of these one of the major applications that we described is numerically controlled machines which are used for manufacturing primarily because they are very commonly found in factories. So this is the more or less the the course plan my name is Siddharth Mukhopadhyay I am a professor of electrical engineering of IIT Kharagpur. I will be teaching this course and Mr. Drupath Bishash who is a research scholar of of IIT Kharagpur will be acting as the teaching assistant for this course. So that is that is all as an introduction we shall meet as the course progresses. Thank you very much.