Industrial Electronics (IE) discipline includes a wide variety of technical areas devoted to the application of electronics and electrical sciences for the enhancement of industrial and manufacturing processes. It inherently acts as a key enabling technology for a diverse number of applications and includes latest developments in intelligent and computer control systems, robotics, factory communications and automation, flexible manufacturing, data acquisition and signal processing, vision systems, and power electronics, among others. This makes IE inherently multidisciplinary, and with many interdisciplinary synergies, playing a key role as an enabling technology in multiple domestic, biomedical, transportation, and industrial applications. This paper covers recent advances and future trends in those areas that support the cross disciplinary view of industrial electronics, including electronic systems on chip, standards, resilience and security matters, human factors and educational aspects. The main current state-of-the-art technologies and techniques are presented, and their future trends and challenges are discussed, focusing on the cross disciplinary view inherent to industrial electronics.

No abstract

How to build a sustainable society in view of industrial electronics has been discussed from energy, information and communication technologies, cyber-physical systems (CPSs), and other viewpoints. This paper presents a cross-disciplinary view that integrates the fields of human factors, professional education, electronic systems on chip, resilience and security for industrial applications, technology ethics and society, and standards. After explaining the efforts and challenges in these fields, this paper shows a methodology for crossdisciplinary technology that integrates the technical committees in Cluster 4, Industrial Electronics Society. A project, which was launched in March 2020, implements a 'Proof of Concept' trial of the methodology.INDEX TERMS Cross-disciplinary technology, electronic systems on chip, human factors, resilience and security for industrial applications, professional education, technology ethics, standards, sustainable society.

No abstract