■Industrial electronics play a vital role in improving the efficiency and productivity of industries like energy, transportation, petroleum, chemical, semiconductor, mining, agriculture, and others.
■As a branch of electronics dealing with power electronic switches, sensors, actuators, meters, Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), automation equipment, semiconductors, nanotechnology, etc., current emphasis is placed on power conditioning using Power Semiconductor Devices in modernizing industry technology.
■ It covers all of the methods and procedures of: control systems, instrumentation, mechanism and diagnosis, signal processing and automation of various industrial applications.
■The main and important research areas of industrial electronics are electrical power machine designs, power conditioning and power semiconductor devices.