The development of industry observed in recent years has caused an increase in the complexity of the technological processes and tightening of the requirements regarding the quality and efficiency of production.
The strong competition between the largest industrial companies necessitates the use of increasingly modern, safer, and more reliable systems of control and production management.
There is a universal tendency towards the automation of industrial enterprises, involving the replacement or reduction of human physical and mental work through the use of machines, performing certain repeatable activities automatically.