时间过得真快,5年前本刊第一次提起“新自动化”概念时,一些我们现在已是熟知能详的事情那时几乎是刚刚起步:如工业以太网,如安全自动化,如完整的自动化解决方案。在当时,我们认为实现数字化、网络化制造是新自动化追求的终极目标,而开放性、智能性、角色多元性是新自动化的三大重要特征,如今看来,这些预言都已应验。在制造业有史以来最“火”的5年里,新自动化 Time flies, and when we first brought up the concept of “new automation” five years ago, something we knew now was pretty much just started: industrial Ethernet such as safety automation, Such as a complete automation solution. At that time, we believed that digitalization and networked manufacturing were the ultimate goals of the new automation. Openness, intelligence and diversity of roles were three important characteristics of new automation. These predictions have now been fulfilled. In the manufacturing industry’s most “fire” in the past five years, the new automation