Industrial data processing

This field of computing technology is a branch of applied computer science which covers the whole of the techniques of design and of programming of computerized systems which are not computers (programmable logic controllers, automated systems, intelligent instruments, etc.). The products concerned contain at least one microprocessor or one microphone-controller, as well as couplers (component of input-output).

Another current definition is that industrial data processing gathers those programs whose variables represent physical quantities like, for example, the temperature of a tank or the position of a robotic arm.