Branch of electronics that deals with the design, development and application of electronics that drive the industry

The control and conversion of the electrical power by power semiconductor devices. It is also used to control electrical energy by electronic circuit.

(Year and Name) Textile machine operated by punch cards

(Year and Name) Numerical Engine

(Year and Name) Use of electronics for remote control model boat

(Year and Name) Designed motorized crane

(Year ) Introduction of mercury arc rectifier and metal tank rectifier

(Year and Name) Fleming valve, a vacuum tube rectifier

(Year and Name) Vacuum tube amplifier

(Year) Control of DC motor through vacuum tubes

(Year and Name) Semiconductor diode

(Year) Vacuum tubes replaced mechanical control circuits

first commercially made variable-speed AC motor (Year)

Invented transistor (year name)

invention of PNPN triggering transistor (thyristor) (year)

commercial availability of solid-state variable speed motor control system (year)

Developed integrated circuit 2nd electronic evolution began (year name)

semiconductors replace TV

First Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) (year name)

microprocessor (year name)

Introduced PC for home and office automation (year name)

robotics technology began(year)

64-bit microprocessor commercially available (year)

tag-based programmable logic controllers adopted by the industry (year)

device networks (DeviceNet, Foundation FIeld bus, Profibus, and Ethernet/IP are adopted by the industry (year)

wireless networks (year)