1 Introduction

With the wide application of automation technology in people's production and life, automation technology rises. Automation in China originated from "electrification of industrial enterprises", one of the first majors established during the adjustment of colleges and departments in 1952, which started relatively late. Therefore, there are relatively few talents in the field of automation in China, and there is still a large gap compared with developed countries. Because of the wide application of automation technology, the number of people engaged in automation and automation related majors has gradually increased, and the level of automation technology has also been greatly improved. After years of development, there are now more than 400 colleges and universities with automation specialty in China. China's engineering colleges and universities basically have automation majors or automation related majors. Automation involves a wide range of fields, such as automatic control principle, signal analysis and detection, motor drive and control, power electronics technology, microcomputer principle and interface technology, PLC, single chip microcomputer, process control, motion control, modern control theory, etc. Many of these technologies will have a significant impact on society. Therefore, it is of great significance to set up automation specialty and study automation related technology.

2 overview of Automation Specialty

In recent years, due to the wide application of automation technology, the number of people engaged in automation and automation related majors has gradually increased, and automation technology has made great development. The market of automation specialty has developed rapidly and occupies an important position in social development. The market prospect is very broad.

3. Characteristics of Automation Specialty

(1) It has a wide range of learning knowledge, a solid learning foundation, and a wide range of professional and industry counterparts. Thus, it helps to cultivate senior talents with solid professional foundation, innovative ability, open thinking and wide range of knowledge. This is also consistent with the goal of talent training in China.

(2) Automation has a long history and a sound development system.

(3) Automation major is a course that pays more attention to experiment. Students need to do it by themselves and cultivate their ability of doing it. The combination of theory and practice is conducive to better grasp the knowledge in the field of automation.

(4) Automation specialty is produced because of the needs of the country. It is a specialty that is slowly broadened to the professional caliber guided by market development. And in different stages of national development, automation specialty will make some adjustments to adapt to national development, with distinctive Chinese characteristics. Therefore, automation specialty conforms to the trend of social development and is bound to have an important impact on society, economy and life.

(5) The research of automation needs many methods and ideas, which will undoubtedly have more or less impact on future academic research, work and life. Each discipline has its own characteristics. If these characteristics are integrated and applied, it will make the thought more rigorous, open and innovative.

4 development prospect of Automation Specialty

(1) Automation technology is widely used in business, computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing, medical treatment, agriculture, comprehensive office automation, transportation, process control, national defense, automatic instruments and meters, artificial intelligence technology, services, scientific research, family and other aspects. With the widespread application of automation technology, people can no longer do repetitive and meaningless physical labor, and automation technology can also replace a considerable part of mental labor. It greatly saves people's time, enables people to engage in more meaningful work and study other technologies, greatly improves production efficiency, improves people's ability to understand the world, and enhances people's ability to transform the world at the same time. Therefore, automation technology plays an important role in the development of human society. Automation technology is for the whole industrial field. It naturally connects traditional industry with modern industry, and has become an essential key technology to transform information technology and management technology into real productivity.

(2) With the development of automation, it will be intelligent. Intelligent control theory is used to solve the control problems of complex systems. Today's society is a society combining information and intelligence, and artificial intelligence plays an important role. The development of artificial intelligence has greatly facilitated people's life, and the development of artificial intelligence is inseparable from automation technology. From the things around us, we can find that automation technology is widely used in business, computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing, medical treatment, agriculture, comprehensive office automation, transportation, process control, national defense, automatic instruments and meters, artificial intelligence technology, services, scientific research, family and other aspects.

(3) We can also accelerate the development process of modern industry through automation, so as to save more resources, reduce product production costs and obtain more social and economic benefits. Increasing investment in automation can make China's automation technology develop faster, make automation technology more mature, gradually narrow the gap with developed countries, and better serve the society and the people.

(4) Automation belongs to the information industry. The information industry is known as the "sunrise industry" and the "engine" for us to enter the information age. It has good development prospects and is the trend of the development of modern science and technology. Therefore, as an important member of the information industry, automation will also develop better and better and have a broad future.

(5) The combination of standardization and personalization is more conducive to the development of automation specialty. The development trend of automation specialty is to combine hardware and software. With unified standards, an industry can facilitate mutual communication and bring more opportunities. At the same time, enterprises should unify their own personality and standards to promote their own development.

(6) In the field of automation, many processes are automatic without human participation. However, the maintenance of automation equipment needs professionals. With the rapid development of automation technology, automation equipment will become more and more sophisticated and complex, which requires highly professional talents to repair. Therefore, in the near future, automation professionals will be more and more popular. Talents with rich professional knowledge trained by colleges and universities can not only promote the expansion of automation, but also promote the development of automation in new fields.

5 Conclusion

With the development of artificial intelligence and people's demand for higher quality of life, automation is bound to receive more attention all over the world in the foreseeable future. The application scope of automation is more and more extensive, and it also plays a great role in the life of ordinary people, which greatly facilitates people's life. At the same time, automation technology also plays a great role in promoting economic development. With the continuous development of China's economy and society and the gradual maturity of technology, I believe that China's automation technology will be more and more advanced and develop more widely.