The IFAT consists of four chairs, which are covering all essential category groups of the automation technology, of the measurement technology, coming from the synthesis until the realisation technologies in research and teaching.

Topics of the Integrated Automation are:

• digital fabrication with the topics PLT engineering, virtual commissioning, industrial communication
• assistence of complex technical systems with the topics semantics and ontologies, attributes and product data, data based analysis
• cooperative distributed systems with the topics interaction pattern, Industry 4.0