Automated manufacturing system refers to processing raw materials into parts or assembling parts into products with less manual direct or indirect intervention, and realizes management process and process automation during processing. The management process includes the optimal design of products; the preparation of procedures and the generation of processes; the organization and coordination of equipment; the planning and distribution of materials; and environmental monitoring. The technological process includes the loading and unloading, storage and transportation of the workpiece; the assembly, adjustment, transportation and replacement of the tool; the cutting, chip removal, cleaning and measurement of the workpiece; the transportation of the chips, the purification treatment of the cutting fluid, etc.

The automated manufacturing system includes rigid manufacturing and flexible manufacturing. The meaning of "rigid" means that the production line can only produce a certain type of product or a certain type of product with a similar production process, which is manifested in the unity of the product. Rigid manufacturing includes modular machine tools, special machine tools, rigid automated production lines, etc. "Flexibility" refers to the diversity and variability of production organization and production products and processes, which can be embodied in the flexibility of machine tools, product flexibility, processing flexibility, batch flexibility, etc. Flexible manufacturing includes flexible manufacturing cell (FMC), flexible manufacturing system (FMS), flexible manufacturing line (FML), flexible assembly line (FAL), computer integrated manufacturing system (CIMS), etc. The following is a classified introduction based on the production capacity and intelligence of the automated manufacturing system.