Mechanical design and automation is a comprehensive technical subject to study the enterprise management of all kinds of industrial mechanical equipment and electromechanical products from design, manufacture, operation control to production process. Based on mechanical design and manufacturing, it is an interdisciplinary subject of computer science, information technology and automatic control technology.

The main task of mechanical design and its automation is to use the theories and methods of advanced design and manufacturing technology to solve complex technical problems in the field of modern engineering and realize intelligent design and manufacturing of products.

With the intersection, penetration and integration of high and new technologies such as microelectronics, information technology, computer technology, material technology and new energy technology with mechanical design and manufacturing technology, the traditional mechanical design and manufacturing technology has made a qualitative leap on the original basis, forming a contemporary advanced design and manufacturing technology, which is both inherited and greatly developed compared with the traditional mechanical design and manufacturing technology.