Yes, of course it's a good complement for industrial or laboratory automation, test automation, industrial control. There are loads of different ways to solve t

Yes, of course it's a good complement for industrial or laboratory automation, test automation, industrial control. There are loads of different ways to solve these kinds of things, and they are all used somewhere... But in bigger companies, there's the issue of standardisation: A company policy might mandate that all test-automation has to be done with LabView, so even a simple "dishwasher complexity" device might be implemented on a dedicated PC because it's just cheaper to shell out the $1000 for hardware than to re-train engineers to do Arduino on a $20 board. Or some other company (possibly more industrial automation inclinded) might do everything with Siemens-S7 controllers. This is why in reality you often see things setup with the apparently wrong tool for the job, but limiting the number of choices might make (business) sense.