In recent years, industrial joysticks has been widely used in many industrial and manufacturing industry, such as; cranes, assembly lines, forestry equipment, mining trucks and excavators. In fact, this can cope with high demand lever in nearly all modern hydraulic control system actually replaces the traditional mechanical lever.

Since the industrial joystick is used frequently do menial work, so the work is more durable than a typical video game joystick. This results in the 1980s, Hall-effect sensors in this regard the development and use of non-contact sensors. Several companies produce using Hall effect technology for industrial application lever.

Now, industrial joysticks are particular for tower cranes, mobile devices, industrial control, remote control and radio, radar and navigation systems, robots and manipulators, measurement systems, heavy mobile machinery, medical equipment, closed-circuit television camera control system ship steering system, entertainment consoles, studio or ballroom lighting equipment, studio cameras lifting platform, heavy machinery, vegetation trimming machinery, agricultural machinery, suspension vehicles, road construction equipment, forklifts, scissor lifting machinery, observatory , drilling, shooting ranges, military equipment, machinery arched ship steering systems.

Some manufacturers in China, also can supply standard and specialized joysticks for markets. like RunnTech is standard control lever and customized industrial joystick control lever manufacturer in China.