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Chapter 2. Lesson 2.1 What Is Automation

Automation is defined as making an apparatus, process, or system operate automatically without human intervention. It encompasses key elements and job functions in industries like manufacturing, transportation, facilities operations, and utilities. Some reasons for automating include relieving humans of time-consuming tasks, increasing production rates and efficiency, and ensuring physical specifications are consistently maintained. While automation can perform some functions more reliably and at lower cost than humans, humans still provide valuable roles in decision making, planning, and creative thinking.

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Chapter 2. Lesson 2.1 What Is Automation

Automation is defined as making an apparatus, process, or system operate automatically without human intervention. It encompasses key elements and job functions in industries like manufacturing, transportation, facilities operations, and utilities. Some reasons for automating include relieving humans of time-consuming tasks, increasing production rates and efficiency, and ensuring physical specifications are consistently maintained. While automation can perform some functions more reliably and at lower cost than humans, humans still provide valuable roles in decision making, planning, and creative thinking.

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AUTOMATION

Automation define as “the technique of making an apparatus, a process, or a


system operate automatically. ” From the word ‘”automatic” it works
automatically on its own or operating and working by itself without human
intervention and often with a very little interference.
We define automation as “the creation and application of technology to
monitor and control the production and delivery of products and services.”
Automation encompasses many key elements, systems, and job functions in
virtually all industries. It is especially prevalent in manufacturing,
transportation, facility operations, and utilities. Additionally, national
defense systems are becoming increasingly automated.
WHAT IS THE MAIN PURPOSE OF AUTOMATION

Some reasons for the decision to automate a system are;

• It relieve humans of time-consuming and


laborious tasks, speed the operation, increase
production rates,
• extend an operation to a longer
shift or even to continuous
production
• Reduce system
inefficiencies or ensure
physical specifications are
consistently maintained.
Automated operations are considered to be more efficient, reliable and
accurate than those carried out with human interaction and is often assumed
that a machine can perform a particular function at a lower cost than a
human being.
AUTOMATION
AUTOMATION
While many of these reasons are true to some extent and context, humans still provide the
valuable roles of decision-making, planning and creative thinking. These higher cognitive
functions, while still being further explored (artificial intelligence and neural networks), can
be assigned to humans better than machines. As mentioned in the abstract, humans are an
interactive component in the overall system and adapt, specialize and fill many roles in a
system’s operation, but this variability can be both positive and negative.
Theres another one who defines automation. According to PC Magazines, automation is
replacing manual operations with electronics computer controlled devices .
WHEN AND WHERE DOES THE WORD
AUTOMATION CAME FROM?

The term automation was coined in the automobile industry about 1946 to
describe the increased use of automatic devices and controls in mechanized
production lines.
IMPACT OF AUTOMATION IN TODAY’S
BUSINESSES
Today’s automation is an ever-present engine in various fields. It enables the
high bandwidth and low latency 5G requires for the effective use of drones
and self-driving cars, for example. It’s needed to operate farm tools and
program robots that deliver prescriptions at pharmacies.
Automation is not actually replacing the ability of the individual to work, it’s
replacing a certain task and, in most cases, giving that individual the chance
to work on something better.

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