automation
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Automation is the use of machines and systems designed to operate with minimal human involvement, allowing facilities like power plants to function with very few workers controlling them. It matters because it can make industrial operations more efficient and require fewer people to manage large, complex infrastructure.
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- History
- Early history
- Industrial Revolution in Western Europe
- 20th century
- Significant applications
- Space/computer age
- Advantages, disadvantages, and limitations
- Paradox of automation
- Limitations
- Current limitations
- Societal impact and unemployment
- Lights-out manufacturing
- Health and environment
- Convertibility and turnaround time
- Automation tools
- Cognitive automation
- Recent and emerging applications
- CAD AI
- Automated power production
- Agricultural production
- Retail
- Food and drink
- Construction
- Mining
- Video surveillance
- Highway systems
- Waste management
- Business process
- Home
- Laboratory
- Logistics automation
- Industrial automation
- Industrial Automation and Industry 4.0
- Industrial robotics
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Agent-assisted automation
- Control
- Open-loop and closed-loop
- Discrete control (on/off)
- PID controller
- Sequential control and logical sequence or system state control
- Computer control
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- Further reading
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Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines. Automation has been achieved by various means including mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, electronic devices, and computers, usually in combination. Complicated systems, such as modern factories, airplanes, and ships typically use combinations of all of these techniques. The benefits of automation includes labor savings, reducing waste, savings in electricity costs, savings in material costs, and improvements to quality, accuracy, and precision.