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Summary Of: Automation
automation is a step beyond... Automation plays an increasingly important role in the... effective than mechanical approaches even where automation of industrial tasks is possible... Automation has had a notable impact in a wide range of highly visible industries beyond manufacturing... automation has been responsible for the shift in the world economy from agrarian to industrial in... The widespread impact of industrial automation raises social issues... Historical concerns about the effects of automation date back to the beginning of the industrial revolution... When automation was first introduced... Critics of automation contend that increased industrial automation causes increased unemployment... and that automation has led to... automation might appear to devalue... Today automation of the workforce is quite advanced... What role automation has played in these changes has not been well studied... the purpose of automation has shifted from increasing productivity and reducing costs... The old focus on using automation simply to increase productivity and reduce costs was seen to be short... the initial costs of automation were high and often could not be recovered by the time entirely new manufacturing processes... Automation is now often applied primarily to increase quality in the manufacturing process... where automation can increase quality substantially... Another major shift in automation is the increased emphasis on flexibility and convertibility in the manufacturing process... Sometimes and some kinds of automation implies improves in economy of enterprises... when an enterprise that has invested in automation technology recovers its investment... The automation of a new... although the cost of automation is spread in many product batches... It is commonly thought that automation implies unemployment because the work of a human being is replaced in part or completely... automation implies more free time instead of unemployment like the case with the automatic washing machine... Automation does not imply unemployment when it makes tasks unimaginable without automation such as exploring mars... The costs of automation to the environment are different depending on the technology... Automated manufacturing refers to the application of automation to produce things in the factory way... Most of the advantages of the automation technology has its influence in the manufacture processes... A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge... IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering... Encyclodia Page On: Automation
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