Automation

Automation

Abstract :

Automation can be defined as a technology concerned with performing a Process by means of programmed commands combined with automatic feedback control to ensure proper execution of the instructions. The resulting system is capable of operating without human intervention. The development of this technology has become increasingly dependent on the use of computers and computer-related technologies. Consequently, automated systems have become increasingly sophisticated and complex. Advanced systems represent a level of capability and performance that surpass in many ways the abilities of humans to accomplish the same activities. Automation is dynamic technology that represents continues revolutionary process that began a decades ago. It is also process of technological development that will proceed in to the foreseeable future. Automation is key to shorten week work. There has been a trend toward fewer working hours and more leisure time. Around the turn of century the average week work was about 70 hrs/week and currently it is 40 hrs.The argument holds that automation will allow the average number of working hrs/week to continue to decline.

This article covers the fundamentals of automation, including its historical development, principles and theory of operation, applications in manufacturing and in some of the services and industries important in daily life, current emphases of automation, and impact on the individual as well as society in general.

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