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Everything about Automation

Use of various control systems for operating equipment

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. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: AutomationA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: AI-Based Modeling: Techniques, Applications and Research Issues Towards Automation, Intelligent and Smart SystemsInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The Enchanted TypewriterThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Trust in Automation: Designing for Appropriate RelianceCited 4,421 times
  5. Go sideways: Outline of automationA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Automation technicianA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun The act or process of converting the controlling of a machine or device to a more automatic system, such as computer or electronic controls.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. History
  2. Advantages, disadvantages, and limitations
  3. Lights-out manufacturing
  4. Health and environment
  5. Convertibility and turnaround time
  6. Automation tools
  7. Cognitive automation
  8. Recent and emerging applications
  9. Control

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

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