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Singular automation

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automation (uncountable)

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

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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Wed Jun 23 07:52:37 2010

Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies reducing the need for human intervention. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas mechanization provided human operators with machinery to assist them with the muscular requirements of work, automation greatly reduces the need for human sensory and mental requirements as well. Automation plays an increasingly important role in the world economy and in daily experience.

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Tue Jul 27 08:34:06 2010

What would be the social impact of Automation of Elections in the Philippines?
Q. Since the ARMM elections in the country was dubbed as "generally successful", what are the assumptions of Filipinos related to the social impact of the said automation?
Asked by Beetle78 - Wed Oct 29 21:35:35 2008 - - 1 Answers - 1 Comments

A. what are you talking about.
Answered by leonguy300 - Wed Oct 29 21:42:44 2008

what is office automation and an everyday example?
Q. I have to write a paper about office automation and group collaboration for school but no matter what i read i still don't get it. can someone please explain it in the simplest terms possible with and example? Thank You.
Asked by phloofy11 - Wed Oct 17 21:52:58 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Automation is taking a job that a person used to do manually and having technology do it. As a broad example, an ATM is automated. It used to be that people HAD to go and see a teller whenever they wanted to deposit or withdraw money. Now, they can do it at an ATM (short for Automated Teller Machine). This creates efficiencies for the organization in that it saves on the labor it takes to keep up the customer service. However, it usually generates work on a different end. In this example, the organization now needs to hire someone to maintain the ATM, put money in it, take money out of it and balance it to make sure there is not missing or extra money. But this workload is much more efficient because it does not take as much labor… [cont.]
Answered by savvy_recruiter - Wed Oct 17 22:21:41 2007

Is automation and lack of adequate income worthiness to replace it the cause of recession?
Q. I watched a special that showed mining methods of today and how the machines, the automation is replacing manpower! It was astounding! Is our traditional earnings potential, our income worthiness on an average, being replaced by automation?
Asked by skahhh - Fri Aug 1 08:31:31 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I'm not sure what you mean by "income worthiness" but the answer is only in the most perverted way. Automation has made human labor in the extraction and manufacturing sectors much more productive. There are two results: 1. Physical goods are, in general, much cheaper than they have ever been in terms of the labor required to create them and in the labor required to pay for them. 2. Most people in the developed world do not work in manufacturing or extraction but in the services sector. One of looking at this is that since physical goods are so much cheaper, we have money left over for other goods - services. But, with the growing cost of energy, automation has become more expensive than before - manufactured items are getting more… [cont.]
Answered by simplicitus - Tue Aug 5 00:21:38 2008

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Automation is the use of control systems such as computers to operate industrial machinery and perform processes, replacing human operators. In the scope of industrialization, it is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas mechanization provides human operators with machinery to assist them with the physical requirements of work, automation greatly reduces the need for human sensory and mental requirements as well.

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