Definitions for automation
ˌɔ təˈmeɪ ʃənau·to·ma·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. automation, mechanization, mechanisationnoun

   the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware

   "automation replaces human workers by machines"

2. automationnoun

   the condition of being automatically operated or controlled

   "automation increases productivity"

3. automationnoun

   equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation

   "this factory floor is a showcase for automation and robotic equipment"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. automationnoun

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

2. Etymology: From automatic (coined by a Ford Motor Company leader in the 40s)

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1. Automation

   Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely 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 benefit of automation includes labor savings, reducing waste, savings in electricity costs, savings in material costs, and improvements to quality, accuracy, and precision. Automation includes the use of various equipment and control systems such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers, and heat-treating ovens, switching on telephone networks, steering, and stabilization of ships, aircraft, and other applications and vehicles with reduced human intervention. Examples range from a household thermostat controlling a boiler to a large industrial control system with tens of thousands of input measurements and output control signals. Automation has also found space in the banking sector. In control complexity, it can range from simple on-off control to multi-variable high-level algorithms. In the simplest type of an automatic control loop, a controller compares a measured value of a process with a desired set value and processes the resulting error signal to change some input to the process, in such a way that the process stays at its set point despite disturbances. This closed-loop control is an application of negative feedback to a system. The mathematical basis of control theory was begun in the 18th century and advanced rapidly in the 20th. The term automation, inspired by the earlier word automatic (coming from automaton), was not widely used before 1947, when Ford established an automation department. It was during this time that industry was rapidly adopting feedback controllers, which were introduced in the 1930s.The World Bank's World Development Report of 2019 shows evidence that the new industries and jobs in the technology sector outweigh the economic effects of workers being displaced by automation. Job losses and downward mobility blamed on automation have been cited as one of many factors in the resurgence of nationalist, protectionist and populist politics in the US, UK and France, among other countries since the 2010s.

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1. automation

   Automation refers to the use of systems, machines, or technologies to perform tasks that would otherwise require human manual input. This can involve a variety of tasks, from simple mechanical processes to complex decision-making functions, all aimed at increasing efficiency, reducing errors, and improving productivity or performance. Automation can be applied in various fields like manufacturing, computer systems, industrial processes, and more.

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1. Automation

   Automation is the use of machines, control systems and information technologies to optimize productivity in the production of goods and delivery of services. The correct incentive for applying automation is to increase productivity, and/or quality beyond that possible with current human labor levels so as to realize economies of scale, and/or realize predictable quality levels. In the scope of industrialisation, automation is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas mechanization provides human operators with machinery to assist them with the muscular requirements of work, automation greatly decreases the need for human sensory and mental requirements while increasing load capacity, speed, and repeatability. Automation plays an increasingly important role in the world economy and in daily experience. Automation has had a notable impact in a wide range of industries beyond manufacturing. Once-ubiquitous telephone operators have been replaced largely by automated telephone switchboards and answering machines. Medical processes such as primary screening in electrocardiography or radiography and laboratory analysis of human genes, sera, cells, and tissues are carried out at much greater speed and accuracy by automated systems. Automated teller machines have reduced the need for bank visits to obtain cash and carry out transactions. In general, automation has been responsible for the shift in the world economy from industrial jobs to service jobs in the 20th and 21st centuries.

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Automation

   Controlled operation of an apparatus, process, or system by mechanical or electronic devices that take the place of human organs of observation, effort, and decision. (From Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 1993)

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of automation in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of automation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of automation in a Sentence

1. Chief Executive Brian Moynihan:

   It's a constant reduction in personnel through hard work and automation.

2. David Greenberg:

   The focus started to shift back to being capable of using the automation as an assist to reduce workload in the right circumstance, but being capable also of taking over and flying the old way, in Asia, it's very normal to rely, in my view, excessively on automation.

3. Petri Virrankoski:

   There's a growing interest towards more automation, but obviously in these times money is tight, so I wouldn't say it's easy to sell anything nowadays.

4. Sandeep Aggarwal:

   AI is a paradigm shift. Hope we embrace it vs on the mercy of others. It is automation raise to the power infinity and much more...

5. Walter Odisho:

   I would look at material flow, I would look at processes, I would look at the design of the airplane with people in mind - how the work would be performed. I would design the airplane with specific areas of automation in mind.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=automation
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Automation
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=automation