What is Automation?
Automation is delegation of human control functions handover to technical equipment. For increasing productivity, increasing quality, reducing cost.
Types of Automation
- Fixed Automation
- Flexible Automation
- Programable Automation
Advantages
- Improved working environment
- Increased competitiveness, sales and profit
- No labour crisis
- Increase production capacity
- Increase production capacity
Disadvantages
- Heavy Capital expenditure
- Loss of jobs
- Strain on eyes
- Demand skill updating
- Poor customer service
Application
- In Automated power production
- In Mining
- In Highway systems
- In Waste management
- Industrial robotics
Limitation
- Current technology is unable to automate all the desired tasks.
- As more and more processes become automated, there are fewer remaining non-automated processes.
- Many operations using automation have large amounts of invested capital and produce high volumes of product.
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