automation

Examples of automation in the following topics:

• Work and Technology

  • It has created a situation in which workers who perform easily automated tasks are being forced to find work that is less automated.
  • In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization.
  • 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.
  • Automation is one of the ways in which the modern technology has impacted the workplace.

• Resolving Problems Quickly

  • A service automation platform includes a suite of support solutions including proactive support, assisted support, and self support.
  • Automation of service organizations aim to achieve, for example, lower mean time to repair (MTTR) .
  • Automated assisted support enables remote access to sites that need instant problem solving.
  • By automating the collection of information of devices and applications coexisting with the supported application, problems can be quickly detected and fixed.Automated self support, automates the self support process, freeing users from self-help diagnostics and troubleshooting from online libraries or knowledge bases.
  • Describe how automation and tech support tools are used to resolve customer service issues

• The Changing Face of the Workplace

  • First, it has created a situation in which workers who perform easily automated tasks are being forced to find work that is less automated.
  • Jobs traditionally associated with the middle class (assembly line workers, data processors, foremen, and supervisors) are beginning to disappear, either through outsourcing or automation.
  • There is another way in which the Information Age has impacted the workforce: automation and computerization have resulted in higher productivity .
  • As industry has become increasingly automated, it has become more cost-effective for companies to use robot labor rather than manpower.
  • Examine the impact of the Information Age on the workforce, from automation to polarization

• Effects of Technology on Services

  • Sales force automation (SFA) uses software to streamline the sales process.
  • Many SFA applications include insights into opportunities, territories, sales forecasts and workflow automation.
  • Automation is the use of machines, control systems and information technologies to optimize productivity of goods and the delivery of services.
  • Automation technology has been introduced to many different industries such as food service, mining, retail, industrial, home land security, building services, medical procedures and more.
  • Technology sits squarely in the center of automation with most equipment controlled and governed by computer programs and software platforms.

• Warehousing

  • Some warehouses are completely automated, and require only operators to work and handle all the tasks.
  • Pallets and products move on a system of automated conveyors, cranes, and automated storage and retrieval systems coordinated by programmable logic controllers and computers running logistics automation software.
  • These systems are often installed in refrigerated warehouses where temperatures are kept very cold to keep product from spoiling, especially in electronics warehouses where they require specific temperatures to avoid damaging the parts, and also where land is expensive, as automated storage systems can use vertical space efficiently.
  • Automated storage systems can be built up to 40m high.

• DNA Sequencing Based on Sanger Dideoxynucleotides

  • The ddNTPs may be radioactively or fluorescently labelled for detection in automated sequencing machines.The DNA sample is divided into four separate sequencing reactions, containing all four of the standard deoxynucleotides (dATP, dGTP, dCTP and dTTP) and the DNA polymerase.
  • Dye-primer sequencing facilitates reading in an optical system for faster and more economical analysis and automation.
  • The later development by Leroy Hood and coworkers of fluorescently labeled ddNTPs and primers set the stage for automated, high-throughput DNA sequencing.
  • Automated DNA-sequencing instruments (DNA sequencers) can sequence up to 384 DNA samples in a single batch (run) in up to 24 runs a day.
  • Automation has lead to the sequencing of entire genomes.

• The Automation Ratio

  • As a rule of thumb, automating a common task is worth at least ten times the effort a developer would spend doing that task manually one time.
  • What makes automation compelling is that the small burden is multiplied by the number of times each developer incurs it, and then that number is multiplied by the number of developers.
  • The minimum standard automation required to run a project these days was described in Technical Infrastructure, but each project may have its own special problems too.
  • Automated test runs are helpful for any software project, but especially so for open source projects, because automated testing (especially regression testing) allows developers to feel comfortable changing code in areas they are unfamiliar with, and thus encourages exploratory development.
  • This situation was due to a failure on all our parts to consider the automation ratio.

• Technology decisions

  • Automated machinery, programmable equipment, and management information systems can provide speed, low unit processing costs, labor cost savings, increased accuracy and consistency, and sophisticated tracking and decision support systems to increase operations efficiency and effectiveness for both manufacturing and service environments.
  • For example, if a manufacturing company believes that automation will increase the firm's flexibility to adapt to a changing competitive environment, questions should be asked, such as:
  • Deere managers use a mix of low technology/labor intensive production methods and automated/programmable technologies in its manufacturing plants.

• The Factory System

  • In the 1780s, Oliver Evans developed an automated flour mill which relied on pulleys, elevators, and conveyor belts, improving upon traditional gristmills.
  • Other factory owners adopted Lowell's practices of providing housing and other living necessities for the workforce, and using semi-automated machines in a centralized factory building or complex.
  • Evans' automated flour mill featured labor-saving elevators, pulleys and belts, an improvement on traditional gristmills.

• Complete Blood Count

  • Sometimes the sample is drawn off a finger prick using a Pasteur pipette for immediate processing by an automated counter.
  • Now, this process is generally automated by use of an automated analyzer with only approximately 30% of samples being examined manually.