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Editor’s Note
AUTOMATED
VISTAS OF
THE SMART
FUTURE
n engineering manager, D.S. Harder, from the Ford
AMotor Company, coined the term Automation in
1946. He wanted to describe it as the concept
where automatic devices and controls were increasingly
used in mechanized production lines. The term itself is
inspired by the word Automatic.
From there on, the term automation is widely used in a
manufacturing context. However, coming into the present,
its usage, scope, and applications outside manufacturing are
widening. It is applied to a variety of systems where there is
a significant replacement for human effort and intelligence
by mechanical, electrical, or computerized actions.
In simple terms, automation can be defined as a technology
in which a process is performed by pre-programmed
commands blended with an automatic feedback control
loop so that the instructions are correctly executed. The
resulting system operates like us without any human
intervention.