Laboratory information management system (LIMS) – software package that offers a set of key features that support a modern laboratory's operations.
Human machine interface (HMI) – operator level local control panel that monitors field devices.
Artificial neural network (ANN) – mathematical model or computational model that is inspired by the structure or functional aspects of biological neural networks.
Friendly artificial intelligence – an artificial intelligence that has a positive rather than negative effect on humanity, and the field of knowledge required to build such an artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence – the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it.
Robot – a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control.
Process control – a statistics and engineering discipline that deals with architectures, mechanisms and algorithms for maintaining the output of a specific process within a desired range.
Mass production was popularized in the 1910s and 1920s by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company, which introduced electric motors to the then-well-known technique of chain or sequential production.
History of mass production – Prerequisites of mass production were interchangeable parts, machine tools and power, especially in the form of electricity.
It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works.
Cognitive science – interdisciplinary scientific study of the mind and its processes.
Cybernetics – the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems.
Office automation – the varied computer machinery and software used to digitally create, collect, store, manipulate, and relay office information needed for accomplishing basic tasks such as business process automation and robotic process automation.įields contributing to automation.
Home automation – control system of a home.
A building automation system (BAS) is an example of a distributed control system.
Building automation – advanced functionality provided by the control system of a building.
Autonomous automation – autonomous software agents to adapt the controllers of computer controlled industrial machinery and processes.
Robotics – the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots and computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing.
Numerical control (NC) – refers to the automation of machine tools that are operated by abstractly programmed commands encoded on a storage medium, as opposed to controlled manually via handwheels or levers, or mechanically automated via cams alone.
Industrialization – period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one.
Industrial control system (ICS) – encompasses several types of control systems used in industrial production, including supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, distributed control systems (DCS), and other smaller control system configurations such as skid-mounted programmable logic controllers (PLC) often found in industrial sectors and critical infrastructures.
Control system – a device, or set of devices to manage, command, direct or regulate the behavior of other devices or systems.
11 Persons influential in the field of automation.