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Technological processes control automated systems

Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas mechanization provided human operators with machinery to assist them with the muscular requirements of work, automation greatly decreases the need for human sensory and mental requirements as well. Automation plays an increasingly important role in the world economy and in daily experience.

Technological processes control with use of automated systems includes the solution of the following main objectives: processes` parameters control (temperature and pressure in the apparatuses, content and quality of liquids and gases, etc.); alarm system (warning, preventing) of the parameters` values deviation beyond the permissible limitsо; blocking (inhibiting) of improper equipment switching; equipment protection in emergency situations (switching off, the placement into a safe mode).

Production processes automation begins with the definition of problem which determines the level (degree) of the specific object automation, such as process installation. Hereby determines the direction of all future work, its scope and cost of expenditures, in particular, the acquisition and implementation of automation. The important thing in solving of the automation problem is the selection of the control system, i.e. determination of the degree of people's participation in the management, use of automatic devices, computer equipment. 

Automation has had a notable impact in a wide range of industries beyond manufacturing. 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 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 much has been responsible for the shift in the world economy from industrial jobs to service jobs in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Vocabulary:

  • sera – сыворотка

  • switchboard – коммутатор

1. Answer the questions:

  1. What is the automation?

  2. Why do we need automatic devices?

  3. What tasks do technological processes control?

  4. Do production processes of automation begin with the definition of problem?

  5. What is the important thing in solving of the automation problem?

  6. Automated teller machines have reduced the need for bank visits to obtain cash, haven’t they?

  7. What is the next step of development after the automation?

  8. How can automation affect the level of unemployment?

  9. Why are automated systems better than human being?

2. True or false:

  1. Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to increase the need for human work in the production of goods and services

  2. Automation doesn’t play an increasingly important role in the world economy and in daily experience.

  3. Automation of production processes begins with the formulation of the problem.

  4. Automation increases the need for human sensory and mental requirements.

  5. Telephone operators have been replaced largely by automated telephone switchboards and answering machines.

  6. Automated teller machines have reduced the need for bank visits to obtain cash and carry out transactions.

  7. In general, automation much hasn’t been responsible for the shift in the world economy from industrial jobs to service jobs in the 20th and 21st centuries.