Computer Automation Research Paper

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A separate form of automation involving computers is test automation, where computer controlled automated test equipment is programmed to simulate human testers in manually testing an application. This is often accomplished by using test automation tools to generate special scripts (written as computer programs) that direct the automated test equipment in exactly what to do in order to accomplish the tests. Another separate field of automation is home automation. This type of automation emerged in the early 1990’s. This type of automation is concerned with the controls of everything in a house, from lights and blinds through security and access system to heating, cooling, water supply and home theatre systems. A whole house system will gather …show more content…

Automation is now often applied primarily to increase quality in the manufacturing process, where automation can increase quality substantially. For example, automobile and truck pistons used to be installed into 0engines manually. This is rapidly being transitioned to automated machine installation, because the error rate for manual installment was around 1-1.5%, but has been reduced to 0.00001% with automation. Hazardous operations, such as oil refining, the manufacturing of industrial chemicals, and all form of metal working were always early contenders for …show more content…

They made every task, every works without any help. Later they began to do some simple (and later more complicated) machines, e.g. water wheels for lifting water from channels, mills (water and wind mills ) for milling corns, etc. They began to use animals to give their force, their power to get work machines, vehicles, etc. In the Sixth century the machines were able to do many tasks. Steam engines gave the mechanical energy to machines, but the man had to control every machine. What does it mean control? Control consists of some activities: observe the phenomena (speed of machine, pressure of steam, temperature of water, etc.), compute (decide) the needed activity (growing or reducing the amount of fuel), set the appropriate device (modify the setting of fuel valves). Generally, control has 3 parts: measuring, computing, setting. During evolution machines became more powerful, more quick, more precise, thus human control doesn't fit their tasks. It became necessary to control machines by other machines. This control is the automation. This is the short story of

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