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    Automation is the use of control systems like computers to control industrial machinery and processes, reducing human intervention. It goes beyond mechanization by replacing human involvement with logical programming commands using computer-based control systems. The merits of automation include increased productivity and speed of operation, improved product quality and accuracy from reducing human errors, and raised safety levels by substituting humans in hazardous conditions. However, automation also has demerits like higher initial costs, limited economic applications, complex programming and understanding, and requiring skilled personnel for maintenance.

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    Automation is the use of control systems like computers to control industrial machinery and processes, reducing human intervention. It goes beyond mechanization by replacing human involvement with logical programming commands using computer-based control systems. The merits of automation include increased productivity and speed of operation, improved product quality and accuracy from reducing human errors, and raised safety levels by substituting humans in hazardous conditions. However, automation also has demerits like higher initial costs, limited economic applications, complex programming and understanding, and requiring skilled personnel for maintenance.

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    Automation is the use of control systems like computers to control industrial machinery and processes, reducing human intervention. It goes beyond mechanization by replacing human involvement with logical programming commands using computer-based control systems. The merits of automation include increased productivity and speed of operation, improved product quality and accuracy from reducing human errors, and raised safety levels by substituting humans in hazardous conditions. However, automation also has demerits like higher initial costs, limited economic applications, complex programming and understanding, and requiring skilled personnel for maintenance.

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    What is automation? Write its merits and demerits.

    Automation or industrial automation is the use of control systems such as computers


    to control industrial machinery and processes, reducing the need for human
    intervention. The word Automation gives the meaning self dictating or a mechanism
    that move by itself that derived from the Greek
    words Auto and Matos whereauto means self while Matos means moving.Automati
    on takes a step beyond mechanization. Mechanization is the manual operation of a
    task by human operators using machinery.On the other hand, automation replaces
    the human involvement with the use of logical programming commands using
    computer based control systems.
    Merits:
    1. To increase productivity: Automation of factory or manufacturing or process
    plant improves production rate through a better control of production.
    2. Improved speed of operation: It helps to produce mass production by
    drastically reducing assembly time per product with a greater production
    quality.
    3. To provide optimum cost of operation: Integration of various processes in
    industry with automated machineries, minimizes cycle times and effort and
    hence the need of human labor gets reduced. Thus the investment on
    employees has been saved with automation.
    4. To improve product quality: Since the automation reduces the human
    involvement, the possibility of human errors also gets eliminated.
    5. Improved Accuracy: Uniformity and product quality with a greater conformity
    can be maintained with automation.
    6. To reduce routine checks: Automation completely reduces the need for
    manual checking of various process parameters. By taking advantage of
    automation technologies, industrial processes automatically adjusts process
    variables to set or desired values using closed loop control techniques.
    7. To raise the level of safety: Industrial automation increases the level of
    safety to personnel by substituting them with automated machines in
    hazardous working conditions. Traditionally, industrial robots and robotic
    devices are implemented in such risky and hazardous places.
    8. Provides flexibility of operation: Manufacturers can easily switch from
    production of product A to production of product B.

    Demerits:
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    Higher initial Costs


    Economic Limits
    Difficult to program
    Complex to understand
    Requires highly skilled personnel for maintenance

    Components of automation

    Input from field: switches, sensor signals of proximity sensor, pressure sensor,
    speed sensor,temperature sensor
    Output to field : control of on & off of motors, speed control of motors, industrial
    lighting control, alrams, tanks filling control, pressure control in boilers, production
    control, change of product parameters, industrial heating control, traction control
    of vehicles
    Controller: it takes the control decision depending upon the input signals and
    program fed in its memory,plc,dcs,pid
    Supervisory control: it is the highest level of control ,it allows overriding of control
    parameters in the controller, providing various accesses,scada,hmi

    Plc,types, aPPLICAtuions,catalog number cable name,selection criteria,digital and


    analog io
    A programming logic controller is an industrial computer control system that
    continuously monitors the state of input devices and makes decision based upon a
    custom program to control the state of output devices

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