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Applying Automation control system into Your Industry

Automation control system refers to control industrial processes by computers. In other words, this system is a step ahead of mechanization. Mechanization requires manual operators for the machines to improve efficiency. But in the industrial control panel, it is the system itself that manages to facilitate the work and processes of any industry or organization. It reduces the need for manual assistance. The requirement of the human spirit and the mind is less stressed in the control system automation.

In today’s global economy, the control system automation would play a very important role. The automation engineers create a system that combining the tools of automation organization devices. Industrial control system makes possible a number of human activities and applications. But control of automation has not become widespread. Those jobs still need manual expertise. Computers play the main role in the control of automation. There are several levels of calculations according to their effectiveness. To facilitate control of automation, computers are designed to allow synchronization between input and out. It results in a controlled mechanism for an industrial process. These enhanced forms of computers are known as programmable logic controllers.

To be precise control of the automation uses the computer interface or human-machine interface. It will communicate with programmable logic controllers and a few other computers that perform specialized functions in various industrial processes. The main purpose of this system today is to improve product quality. Automation such as temperature control system is also increasingly applied to increase the flexibility of the manufacturing process. But there is dark side of the automation system is although this reduces the risk of human error, reducing the need for manual labor, but a greater dependency has increased the risk of more serious consequences and more serious in the factory system. Look from all of these, human is still number one to take controls in industrial processes.

Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger

Just finished reading David Weinbergers excellent “Everything is Miscellaneous“. David sums it up nicely in a companion essay on Amazon:

As businesses go miscellaneous, information gets chopped into smaller and smaller pieces. But it also escapes its leash–adding to a pile that can be sorted and arranged by anyone with a Web browser and a Net connection. In fact, information exhibits bird-like “flocking behavior,” joining with other information that adds value to it, creating swarms that help customers and, ultimately, the businesses from which the information initially escaped.

I think the same idea can be applied not just to information, but also to functionality. We are seeing this with the gadgetization of the enterprise. Let’s take the first part of David’s paragraph and adapt it to this:

As businesses go miscellaneous, functionality gets chopped into smaller and smaller pieces. But it also escapes its leash–adding to a pile that can be sorted and arranged by anyone with a Web browser and a Net connection.

Once functionality is broken down into small pieces, users can create their own “applications” out of functionality that is meaningful just to them. This functionality is delivered in the form of a gadget, which can be placed on e.g. an iGoogle page. For example, an accounting person can include a gadget on their iGoogle page that just shows the outstanding invoices for a particular customer, and allows them to accept payment through the gadget. An insurance agent may include a gadget that shows which of their clients have birthdays today and provides different ways to communicate with them from within the gadget. There is no need for the user to access the underlying applications that house this functionality. All that is needed are the small pieces of functionality that the user can put anywhere, in a way that makes the most sense to them (as opposed to what makes sense to IT).

This is just the start of the move towards gadgetization. The future will bring simple ways to (to borrow a phrase from David’s earlier book) loosely join gadgets into more sophisticated applications where they can work together in unison. This is different from a mashup, which wikipedia defines as a web application that combines data from more than one source into an integrated experience.

By complete coincidence, we happened to get a support question from David last week. He was moving his Gmail account using our gXFER product. He blogs about his experience here. We had a brief chat about using labels in Gmail. As you would expect, David treats the bulk of his mail as “miscellaneous” and uses search to find what he needs. The beauty of having Google search in Gmail…