(griech.)Grad der durch Automatisierung erreichten techn. Entwicklung.
A highly technical implementation; usually involving electronic hardware; SYN. mechanization, mechanisation, high technology, high-tech.
Control of machines by other machines, electronic devices, etc., instead of by human beings.
Widespread use of self-regulating machines in industry. Automation involves the addition of control devices, using electronic sensing and computing techniques, which often follow the pattern of human nervous and brain functions, to already mechanized physical processes of production and distribution; for example, steel processing, mining, chemical production, and road, rail, and air control.