Automation of human technological processesworried for a long time. History shows that he started this long before the advent of machines, equipment, robots and conveyors. The natural ability to understand what is happening, make decisions and do it repeatedly using a single algorithm and in most everyday tasks became the initial reason for the long-term development of the industry, which, unlike others, quickly extended its influence to all spheres of human activity.
General picture
What is automation determines beforealtogether, the considered area of the socio-economic space. It is difficult to imagine the technological process of production of cars without a conveyor, which involves dozens of robots, waiting for parts from other automated divisions.
Производство, с экономической точки зрения - the process of processing raw materials into the finished product, which, in addition to the actual process, is characterized by the need to automate the supply of raw materials, supply tools and materials, organize the work of the warehouse, ship the finished product.
At one time, the writing of programs was subjected to certification and standardization; both the procedure for preparing the terms of reference and the stages of its implementation were defined.
Analyzing the achieved results, it can be stated: what automation is, it became clear, but it is not always clear what to do next.
Stable areas
Даже на давно работающих производствах нет четкой confidence that the achieved level of automation technology has entered the final stage, from which there is nowhere else to go. However, you can often be convinced of the opposite.
Production of engines for railwaytransport, when he was still on the steam engine, became perfect, but was replaced by an internal combustion engine, and the idea that automation on the railway lost its original meaning, but only in a certain part of certain industries.
The gasoline engine did not yield, but moved,when it became possible to use electric traction. Probably, in the foreseeable future, the production of railway transport will finally abandon the engines, and it will move by means of pneumatic and / or electromagnetic force - this is the natural completion of the development of technology for moving something along precise routes at a specific time.
The railroad is an illustrative example of a stable sphere in which everything develops precisely according to the objectively available results of other technologies.
Prospective areas
However, even in rail transport there is a massuncertainties and opportunities for improving technological processes. For example, traffic is a serious mathematical problem. With the growth of passenger and cargo traffic, with an increase in the railway network, traffic management has become a truly endless task, which is developing both in terms of baseline data and in relation to the timetable scheduling algorithm at a specific time.
Inventions, accompanying automation processes,turned out to be the subject of the theory of TRIZ, which at the time of its appearance could have become a truly dramatic leap forward, but the slowness of the surrounding socio-economic space and inertia of beliefs at that time did not allow this to happen.
Always and everywhere once created machine, robot,an automaton or another element of the automation technology was improved without the help of TRIZ, which the creators could not make available primarily because of their own misunderstanding, how to put it, how to automate the obvious.
In this regard, it is characteristic that TRIZ is the resultgeneralization of automation processes, and the development of a specific machine is a private matter. If the machine today began to work at a qualitatively higher level, then its creators took into account a new understanding of objective reality.
Information technology - the result of developmentautomation in its highest form. Computer and programming have given life to CNC machines and the ability to fly unmanned vehicles and into space, and just above the ground, automatically performing many useful functions. It is characteristic that the UAV appeared much later than the first satellite flew into orbit.
Intellectual beginning: from natural to artificial
Что такое автоматизация и что такое искусственный intelligence? Two concepts that live their own lives, the latter being the breeding ground of the first. Idealists build a theory, compose fantastic works about the creation of the mind, analyze the consequences of his coming, design talking robots, or do something else, such as completely useless.
Practitioners automate the work of a person in any of hisform, at a specific point in time, and through specific tools. The influence of idealists is not so obvious, but much more globally. No one thought that Ryazan Province would give Tsiolkovsky’s world, which would provide the Queen with the opportunity to launch Gagarin into space, but how many people took part at all stages of this complex technological process. How many amazing inventions, discoveries, robots, machine tools, materials came into being.
Computing as a basis not only inin the field of automation of technologies and production, but also for the development of the scientific and technical process, will certainly change the face of the concept of what automation is. But above all, it must change itself: for too long its technologies remain at the level of the last century. The outer shell is not the essence of things, but only a means of communicating ideas with the surrounding space.
The latter must understand the first, but in the process of misunderstanding, to give the idea a difficult path so that it can grow stronger.
