Automation the Key to Success

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Automation the Key to Success

• Cristian Craciun, Instructor and
• Lab Engineer of Engineering Laboratories
• and
• Paul P. Botosani, Ph.D., Professor and
• Director of Engineering Laboratories
• Fairfield University
• Fairfield, Connecticut

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Competition Laws

• Time is Money

Faster - Better - Cheaper
Efficiency - Quality - Cost
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Emerging Technologies

• Microelectronics
• Telecommunication
• Embedded System
• Web
• Nano Technology
• Mecatronics

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Emerging Technologies

• Smaller
• Smarter
• Sophisticated

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Need for Automation

• Improving the customer services
• Ensuring the survival of the Company

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Automation

• Software Automation
• Home Automation
• Automation in Industry

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Software Automation

• Automation is a COM (Component Object Model)
  -based technology that enables dynamic binding to
  COM objects at run time.
• Automation was previously called OLE Automation
  and ActiveX Automation.

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Home Automation

• Home automation is a field within building
  Automation specializing in the specific
  automation requirements of private homes and in
  the application of automation techniques for the
  comfort and security of its residents.
• As a very basic definition, we tend to refer to
  home automation as anything that gives you remote
  or automatic control of things around the home.

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Home Automation

• Audio
• HVAC
• Intercoms
• Lighting
• Security
• Video

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Home Automation Companies

• Home Autom.ation Inc
• AMX Corporation
• Crestron Electronics
• Lutrox
• Etc.

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Levels of Automation

• There are five levels of Automation in a
  production plant
• Device level, the lowest level it includes the
  actuators, sensors, and other lower devices.
• Machine level, the hardware from device level is
  assembled into individual machines.
• Cell or system level, a group of machines or
  workstations connected and supported by a
  material handling system, computer, and other
  equipments needed for a manufacturing process.

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Levels of Automation

• There are five levels of Automation in a
  production plant
• 4. Plant level, it receives instructions from
  the corporate information system and translate
  them into operation plan for production.
• 5. Enterprise level, the highest level it is
  concerned with all functions necessary to manage
  the company marketing and sales, accounting,
  design, research, aggregate planning, and master
  production scheduling.

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Factory Automation

• Example of an Automated Warehouse Management and
  Control System

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Testing Automation

• Software
• LabView
• Visual Basic
• Hardware
• Instrumentation
• PICO
• Digital Multimeter
• Sensors

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Education

• Final Product

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Conclusion

• Without Automation the Companies can not succeed
  in the global economy.
• Society, governments, education, and economy need
  automation to compete in global economy.

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Questions