Engineering:Radical automation

Radical automation is a long term decline in human labour hours needed due to automation.

The Beginnings of Radical Automation

Radical Automation was first observed on a large scale in the USA after 1899, mainly in the area of agriculture, what resulted in mechanization of farms. By the late 1960s the concept of Radical Automation had been moved on to the factories and enabled the development of more efficient machinery, including CNC machine tools and industrial robotics.

Radical Automation Today

An example of implementing the Radical Automation philosophy in the area of automation of internal logistics processes is a new generation of autonomous AGV (automated guided vehicle), which in the field of navigation, is adapted to the needs of the plant, and the cognitive analysis gives the systems the ability to make independent real-time decisions and adapt production processes to the existing situation. All that without any operator participation.

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