Re: Driving time from Dublin to Belfast Aug 5, 2007, 8:33 AM BrantCouple, this is a nice trip and as you drive along you will have the mountains of the Cooley peninsula on your right and hills on your left.
Automation or automatic control, is the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers and heat treating ovens, switching on tele phone networks, steering and stabilization of ships, aircraft and other applications with minimal or reduced human intervention.
History of Automation. Over the course of history, advancements in technology have transformed repetitive human processes into cheaper tasks rapidly performed by machines. The past three centuries have exhibited three waves of automation, from the advent of machinery to artificial intelligence witnessed today. In the 19th century, the introduction of automation replaced dirty and dangerous jobs with industrial equipment.