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.
The term is often used in regard to the stage of development, as in the passage of a device or component from the design stage into the hardware stage as the finished object. 2. In data automation, the physical equipment or devices forming a computer and peripheral components. See also software.