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Introduction to automation
With the rapid development of science and technology in the 20th century, many new branches of science and technology emerged, such as cybernetics and automation technology. Computer and information theory; Laser technology and optical fiber; Molecular biology and genetic engineering; Nuclear science and atomic energy engineering; Lubricating materials and technology; Space technology and so on. They converge into a huge force, which greatly changes the labor and lifestyle of human beings and promotes profound changes in all aspects of society. It not only impacts workers and farmers in the front line of production, but also impacts enterprises, institutions, government agencies and even housewives. These changes have come so quickly that sociologists who are most sensitive to social phenomena are surprised. From a scientific point of view, when we know all kinds of specific special laws of human society in detail, we can use machines with these two functions to complete [1], which is automation technology. So in a sense, automation is synonymous with modernization. It can be asserted that human society is now in a new period of change after the primitive human era and the era of precision machinery, and the end of this change is the exciting era of automation.