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Introduction to Industrial Automation

Manufacturing involves using raw materials or parts to create goods or products that will be sold to customers. Creating products from raw materials can be done by using hand tools that are operated by humans or by machines such as motors, pumps, and drills, which are also operated by humans. Before machines, items/products were made by hand using tools, and lots of time and effort was spent producing a single item. The development of manufacturing resulted in hand tools being replaced by machines operated by humans, which made production faster with minimum effort. Nowadays, human involvement in terms of operating machines in manufacturing is being reduced or replaced via industrial automation.

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