Abstract

Automation is “the application of machines to tasks once performed by human beings, or increasingly, to tasks that would otherwise be impossible”, Encyclopaedia Britannica [1]. The term automation itself was coined in the 1940s at the Ford Motor Company. The idea of automating processes and systems started many years earlier than this as part of the agricultural and industrial revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. There is little disputing that England was a major contributor to the Industrial Revolution and indeed was the birth place of some prominent inventors, for example. in the area of textiles:

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