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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

6. Process Control and Automation: The Bagrit Vision

Author : Emeritus Professor Simon Lavington

Published in: Moving Targets

Publisher: Springer London

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Abstract

Automation, broadly defined as the computer-assisted control of industrial processes, covers a wide spectrum of applications. Here we need to narrow the spectrum somewhat, so as to focus on the word automation as it might have been understood by people such as Leon Bagrit during the period 1948–1968. Of course, Bagrit’s view evolved over this period, just as the capabilities of digital computers evolved over the same period. This chapter charts the evolution.

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Metadata
Title
Process Control and Automation: The Bagrit Vision
Author
Emeritus Professor Simon Lavington
Copyright Year
2011
Publisher
Springer London
Book
Moving Targets

Print ISBN: 978-1-84882-932-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-84882-933-6

Copyright Year: 2011

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-933-6_6

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