Automation Quotations

In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

Well, you can say there is a self driving car. I'm seeing the automation of vehicles. Really, computer-assisted driving. I think that is really interesting to us because we are taking all of the sensors technologies and putting them in cars and making people safer.

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization.

My advice is for Y2K managers to leverage the relationships they've built. They should look for opportunities to drive a business process within the company such as a sales force automation or supply chain management project.

Of all the factors leading to the favorable results, our decision to dramatically boost automation in our broker-dealer operations mid-2005 had the greatest impact on profitability.

One of the things we learned from the survey is automation professionals do not have a well-defined professional identity in the manufacturing world. There is not a well-defined book of knowledge for automation professionals. The CAP program is a way of defining what an automation professional does and to give them recognition for those skills.

One-third of the new homes sold this year will be at 3,000 square feet. At 4,000 square feet, automation almost becomes a necessity, not a luxury.

Right now, just 9 percent of engineers in Southeast Michigan are women. Automation Alley supports the STEPS camp as a part of our commitment to ensuring that Southeast Michigan has a well-prepared, diverse technology workforce well into the future.

Last year's efforts brought 175 more positions. The major deterrent is not so much the movement of plants overseas as the automation built into new plants.

Governance allows organizations to...achieve unprecedented automation.

ISA is lucky to have valuable expertise in our membership and to be able to utilize that to benefit the rest of the profession. We were able to develop a comprehensive program that every automation professional will find valuable. We are looking forward to delivering that program in Houston.

Real-time collaboration is the hot button of the future. It's being built into sales force automation tools, (customer relationship management and) accounting.

Our research confirms that Oracle Automatic Storage Management delivers high performance, more reliable automation and simplified operations, ... This capability delivers previously unattainable levels of storage management efficiency through highly automated, application-centric rules and policies.

Our automation tools will be utilized, so if we're doing mapping, for example, it will create precise maps of the roadways -- if we're doing asset management, where trying to find road signs in imagery, we have software to do that ? if we're utilizing imagery to find 3D models, we have patented tools that can do that with imagery.

From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.

We are delighted to have been selected by SEIS to provide our products for their new palletizing cells. SEIS Group's automation integration experience and our state-of-the-art products will provide manufacturers in the western U.S. regions with a highly flexible and innovation solution to their palletizing needs.

The alliance will more effectively deliver a coordinated message about the value automation professionals provide. This is not a first step in merging the groups. That would be disruptive.

We've got quite a large segment of our customer base who wants the option of a streamlined airport experience, and know that's what airport automation makes possible.

We're actually going to be releasing our marketing automation module earlier than expected.

We have hundreds of design opportunities in place at the moment. Home automation products will be on the market this year.

We live in a time when automation is ushering in a second industrial revolution

This spring, the survey will go out to about 1500 people who work in various manufacturing industries as automation professionals.

We are gratified by Korea South East Power's ongoing confidence in Emerson technologies and people. We're pleased to be able to continue our affiliation with this award-winning plant by providing a comprehensive digital automation solution that will serve as a model for future plants in the region.

Those are all things that are causing the IT systems themselves that are under management to be a lot more complex. And what we've seen is automation is difficult.

We are looking at a few areas like sales automation and specific applications in electronic governance.

We want to learn more about new uses for the PC this year, such as home entertainment, home automation and new gaming opportunities.

We started using the product a couple of years ago ourselves because we didn't have anything like it. This will be our build management and automation capability going forward.

We think we can revolutionize health care management in the same way, by providing automation and electronic access to data in an easy-to-understand way.

We are pleased with our results for the quarter and the year. We are confident our investments in the business and our ongoing efforts to drive leverage, automation and standardization across EDS will result in continued improvements in free cash flow and operating margins in 2006 and beyond.

CSC has built a strong reputation in the Chicago-area market, distributing some of the same brands of office automation equipment that we have in many of our locations.

Completely automating your plant is a substantial investment. But over time, the efficiencies produced from automation pay off. The MCPX trade show allows our members to see and touch the latest products and technologies both European and domestic in order to make decisions about the future of their plants.

This year's budget marks the meeting of the goal of the Building Department to include further automation of our permit and inspections systems to allow online access to the community,

When the gala began in 2001, Automation Alley was primarily an Oakland County initiative. Today, the Alley's membership includes nearly 600 organizations spanning all of Southeast Michigan.

An integrated open source systems management platform is ideal for organizations with custom applications that are seeking an alternative to proprietary solutions. These organizations will benefit from then flexibility of an open source solution to enable advanced automation and monitoring of their data centers and the applications that drive their businesses.

We see growing revenue from vertical and horizontal applications developed by Salesforce.com and partners, as well as continuing momentum for the core sales force automation offering, ... We believe the deployment of these applications will result in more subscribers to Salesforce.com.

To me, it seems impossible to get a big-picture view of what is happening across the enterprise, and so this acquisition is about addressing that problem. When users get a comprehensive view of all network events across the network, they can better streamline security- and compliance-monitoring as well as cut costs through automation and build more predictable compliance programs.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

We are taking a series of actions to combat these very difficult market conditions in automation controls. We are completing the realignment of our automation business previously announced in July. Early indications from the realignment are positive as we focus our marketing, sales and product development efforts on areas offering potentially higher growth.

Companies are realizing that their supply chain can be a competitive advantage. Automation is one strategy that can help a company improve its service quality and provide faster order fulfillment times.

Automation Alley shares the RARE Foundation's passion for the youth of America, their role models and mentors. This is a great way to recognize the Everyday Heroes in our State who are truly making a difference for others.

Automation is becoming extremely important, especially with laws being mandated by the government.

Automation speeds the grain handling process, so there's never a bottleneck at the bin site. The combine never has to stop for the drying system.

The Mitsubishi press incorporates all the automation features we could want. They are uniformly productive features.

Our excellent third quarter results were driven by continued outstanding performance at Rockwell Collins and impressive gains in operating margins at Rockwell Automation compared to a year ago,

EMC has acquired Smarts (an event automation and network systems management software vendor), but we don't see them as a competitor...although it is one of the companies we watch very closely in terms of what their long-term ambitions could be.

This is a critical starting point for the Tivoli software stack, integrating new products that will help lower the cost of ownership. I.T. managers see automation as a way to lower costs while providing technology innovation.

Increasing the data security of today's open control systems requires a blend of the right technologies and the expertise to implement them in a way that reduces risk. With the availability of these new security offerings, Rockwell Automation can help manufacturers develop appropriate policies and procedures and implement the security technologies that are right for their situation.

Small businesses are searching for a flexible, functional solution that will quickly and painlessly help them manage daily accounting tasks and also support a company's growth and evolution, from startup to mid-market. With its ease-of-use, depth of features and integrated components, Small Business PRO fully meets these expectations so companies can capitalize on the power of automation to increase efficiency and remain focused on advancing their business to the next level.

Tape automation is really going to be the main thing, in that you're going to see big libraries, the robotics in them to handle tapes, so we get the human element out as much as possible.

The automation and what we're doing now will make future testing go that much more efficiently.

The new line will allow us to build all our production units in one continuous line. All the new automation has worked perfectly. Some smaller things didn't work, but we've smoothed all that out.

The larger sheet size and extensive automation on the Mitsubishi press give us greater capacity and efficiency.

In terms of trading flows, we're looking for that same level of automation and minimalist environment in terms of manual intervention,

In terms of driving automation through their product set, IBM is one of the top two vendors.

Things change, so you need people pushing buttons. When the director says 'drop cut seven and insert cut six,' automation can't do that. Sports is a seat-of-the-pants operation. For instance, we don't have a graphic for someone breaking a leg or falling on the ice or sky jump. If that happens, we need a custom graphic. You have to be able to change on the fly.

These subject matter experts are managers in industry that work with and supervise automation professionals. They work in process and manufacturing automation industries.

It's well-recognized that there is a shortage of pharmacists, and the whole system is being taxed. But wherever there is a labor shortage, there is an automation solution.

It's convenient for busy automation professionals, because they can study on their own terms instead of having to travel to attend several classes.

Another reason for fewer jobs is the increased productivity by companies. More production is gotten out of few people because of automation and improved manufacturing processes.

The bottom line is that automation lowers the risk of human error and adds some intelligence to the enterprise system.

The bottom line is that the mid- to high-end market is still very vibrant and very active for tape and tape automation vendors. This is definitely going to turn heads in that market space.

The industry preference pendulum between centralized control and teller station functionality has swung back and forth for decades - now banks can approach branch automation systems without compromise when using a distributed client solution. INvolve Distributed Client brings a new level of investment protection and solutions evolution capability to branch and multi-channel solutions. Banks no longer have to choose between system flexibility and low administration and control costs - they can have both.

The D-Series solution gives customers the flexibility to pursue peripheral markets once thought unreachable with current channel counts. By utilizing D-Series? in combination with other elements of the H-Class Application Suite, customers gain a dramatic competitive advantage through increased performance and improved capability to streamline their operations, increase productivity, optimize revenue streams and reduce operational and infrastructure costs. D-Series? is clearly the mid- and large-scale automation solution for the business-focused enterprise.

The macro-trends foreshadow major disruptions in the software industry. For example, enterprise solutions platform highlights a shift away from ERP suites as the center of gravity in applications. Intelligent process automation speaks to the rising importance of operational decisions as the target for improvements in business efficiency. And the pull of compliance brings renewed attention to information governance across the enterprise. IDC software analysts are teaming up across research areas to explore the implications of these disruptions to established practices and market players,

The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification, distributed print.

In terms of production, newspaper publishers are continuing to focus principally on automation as the key to reducing production costs and general overheads.

For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins dictate that companies deploy LTC (lowest total cost of ownership) options, which are typically voice-automated, Web self-service, or offshore. For higher-priced products or consultative services such as furniture or retail financial services, the right balance between automation and live agent becomes more complex.

T here's an acute shortage of pharmacists. Some people say as many as 12,000 open positions remain unfilled today. W henever there's been a labor shortage in the history of this country, automation has stepped up to fill the gap.

There was no automation of key processes, and no integration between systems, leading to a lack of visibility.

There's clearly increasing sophistication among investment products our clients are using. We are able to manage many of those types of products internally on existing accounting platforms...but if you really want to provide a deeper level of information, then you simply look for a higher level of automation of capturing what I describe as those held-away assets.

The Mori machines offer high performance and the repeatability vital to our philosophy. We knew that we wanted to move toward pallet pools once our processes were completely stable. Mori Seiki's focus on supporting automation made it an easy choice.

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

The launch of the CPX utilizing Brooks Marathon Express automation enables STS to provide a high reliability production platform for manufacturing requirements in markets such as MEMS, advanced packaging and data storage, ... We can now not only provide the most advanced process technology to our customers, but also offer a world-class automation platform for the high wafer processing throughput and low cost of ownership that is required now and into the future.

The membership of the alliance will be open to all organizations interested in promoting the development, implementation, and commercialization of automation technologies.

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.