Mechanisation, mass production and automation: effects on efficiency and viability

What this note covers

1. Place technologies on a control continuum
2. Calculate the production effect
3. Build the investment case
4. Evaluate quality and technical control
5. Account for workforce and social effects
6. Judge environmental performance across the system
7. Worked application: calculate capacity, availability and good output
8. Applied adoption decision: automate the task, not the slogan

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