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Automating factories is easier than automating farms, which are far less predictable environments: the weather constantly changes, the light alters, the ground can turn from grass to mud, and there are animals and people wandering around.
AUTOMATING Lately I've been fooling around with home automation, and I've discovered that from my iPad or iPhone I can now control my home audio, theater system, lighting and curtains.
In the 1980s we were automating the industry and many lower-technology pits were at risk of displacement as others were turned into computerised superpits - in a stagnant market for coal.
Its applications for automating and integrating the internal processes and supply chains of big firms had colonised entire industries.
Automating the automatable stuff allows lawyers to spend more time talking to the client.
The second trend is towards automating the testing of software.
As they outlined to this week's meeting of the American Chemical Society, in Washington, DC, they have been analysing the smell of corpses, with a view to automating the process of detecting them.The idea of doing this is not entirely new, but when Ms Jones and Dr Sykes looked at the previous studies they found that the corpses used were usually at least three days old.
Trolls on the hill Fortune favours the boss Better days ahead Shining a light on the auditors An unhappy business Major challenges, minor successes Nothing more than feelings From cuckolds to captains ReprintsHowever, IT departments have, in many non-tech firms, remained hidden away, automating unexciting but essential functions supply chains, payroll and so forth.
Foxconn is considering building a factory in Indonesia, but other firms are staying put and trying to lower the share of labour in overall costs by automating production instead.
Sun stroke Power play over fuel cells Plug and play at home Soft as silk, strong as steel Chips that see in colour Flap over hot chips Cassandras not needed Heavenly music AI by another name Accuracy is addictive Tongues of the web The engines of Lilliput Mach 1 at Microsoft ReprintsThe idea of automating the process of translation using computers goes back to the late 1940s.
Investment in IT and "organisational" investment complement each other: each feeds the return on the other*.Taking things apartThe danger lies in using IT purely as a way of doing more cheaply the same old things in the same old ways: processing information more cheaply in the same departments, or automating an otherwise unchanged production line.
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The primary grammatical function of "automating " is as a gerund or present participle. As a gerund, it functions as a noun, often serving as the subject or object of a sentence. As a present participle, it functions as part of a continuous verb tense, as seen in several Ludwig examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
