Commentary: Why automation lags

Commentary: Why automation lags

Why automation lags The need for the creation of the Journal of Automatic Chemistry as Peter Stockwell has implied in his commentary for the first issue has arisen from the interdisciplinary nature of the field of automation. Thus, in contrast to other new journals which are dedicated to narrower and more speialised topics we are encompassing a variety of fields each of which knows their own de...

Why Automation

Safety is what drives our automation innovations. There is an inherent safety hazard associated with personnel handling pressurized lances during the cleaning process. Getting employees out of the line of fire, and on the other side of the safety barricade were the objectives behind the creation of automated tooling. With automation, we are able to reduce crew size, effectively eliminating expo...

Commentary: Education for automation

Commentary: Automation comes of age

The publishing of this Journal represents the beginning of the end; the end of a struggle to legitimise automation in chemistry and the beginning of what trust will be a valuable means of communication for those of us, as chemists, who become increasingly involved with automatic analysis. Automation can be defined in many ways but should not be used simply to imply mechanisation of a single fac...

Commentary: The analyst and automation

That the implementation of automation is a systems problem and must involve a multidisciplinary approach has been stressed many times in this journal. The skills required to achieve effective automation inlude electronics, statistics, computer expertise, combined with business and organis-ational acumen. Indeed, there may, in the past, have been too much input from the experts in mini and micro...