Automation Tech - History of Automation

This company was the first to utilize a robotics system in their production line

• Ford Motor Co

• Volkswagen

• General Motors

• Toyota

Second industrial revolution was marked by which advancements in manufacturing?

• Mechanization and Steam

• Electricity and Mass Production

• Computer Technology

• The Iron Age

Samuel Slater is best known for

• Committing high-crimes and misdemeanors for corporate espionage against the British

• Producing the steam engine

• Discovering America

• Being the father of the Second Industrial Revolution

Community whose survival/economy is based on producing crops and farmland

• Economic Society

• Agrarian Society

• Hunter Gatherer Society

• Urbanization

This device - still used today - is considered to be the first automated system

• Block and Tackle

• Grain Mill

• Steam Engine

• Bow and Arrow

Combining of metals with one or more other elements

• Alloying

• Manufacturing

• Casting

• Electrification

The First Industrial Revolution was brought in by what technology?

• Steam Power

• Electricity and Mass Production

• Computers and Semiconductors

• Agrarian Riots and Starvation

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The company to first bring the assembly line in the early 1900's was?

• Hyundai

• General Motors (GM)

• Volkswagen

• Ford Motor Company

In the Digital Age (3rd Industrial Revolution) what two major inventions changed production and paved the way to Automation

• Model Control Systems

• Switches and Relays

• Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Robots

• Process Automation

The Internet of Things (IoT), access to real-time data, and the introduction of cyber-physical systems mark the big changes for this era

• 3rd Industrial Revolution

• Industry 4.0

• Manufacturing Age

• Industrial Revolution

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