(industrial engineering) A single robotic system or other automatically operating machine that functions independently of any other machine or process.
Islands of automation
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Islands of automation was a popular term used largely during the 1980s to describe how rapidly developing automation systems were at first unable to communicate easily with each other. Industrial communication protocols, network technologies, and system integration helped to improve this situation. Just a few of the many examples of helping technologies are Modbus, Fieldbus, Ethernet, etc.
The term is now more appropriate to information technology, where Enterprise application integration looks to solve the problem of islands of automation in the IT field, where the spaghetti network failed.
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