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Strictly speaking the word mechanisation means the replacement of human labour by machine labour. Nowadays one distinguishes between mechanisation and automation where mechanisation stands for the replacement of human labour by ‘dumb’ machine labour; a program once given to the machine will be followed permanently. The more intelligent form of mechanisation where the machine also replaces some of the human mental processes is called automation.
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Bliek, N. (1974). Mechanisation. In: Davidson, A. (eds) Handbook of Precision Engineering. Philips Technical Library. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01029-5_3
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