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automation

[aw-tuh-mey-shuhn] / ˌɔ təˈmeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
machine control
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Synopsys is the largest provider of electronic design automation software, which is used to design semiconductors.

From Barron's

Politicians ignored Silicon Valley jobs where automation language hid a workforce of immigrants, often women, frequently undocumented.

From The Wall Street Journal

As a pair of academics wrote recently in MIT Sloan Management Review, “The barrier to full automation isn’t raw capability—it’s a stack of human, legal and cultural constraints.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Joyce Pont is sceptical whether that moment will arrive in the foreseeable future – she sees the building of superyachts and other such vessels as a 'craft' which will resist automation.

From BBC

The possible beneficiaries include companies in the industrials, capital goods and tech hardware sectors, particularly in manufacturing, aerospace and automation.

From MarketWatch