Process innovation
The history of the control of industrial processes has been tied inextricably to the evolution of the computer, writes Peter Marsh.
In the early days of large-scale industrial production, the control of processes, for making products from chocolate to cement, was done by humans. A person would set in motion a series of manufacturing steps – for example, adding ingredients to a mixture to make an end-product such as a foodstuff or an industrial chemical.
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