Automation Office

Smith, M. J. (1995), Behavioral Cybernetics, Qirality of Working Life and Work Organization in Computer Automated Offices, in Work With Display Units 94, A. Grieco, G. Molteni, E. Oc-chipinti, and B. PiccoU, Eds., Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 197-202. 

As a result, most chemical corporations have, or are undergoing, restructuring or re-engineering . This latter term refers to a process which merges job functions, automates office procedures and makes more effective use of information. Chemical companies are also focusing on core... 

For example, long hours at the video display terminal (VDT) can cause pains in the neck and back, eyestrain, and a general feeling of tension and irritability. Illness has increased among the office worker population. This may be attributed, in part, to the increased presence of environmental toxins within the office and to stress-producing factors associated with the automated office. Resulting illnesses may include respiratory problems, skin diseases, and stress-related conditions. 

Andreadis EA, Angelopoulos ET, Agaliotis GD, Tsakanikas AP, Mousoulis GP (2011) Why use automated office blood pressure measurements in clinical practice High Blood Press Cardiovasc Prev 18 89-91... 

Utilisation of the new technology has resulted in developments such as integrated digital exchanges with associated business information systems and, potentially, the automated office. 

The important difference between these two models is that they are models of different things it is the objects of the model, an operating system processing classified information on the one hand and a financial services department on the other, that are different - not the models per se. Indeed, Bell and LaPadula s only objective was to develop a secure operating system they were not concerned with what happened outside of the computer system (e.g. preventing a user from posting a copy of a top secret document to a spy). Moreover, the Bell-LaPadula model does not faithfully reflect all activities traditionally practised in a secure non-automated office environment. 

Pulgram, WUham, and Richard Stonis. Besting the Automated Office. New York Whitney Library of Design, 1984. 

Immunosensors promise to become principal players ia chemical, diagnostic, and environmental analyses by the latter 1990s. Given the practical limits of immunosensors (low ppb or ng/mL to mid-pptr or pg/mL) and their portabiUty, the primary appHcation is expected to be as rapid screening devices ia noncentralized clinical laboratories, ia iatensive care faciUties, and as bedside monitors, ia physicians offices, and ia environmental and iadustrial settings (49—52). Industrial appHcations for immunosensors will also include use as the basis for automated on-line or flow-injection analysis systems to analyze and control pharmaceutical, food, and chemical processing lines (53). Immunosensors are not expected to replace laboratory-based immunoassays, but to open up new appHcations for immunoassay-based technology. 

APS (Automated Patent Searching) U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) MicroPatent covers U.S. granted patents 1975—present first page and exemplary claim updated monthly within two weeks of final issue date each month cumulated to one disk/three years... 

Filtration and water-knockout systems are used to clean up the gas before it enters a compressor. Cooling systems are sometimes required to maintain compressor discharge temperatures below 54°C to avoid damage to the pipeline s protective coatings. Automated compressor stations are typically staffed by maintenance and repair personnel eight hours per day, five days per week. Other stations are staffed on a 24-hour basis because personnel must start, stop, and regulate compressors in response to orders from the dispatch office. 

Automated clinical analyzers became affordable, not only to small hospital laboratories, but to doctors group practices and to individual doctor s offices as weU. 

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Web Patent Databases. The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) [72] offers free World Wide Web access, http // www.uspto.gov/main/patents.htm, to a bibliographic patent database that uses the most current patent classification system, this may not match the classification data that appears on the printed patent, and to a full-text patent database that uses the classification data that appear on the printed patent, this may not match the current classification data. The databases start with January 1, 1976, patents. The full text of a patent includes all bibliographical data (e.g., inventor s name, the patent s title, the assignee s name, etc.) and the abstract, full description of the invention, and the claims. All the words in the text of the patent are searchable. If the patent number is known, the patent, regardless of year, can be ordered from the PTO. Automated searching of 1971 to date patents is available at some of the Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries. Prior to 1971 searching can be done at the PTO facilities or at the Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries. Commercial patent search services are also available. 

This expanded view of task automation includes new capabilities in the the traditional area of instrument automation and in the somewhat newer related field of robotics. In addition it includes a number of functions which are not new to the office and business environment but have only recently become readily available in the laboratory. These are tools such as data base management, scientific text processing, and electronic mail and document transfer. One way to improve technical productivity Is by giving the scientist more time to do science. This can be accomplished through improved efficiency In the office, communication, and information retrieval functions which must be performed as well as by allowing science to be done In new and more efficient ways through the use of computers. 

The provision of these office automation tools to the scientist must be done in a way which integrates the office activities with the lab activities. Global planning must be done for the implementation of a comprehensive system which includes laboratory Instruments, robotics, office automation, graphics, molecular, reaction and other modeling tools, information retrieval and all the other computer resources required by the modern scientist. 

Automation of today s laboratory should no longer be viewed simply as instrument automation. The modern scientist is an office worker as well as a technical worker and must be given the computer tools to allow the integration of the total laboratory task. The yields to the companies which recognize this will be significant Improvements in both the efficiency and effectiveness of their research function. 

Office Automation, A User-Driven Method", D. Tapscott, Plenum Press, New York, 1982. 

Packaging of fragile parts electronics, office automation devices, electric motors. .. 

Packaging of electrical household and business appliances, TV, radio, office automation, printers, computers, electric tools. .. 

Office automation equipment such as photocopiers, prisms, mirrors, polygon mirrors, optical films... 

Electricity, electronics, office automation o frames of integrated circuits... 

EPA. 1997a. Automated Form R for Windows User s guide (RY97). Washington, DC U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. 

Office of Information Resources Management. Survey of Laboratory Automated Data Management Practices. Research Triangle Park, NC U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1989. 

Polymer alloys composed of a poly(carbonate) (PC) resin and ABS or HIPS with talc as an inorganic filler have been used for housings or parts for office automation instruments and electrical or electronics instruments. 

Pitt, W. W. Jolley, R. L. Katz, S. Automated Analysis of Individual Refractory Organics in Polluted Water SERL. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC, 1974 EPA 660/2-74-076. 

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