Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Jidoka (Autonomation) & Automation vs. Autonomation

Jidoka (Autonomation)

Equipment or processes that are “smart” enough to detect an undesired, abnormal state and stop so as not to produce a defective product.



  • Automation with a human touch
  • Practice of stopping a manual line or process when something goes amiss
  • Quality built-in to the process

Benefits

  • Helps to detect a problem earlier
  • Avoids the spread of bad practices
  • A level of human intelligence is transferred into automated machinery
  • No defective products produced
  • Tremendous improvement in productivity

Automation vs. Autonomation

  • Automation is converting manual work to automated machine where Autonomation also stopped the process automatically if any abnormalities occurs
  • Automation reduces labor where Autonomation also improves quality assurance
  • Automation increases technicality where Autonomation reduces technicality because skill levels to be lower in similar processes

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