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ISBN: 9780133128741

Author: Serope Kalpakjian, Steven Schmid

Publisher: Prentice Hall

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The term automation refers to the technique through which the creation of an apparatus takes place using an automatic process or a system. Let us try to understand this with an example.

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Chapter 38, Problem 5RQ

What are the differences between the terms computer-aided and computer-integrated?

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