Prague, Czech Republic

Machine and Process Control

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
University website: www.cvut.cz
Years of study: 4
Machine
A machine uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an intended action. Machines can be driven by animals and people, by natural forces such as wind and water, and by chemical, thermal, or electrical power, and include a system of mechanisms that shape the actuator input to achieve a specific application of output forces and movement. They can also include computers and sensors that monitor performance and plan movement, often called mechanical systems.
Process
A process is a set of activities that interact to achieve a result.
Machine
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.
John Kenneth Galbraith (2007) The new industrial state. p. 9.
Machine
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.
Walter Lippmann in: ictor Earl Amend, Leo Thomas Hendrick eds. (1964) Ten contemporary thinkers. p. 315.
Machine
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
Jean Arp; As cited in: Carol Dingle (2000) Memorable Quotations: French Writers of the Past. p. 8.
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