What is the main difference between the terms
instrumentation and Automation?

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What is the main difference between the terms instrumentation and Automation?..

Answer / ram bhajan singh

Instrumentation is related with the study of equipments
(hardware or software)used for monitoring &
control.Automation is the process to perform any control
operation.

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What is the main difference between the terms instrumentation and Automation?..

Answer / aadi

In a more broader technical sense, Instrumentation deals
with sensing a process, suitably monitoring the process and
controlling it.
But Automation also partly deals with Aritficial
Intelligence, wherein the transductionand process
controlling is done interactively by in-built features of
the system, unlike mere Instrumentation,where an external
circuitry or a mechanism needs to be deployed.

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What is the main difference between the terms instrumentation and Automation?..

Answer / s inamdar

Whenever the measurement is carried out with the help of
instruments it is called Instrumentation and when with HMI
DCS or SCADA it is Automation

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What is the main difference between the terms instrumentation and Automation?..

Answer / g sivakumar,sembcorp

Instrumentation is nothing but study, to measure and
control the process variables like flow,level,pressure and
temperature.
control the process variable through any software program
(plc,dcs etc)without manual operation is called as a
Automation.

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What is the main difference between the terms instrumentation and Automation?..

Answer / matrix controls c.subramaniam

Instrumentation means Take example of Washing at home
Instrumentation is Getting a manual Washing m/c, You have
to load cloth and wait for water to fill then after alarm
you shift to driwer etc etc, Now your washing is
intrumental not Toally by human, But if go for fully
automatic m/c Then you automated your washing operation I
think its very clear and simple way to understand

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