Automation - one of the areas of scientific and technological progress, the use of self-regulatory technical means of economic-mathematical methods and systems management, frees man from participation in production, conversion, transfer and use of energy, material or information that significantly reduce the degree of participation or labor performed operations. Requires additional use of sensors (sensors), input devices, control devices (controllers), actuators, output devices, using electronic techniques and methods of computation, sometimes copied the nerve and mental functions of man. Along with the term automatically, use the concept of automated, emphasizing relatively large degree of human participation in the process.