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Working Out the Automation Concept
3.2 Dividing the Process into Tasks and Areas
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3.2 Dividing the Process into Tasks and Areas
An automation process consists of a number of individual tasks. By identifying groups of related
tasks within a process and then breaking these groups down into smaller tasks, even the most
complex process can be defined.
The following example of an industrial blending process can be used to illustrate how to organize a
process into functional areas and individual tasks: