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Manumation

{{short description|Hardware control systems}}

{{Automation}}

{{Wiktionary|manumation}}

{{distinguish|Manumission}}

Manumation is the automation of paper based processes in public sector and business without improvement regarding its efficiency.{{cite journal |last1=Scholl |first1=Hans J. |title=Digital Government: Looking Back and Ahead on a Fascinating Domain of Research and Practice |journal=Digital Government: Research and Practice |date=19 February 2020 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=7:1–7:12 |doi=10.1145/3352682 |s2cid=211519497 |issn=2691-199X|doi-access=free }} Automation of an inefficient process does not lead to an improvement in case of manumation.{{cite journal |last1=Zandin |first1=Diane |title=Evaluation and Development of Selection Criteria to Guide Organizational Selection of a Project Management Maturity Model |journal=Regis University Student Publications (Comprehensive Collection) |date=14 February 2010 |url=https://epublications.regis.edu/theses/81/}} This term could be seen as a sarcastic description of the digital replication and mimicking of frequently ineffective and even broken paper-based processes in first phase of the societal digitalisation, from 1995 to 2015.

Manumation is also a term for automated systems, which require more manual work than the original manual process.{{cite thesis |last1=Niemann |first1=Johan |title=Development of a reconfigurable assembly system with enhanced control capabilities and virtual commissioning |date=2013 |publisher=Bloemfontein : Central University of Technology, Free State |url=http://ir.cut.ac.za/handle/11462/184|type=Thesis |hdl=11462/184 |hdl-access=free }}

Definitions

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OriginYearDefinition
Motamarri Saradhi{{cite journal |last1=Saradhi |first1=Motamarri |title=Re-Engineer: If It Wasn't Engineered! |journal=ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes |date=April 1994 |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=17 |doi=10.1145/181628.969585 |s2cid=5311983 |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/181628.969585 |language=en |issn=0163-5948}}1994"[M]anumation is the narrow interpretation of the work analysis ... as the study of the existing system in view of computerizing its operations"
William K. Holstein
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Jakov Crnkovic{{cite journal |last1=Holstein |first1=William K. |last2=Crnkovic |first2=Jakov |title=Measurement Issues in Decision Support Systems |journal=Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, First Edition |date=2005 |pages=1906–1911 |doi=10.4018/978-1-59140-553-5.ch336}}		2003Formula for manumation is "Old Processes plus New Technology equals Expensive Old Processes"
Hans J. Scholl{{cite book |last1=Scholl |first1=Hans Jochen |title=Electronic Government |chapter=Organizational Transformation Through E-Government: Myth or Reality? |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |date=2005 |volume=3591 |pages=1–11 |doi=10.1007/11545156_1 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11545156_1 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-540-28466-6 |language=en}}2005"[C]omputer-aiding existing processes and procedures, while processes and structures basically [remain] unchanged"

Examples

Computerized transaction processing is the automation of previously manual transactions.{{cite journal |last1=Barzilai-Nahon |first1=Karine |last2=Scholl |first2=Hans Jochen |title=Siblings of a Different Kind: E-Government and E-Commerce |journal=Electronic Government |date=2010 |volume=6228 |pages=25–37 |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-14799-9_3}}

See also

References

Category:Impact of automation

Category:Systems analysis