THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF AUTOMATION DEVELOPMENT IN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
This article discusses the trends in the development of automation in industrial production. Such interrelated issues as the dialectical development of technical means of labor, the relationship with the basic economic laws and economics, general functional changes of a person under the influence of progressive technical means of labor and automated control systems being created are also considered. The main elements based on new developments and technologies that are aimed at maximum simplification and optimization of the production process are identified.