AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS FOR SUPERVISING THE TECHNICAL MANAGERIAL ACT

Abstract

Nowadays, the technological assistance of the manager by totally or partially automated systems (like SCADA), the automation, at least partial of dispatching (process management), the need for real-time cooperation, extended communication in networks of an always variable complexity, form and structure, multitasking activities define and determine the managerial capacity. At present, intelligent, redundant and programmable equipment communicates the necessary measure or decision to be taken before the person has taken note of all aspects of the problem. Currently, the well-known logic blocks of the “if”…”then” type extend the manager’s capabilities beyond the natural human limits, lowering costs, optimizing processes and sometimes avoiding disasters. We all intuit the effects of launching an order to start the pumps and raise the pressure in a pipe that, from an unpredictable reason, is being sectioned by a valve… By automation we mean the use of a computer to perform a "critical time" task that a person would normally perform. In 1951 the psychologist Paul Fitts proposed the famous MABA-MABA list (Men Are Best At - Machines Are Best At). Dewhurst and Willmott (2014) observed that: “After years of promise and hope, machine learning has at last hit the vertical part of the exponential curve. Computers are replacing skilled practitioners in fields such as architecture, aviation, petroleum geology — and changing the nature of work in a broad range of other jobs and professions.