Very good points. It is definitely a worthy goal to automate. That level has not yet been reach in my organization, but hopefully, it will get to that state. When I worked in automating wafer fab production, we called the supreme automation "lights out" automation. And as we cannot every really do that completely (without outsourcing), We can certainly make it easier to have more time to see the big picture and not be a permanent fire-fighter. 🙂

BTW, I'm trying to figure out how to automate the input of articles like this into my brain. If anyone has done that yet, please the scripts or whatever was used to accomplish that.

Thanks for the article! Nice job.