Современные условия хозяйствования требуют ухода from centralized data processing, which is associated with the concentration of all computing power in the computing center, to information processing in the place of its immediate appearance and use. This fact allows you to remove intermediate links when a person contacts a computer. As a result, one employee in his place can carry out a whole cycle of procedures, starting from entering information and ending with obtaining output data.
Automated workplace is an element of the control system, equipped with the means by which a person’s participation in the implementation of automation functions is ensured.
In other words, this is a problem-orientedcomplex software, hardware and linguistic means. It is installed directly from the user at the workplace and is intended to automate the processing of operations in the design and solution of necessary tasks.
- a set of software, information and hardware is available to the user;
- computing is located right in the user workplace;
- there is the possibility of continuous improvement of automated data processing in a particular field of activity;
- data processing is carried out by the user;
- the presence of a dialogue mode of user interaction with a computer both in the process of designing management tasks and solving them.
Automated workplace can be assigned to a specific class depending on such signs:
- on the scope of use (in scientific activities, design, production and technological processes and organizational management;
- by the type of computer equipment used;
- depending on the mode of operation (network, group or individual);
- on the qualification training of users (professional or unprofessional).
A more detailed classification within each group is possible.
For example, workstationorganizational management is divided into levels. This is the level of the head of the company, employees of the departments of material and technical supply, planners and accountants. Conventionally, such an organization of work is called an “automated workplace of an economist”. The conceptual difference of this concept from the previous mentioned types is the adjustment in physical, functional and ergonomic terms for a specific user or group of users.
Business Workstationpromotes the rapprochement of the employee with the capabilities of modern technology and creates favorable conditions for work without intermediaries - professional programmers. At the same time, it is possible to work both offline and in interaction with other users within the organizational structure of the enterprise.
There are three main classes of automatedworkplaces: manager, specialist and technical staff. Depending on the use of a particular class, different tools are used to create such jobs.
