13. AUTOMATION.

The section of "Yarn Production and Properties" focuses on automation in the field of the textile industry. It has been stated that full or partial automation of yarn manufacture, especially for cotton-spinning, was one of the developing concepts during the 1960s. It has also been reported that automation means the linking together of different processes that have for long been regarded as separate, with a manual transfer of material from the output of one stage to the input of the following stage.