computerizing

Automating with machines

Computerizing is converting a process, system, or operation to computer control or management.

An office computerizes its records by moving from paper files to digital databases.

A factory computerizes by replacing manual controls with automated systems.

The term often implies modernization: The library is computerizing its catalog.

automation

automation

Self-operating system design

robotics · scheduling · digitization · payroll · bookkeeping · billing · databases · spreadsheets · migration

transition

digitization

Analog-to-electronic transformation

implementation · adoption · training · retraining · displacement · obsolescence · restructuring · transformation · upgrade · changeover

hardware

processor

Component that executes instructions

motherboard · circuitry · transistor · semiconductor · silicon · peripheral · server · terminal · keyboard · monitor

efficiency

optimization

Maximizing efficiency or performance

accuracy · precision · automation · standardization · scalability · throughput · performance · paperless · systematization · simplification

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technological method

computerizinghandwriting

Manual letter formation

typewriting · pen-and-paper · paper-based · low-tech · mechanizing

direction of technological change

computerizingunplugging

Removing from power source

technological direction

computerizinggoing backwards

Moving in reverse direction

simplifying

Family

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