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Automation in The Greenhouse Horticulture Presentation

This document discusses automation in horticulture and plant science fields. It defines mechanization and automation, provides examples of automated processes like irrigation, greenhouse production, and transport. Advantages of automation include labor savings, accuracy, increased quality and yield, while disadvantages include high initial costs, challenges if equipment breaks down, and difficulty finding manual labor to fill in. The document concludes with career opportunities in fields that utilize automation like greenhouse growing and plant science.

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Automation in The Greenhouse Horticulture Presentation

This document discusses automation in horticulture and plant science fields. It defines mechanization and automation, provides examples of automated processes like irrigation, greenhouse production, and transport. Advantages of automation include labor savings, accuracy, increased quality and yield, while disadvantages include high initial costs, challenges if equipment breaks down, and difficulty finding manual labor to fill in. The document concludes with career opportunities in fields that utilize automation like greenhouse growing and plant science.

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Introduction

What is mechanization?
What is automation?

Examples of automation
in horticulture and plant
science related fields

Career opportunities
Learning Objectives
Students will:
be able to describe different ways the horticulture and
plant science related fields industry are automated
be able to identify automation practices in horticulture
and plant science related fields
be able to describe advantages and disadvantages of
automation in horticulture and plant science related fields
Automation
What is Mechanization?
“The process of putting an apparatus, operation, or system under
the control or regulation of mechanical or electronic devices.”—
Merriam Webster
Automation
What is automation?
Dictionary: “The technique of making an apparatus, a process, or
a system operate automatically.”

International Society of Automation: “the creation and


application of technology to monitor and control the production
and delivery of products and services.”
Automation
Operations with enhanced technologies in horticulture,
including nurseries and greenhouses, can be classified into
two groups:
Mechanized and Automated
What’s the difference?
Automation
Horticulture Applications

“Smart Agriculture”
Automation
Horticulture Applications

Irrigation
Greenhouses
Landscapes
Automation
Horticulture Applications

Benching Systems
Greenhouse
Production
Automation
Horticulture Applications

Greenhouse Production
Product Transport
Automation
Horticulture Applications

Greenhouse Cleaning
Automation
What do you think are advantages to automation? Disadvantages?

Advantages Disadvantages
 Saves labor!  COST (initial investment)
 Plant hundreds more per  Challenges if breaks down
hour compared to hand labor  Fixing timeline
 Can be operated by one (or  Costs
few people)  Could be hard to get manual
 Accuracy resulting from labor to fill in
data driven decisions
based on facts.
 Increase quality and yield
 Example: laser ‘eyes’ built
in
 Select for disease
 Uniformity
Automation
Career Examples
Greenhouse Grower Olericulturist

Image Credit: Transplant Systems


Project funded by:
USDA Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary
Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge
Grant (SPECA) Award No. 2017-38414-26963

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