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A manufacturing system has been set up to transfer raw materials into final products by performing a series of manufacturing and assistive activities in a system. Section 1.1.3 showed that a conventional manufacturing system relies heavily on human resources in both materials flow and information flow. With the continuous growth of scale and the complexity of systems, human designers and operators approach their limits to make decisions or operate machines in cost‐effective ways. To sustain vital manufacturing systems, CATs are expected to fully or partially substitute for a human being in a material or information flow. Table 1.4 gives a brief comparison of human designers and computers in terms of their strengths and weaknesses.