How Automation Procedures Are Structured

It is recommended that the structure of automation procedures contain three main parts, as follows:

  1. Perform initialization processing
  2. Determine whether automation is allowed
  3. Perform automation processing.

Figure 1 illustrates the structure of automation procedures for system operations and Figure 2 for processor operations.

Figure 1. Automation Procedures for System Operations
Automation Procedures for System Operations
Figure 2. Automation Procedures for Processor Operations
Automation Procedures for Processor Operations

The following sections provide more details about each part of an automation procedure.