office automation　(oa)163

An office automation (British:) It is what it promotes efficiency of by it uses a computer technology, and office automation) computerizes the office work work that I performed by manual labor on paper conventionally, and automating work of some fixed forms. It is abbreviated to OA

The idea called the office automation was placed as the extension of the computer which was gradually heightened after a computer appearance in 1970's, and it was computerized the workplace which worked of the white-collar entirely in the future, and it was said that becoming paperless advanced. A letter, a telephone, the communication such as the telex were made online in this, and the money was believed with the thing which was exchanged on a network after it was made electronic money.

I used the electronics (the information appliance of the wide sense) such as a facsimile or the copier for a wide sense, and it exchanged information more quickly than an implication, the mail that there was conventionally to promote efficiency of communication with the paper and a reproduction, and speedup / the macroscale of duties was expected.

I automated duties by the introduction of the office computer by the real office automation in 1980's and I input data, and it was begun by that I could leave the part of the transacting business to a computer and advanced from the terminal by replacing duties data from a conventional account book with a database by the macroscale of the storage medium. In addition, a word processor and a printer played an active part in the aspects such as the documents making and got possible to make a large quantity of documents in a short time hereby.

In addition, I advance by the automation of the office environment computerizes various work now, and automating it, but the consumption of the paper increases from the beginning in 1980's when rather office automation was proposed flourishingly because a delay of the computerization of the administration section and resolution of displaying it and simpleness and easiness characteristics are yet inferior to paper. In this flow, the display unit which it is easy to treat at light weight such as the electronic paper is developed, but there is appearing in a still developing level as of 2006.

Currently, I am conscious and need not to be called "an office automation" very much, and there is it in the above-mentioned state predicted in the condition that said that a PC exchanges information through a thing, the Internet that a thing in the normal, LAN are connected to speaking of an office in 1980's. On this account the office automation slightly wins through up to words such as an OA floor and "the OA machinery" (synonymous with an information appliance). However, the paper reply does not happen and gets possible to still use regenerated paper not paper for exclusive use of the OA which seems to be a paper and thermal paper generally of high quality if I compare it in once, but does not still have the complete substitution of the paper medium.