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The Automation Pyramid is a reference model for classifying technologies and systems in control technologies within different levels of an industrial enterprise.

Model

Example for Automation Pyramid with 3 levels(image text in German)

Example for Automation Pyramid which is aligned with the PERA

The Automation Pyramid represents different layers in the enterprise hierarchy. There are many variations of the Automation Pyramid (see https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/6298/1/2017%20-%20Die%20Automatisierungspyramide%20-%20Ein%20Literatur%c3%bcberblick-2.pdf).

The pyramid form represents the aggregation and reduction of data coming from the production process as it traverses to the upper hierarchy levels of the enterprise. - At levels close to the production process there is many data, which is increasingly aggregated, until the enterprise top receives only a summary of the information.

History and Origin

The Automation Pyramid has been used as a model since the 1980 in the German-speaking countries. (see https://www.google.de/books/edition/%C3%96ZE_%C3%96sterreichische_Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_E/Rr0pAQAAMAAJ?hl=de&gbpv=0&bsq=Automatisierungspyramide)

The origin is not clear.

The model has been treated as 'common knowledge'..