PROCESS AUTOMATION WITH A FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY AND RESOURCE EFFICIENCY

Abstract

This study analyzed process automation with a focus on sustainability and resource economy, investigating how intelligent systems, sensors, and digital technologies can reorganize production methods in industrial, building, and residential environments. The discussion examined technological transformations that integrate computational control and continuous monitoring, enabling an understanding of the relations between innovation, energy efficiency, and environmental rationality. The research showed that autonomous devices and decision-making algorithms contribute to the improvement of processes by promoting interventions oriented toward consumption reduction, reorganizing production stages and adjusting operational demands according to contemporary environmental challenges. The theoretical analysis indicated that automated buildings, intelligent networks, and connected households broaden energy management perspectives based on computational data capable of interpreting environmental conditions, allowing the construction of efficient and economically oriented spaces aligned with sustainable development. The reflections demonstrated that automation has great potential to support the technological transition associated with environmental economy, considering that intelligent systems expand process precision and encourage practices related to the preservation of natural resources in industrial, urban, and domestic scales.