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Bureau of Automatics

The Bureau of Automatics is part of the Ministry of Industry.

❊ EFF 01 Jan 01
Registry CMI-01 Reg 01 of 05 ΰΌΆ Est 1989
Headquarters Oslola Automatics Standards Precinct
Scale 19 offices
17,700 staff
Bureau of Automatics
Bureau of the Ministry of Industry
Employees 17,700
Established 1989
Headquarters Automatics Standards Precinct, Oslola

The Bureau of Automatics regulates robots in the Commonwealth, mostly in industry and the municipal services. It advises the ministry on where automatics should be used, and sets the standards for the machines and for the command computers that drive them. It is part of the Ministry of Industry.

The bureau was established in 1989, as automatics were becoming common in Commonwealth industry. Their design goes back to the first industrial robots built in Poland earlier in the decade, which spread through the Soviet Union and are still the basis of most Commonwealth machines. Nearly every robot in the country is built by National Machines, and so the bureau’s testing board has a lot of influence over the company’s designs. The company is headquartered in Kala, and its laboratories in Barbados do most of the design work that the bureau approves.

Departments 5 departments, 19 offices, 17,700 staff

Department of Automatic Standards

2,040

Specifications for automatic systems and robot designs, and the protocols by which computers instruct robots.

  • Specifications Office

  • Safety Office

  • Protocols Office

  • Computer Standards Office

Department of Asset Commands

2,580

Registration and supervision of Automatic Asset Command systems in every industry.

  • Register of Commands

  • Installation Office

  • Performance Returns Office

  • Command Liaison Office

Department of Automation Planning

1,160

Placing of automatic systems across the commons economy, from shortages reported by municipalities and bureaus.

  • Priorities Office

  • Schedules Office

  • Office of Municipal Requests

  • Surveys Office

Department of Industrial Automatics

9,440

Automatic systems in factories, warehouses and production plant.

  • Factories Office

    6 stations
  • Warehouses Office

    5 stations
  • Output Returns Office

Department of Radio & Transmission

2,480

Radio frequencies for robot control; signal stations; interference between automatic systems.

  • Frequencies Office

  • Signal Stations Office

    5 stations
  • Interference Office

  • Office of Emergency Channels

Interwork Detachments What is a detachment?
Permanent Automatics Industrial Detachment (PAID)
Broad-mandate policy group that coordinates the automation of key industrial sectors
National Machines Deployment Detachment
Joint sequencing of new automatic unit production against the bureau's deployment schedule
Constituents 7 bodies
Automatic Standards Council
Standards for robots and command computers.
Automatic Asset Command Registry
Registration of command computers.
Robot Testing Board
Testing and type approval of new robots.
Automatics Frequency Commission
Robot radio frequencies, which are registered by the Bureau of Post and Telecommunications.
Industrial Automatics Research Centre
Trials of new machines; attached to the CSRE.
Automatic Systems Training Institute
Robot fitters and command operators.
Commonwealth Automatics Manufacturers Congress
Robot manufacturers, of which National Machines is by far the largest.