This resembles autonomation in the Toyota Production System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomation Basically, y

This resembles autonomation in the Toyota Production System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomation Basically, you define a process, do it manually, then slowly automate bits of it.