How to say "automation" in Japanese

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  • オートメーションJLPT N2approx.Common
    nounThe loanword for automation as a concept or system, particularly in factories and industry. It works only as a noun, so it suits talk of automation itself rather than the action of automating something.
    生産性せいさんせいはオートメーションの徹底てっていによって向上こうじょうする。↗
    Production improves by becoming more automatic.
  • 自動化じどうかCommon
    noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe word for the act or process of making something automatic. It also serves as the verb 'automate', so it is the word you need when saying that something has been automated.

Use 自動化 for making something automatic or the state of being automated (it also works as the verb 'automate'); 「オートメーション」 is the loanword for automation as a concept, especially in industry.

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