Putting it All Together

Abstract

To a large degree, all of the foregoing pages have addressed at least these three objectives:

• (1) Offering general information about work-station principles, current state of the art, and available equipment and systems

• (2) Providing mechanisms, particularly the worksheets, to provoke you into thinking seriously about your needs vis-a-vis work station/office automation and assisting you in assimilating the information

• (3) Providing the basis—again, the worksheets—for developing a final specification or, perhaps more accurately, a set of specifications of the ideal system, to help you select or assemble the system that comes closest to meeting those specifications

We have now reached the goal; it is time to translate all that we have disclosed, examined, discussed, analyzed, and dissected, and create our final plan for decisive action.