8.Autonomation or Jidoka:

Jidoka (働化) is an automated shutdown of a machine in the event of detection of a defect. It is a word coined by Sakichi Toyoda in 1896 when he invented the first weaving machine that stops automatically when the yarn breaks; it means "automation with human touch" and has been translated by autonomy (contraction of automation and autonomous) into English; it eliminates the human interference from the machine because if it stops itself, it not required to watch continuously [46].

It has two important concepts in the original TPS:

