The Production Facility provides a method of running numerous script files, back-to-back, without ever opening the product's user interface. Many of the procedures you run may be time consuming, especially if you run those procedures daily, or even on a weekly basis. The Production Facility automates those processes by allowing you to run script files unattended. The program then terminates when the last command has been executed.

This chapter uses automaton.sps, which in turn references demo.sav. If you installed SPSS to a location other than C:\Program Files\SPSS, you'll need to edit the path to demo.sav in automaton.sps to match your SPSS install location.