In the dynamic landscape of pipeline operations, automation presents transformative opportunities for enhancing safety, efficiency, and optimization. This workshop will provide a platform for the audience to discuss automation from three perspectives: design, execution and auditing. In the design phase, we will ask how automation opportunities and use cases are being identified, explore ideas for documenting and visualizing no-code or low-code automation to ensure clarity and future maintainability, and try to understand barriers to automation. In the execution phase, we will discuss the importance of empowering controllers with full command over automated processes, maintaining visibility of automated actions, and the role of assisted automation where manual inputs or steps might be required during automation. For the auditing phase, we will explore the level of detail required after the fact for effective auditability that not only enables visualizing historical runs with conditional branching and looping, but also facilitates collecting performance metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of the automation.