DCC export automation and operators provide an automated workflow with Houdini's TOPs system, a powerful tool for automating and managing complex workflows. TOPs networks are comprised of nodes that generate "work items," which represent individual tasks or units of work. Work items can be static, meaning their properties are known ahead of time, or dynamic, meaning their properties are determined as the network runs. These networks are used to manage complex processing tasks such as rendering, simulation, and asset generation. Attributes can be used to control parameters of nodes within the network and to pass information between work items. PDG (Procedural Dependency Graph) is the overarching system that manages these workflows, allowing for parallelization, optimization, and efficient task execution. The talk also discusses various nodes within TOPs, including processors, schedulers, partitioners, mappers, and more. These nodes provide tools for generating work items, scheduling their execution, grouping them together, and establishing dependencies between them.