Manufacturing is a labor-intensive industry. This opens up space for those involved to be the victims of manual errors, poor visibility in operations resulting in poorer management and ultimately a decrease in productivity. However, these anchors holding back the manufacturing industry are soon to become a matter of the past. Manufacturing industries must automate their workflows to mitigate the challenges mentioned above and sustain and thrive in the market.

Although, automation alone won’t solve all their problems. This is where Robotic Process Automation., a.k.a RPA comes in.

• Automation only allows for backend tasks to be automated, leaving organizations in a bind when it comes to automation that needs interactions on the user interface. RPA, unlike automation, has the ability to mimic human interactions and carry out automated tasks on the user interface, helping businesses solve the automation gap.
• In the case of traditional automation, parallel execution/scalability requires physical machines. RPA, on the other hand, allows for automation tasks to run on virtual machines, aiding scalability.

Implement RPA before it’s too late

Today automation runs the world. It would be dismissive of manufacturing organizations to turn a blind eye to RPA. Let us look at some of the business advantages of implementing RPA in the manufacturing industry.

Aid Analytics

Data analytics solutions, AI/ML and such require large amounts of data to be collected, stored, and processed. Manually collecting the data, and working with ‘n’ number of excel sheets and reports would be a nightmare.

• RPA can help. RPA bots can be programmed to collect the necessary data from predefined sources, store them in the designated data formats, and process them according to the respective algorithms.

Reports are another aspect of the manufacturing industry that deals with tons of data.

• In this scenario, RPA bots can be used to collect data, update business assets, generate reports, update them and also send them to the stakeholders periodically - if required. This way, employees need not run hither and tither at the end of financial years to update the management of the workings of the organization.

Improved Efficiency and Productivity

Aside from the industry being manual labor-intensive industry, there are many other processes that would benefit from RPA. Processes such as payroll management, invoice processing, sales orders, inventory management etc. can be automated using RPA bots.

• Implementing RPA bots in the above processes eliminates manual errors. RPA in the manufacturing industry helps improve the quality of productivity. This in turn helps them improve the quality of customer experience they promise to their client.
• With RPA bots in the picture, manufacturing organizations can reduce wastage in terms of resources, time and cost and improve efficiency.

Ease of Implementation

With traditional automation, the process of automating tasks in itself is hectic and prone to errors. Automation engineers are expected to have deep knowledge of programming languages and skills to automate functionalities. They must also keep in mind the language requirements or restrictions posed by the automation tool they use.

• Automating using RPA is fairly easy. An automation engineer can start on RPA with bare minimum knowledge of the syntax and scripting of the programming languages. Rather than focusing on the language, engineers can now focus on the functionality that requires automating.
• While utilizing RPA bots, one does not have to reprogram or work within the code of the system, as RPA can be implemented without must alteration to the system. While traditional automation, on the other hand, calls for systems to be split into pieces and worked on from the inside to execute automation.

Improved Employee Experience

Many say that an organization’s first and foremost set of clients is its employees. Keep employees happy, and they’ll take care of the customers – is how the saying goes.

• Implementing RPA in the manufacturing industry inadvertently makes room for employees to take up tasks that require a specified skill set instead of doing repeated tasks. This would also allow the organization to invest time and resources in enhancing the efficiency of the existing workflows.
• With RPA taking up mundane tasks and improving employee experience, the organization will also experience a reduction in attrition.

Partner With Us, Today!

Implementing RPA in manufacturing businesses is the right thing to do. With the right partner, RPA implementation goes easy. At Nalashaa, we have RPA experts who have engineered RPA bots in multiple industries, manufacturing being on the prominent ones.

Connect with our RPA experts at info@nalashaa.com and reap all the advantages RPA has to offer.