Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0
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Re: Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0
#2Taking into account the technological evolution of the last decades and the proliferation of information systems in society, today we see the vast majority of services provided by companies and institutions as digital services. Industry 4.0 is the fourth industrial revolution where technologies and automation are asserting themselves as major changes.
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#3For the uninitiated, the term "Robotic Process Automation" isn't about physical/articulating robots performing tasks that interact with their environment. It's a term used to describe something much more akin to back-office software automation in most cases.
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#4The reality is that RPA, AI, ML, etc ... are still years away when it comes to the industrial sectors (e.g. manufacturing, energy, oil & gas, etc).
Sure there are many PoCs, smaller projects, but in my experience, working on data centric projects with a few fortune 500 industrial companies, none of these technologies have been successfully implemented in production.
Perhaps for some back office & business-level applications, but certainly not for any production related use-cases (e.g. predictive maintenance).
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#5For the uninitiated, the term "Robotic Process Automation" isn't about physical/articulating robots performing tasks that interact with their environment. It's a term used to describe something much more akin to back-office software automation in most cases.
I like to think of it as glorified VBA macros, as most software of this class runs on top of Windows automating desktop apps.
Re: Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0
#6The reality is that RPA, AI, ML, etc ... are still years away when it comes to the industrial sectors (e.g. manufacturing, energy, oil & gas, etc). Sure there are many PoCs, smaller projects, but in my experience, working on data centric projects with a few fortune 500 industrial companies, none of these technologies have been successfully implemented in production. Perhaps for some back office & business-level appli…
My take is that RPA by itself is useful as most big companies have mind blowingly manual processes in their back offices (or even worse they don't have mapped their processes).
The combination of RPA with AI/ML, usually called "Intelligent Process Automation" is merely dropping some OCR or NLP engine here and there to help in points of the workflow when there is no other possiblity other than some person reading a document and trying to come up with the next step. Calling this "AI" is a stretch.
Re: Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0
#7The reality is that RPA, AI, ML, etc ... are still years away when it comes to the industrial sectors (e.g. manufacturing, energy, oil & gas, etc). Sure there are many PoCs, smaller projects, but in my experience, working on data centric projects with a few fortune 500 industrial companies, none of these technologies have been successfully implemented in production. Perhaps for some back office & business-level appli…
My take is that RPA by itself is useful as most big companies have mind blowingly manual processes in their back offices (or even worse they don't have mapped their processes). The combination of RPA with AI/ML, usually called "Intelligent Process Automation" is merely dropping some OCR or NLP engine here and there to help in points of the workflow when there is no other possiblity other than some person reading a do…
Oh and don't get me started with the McKinsey quotes the likes of "workforce doing clerical work will be liberated to do higher value tasks".
They are simply going to be fired --if you squint a little while reading the slides you see that is precisely the business case.
That's going to be technology for the rest of the office workforce in the next few years.
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#8For the uninitiated, the term "Robotic Process Automation" isn't about physical/articulating robots performing tasks that interact with their environment. It's a term used to describe something much more akin to back-office software automation in most cases.
In my opinion a complete misuse of the term "robotic". Similarly how the term "AI" was (and is) abused by tech companies marketing departments.
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#9For the uninitiated, the term "Robotic Process Automation" isn't about physical/articulating robots performing tasks that interact with their environment. It's a term used to describe something much more akin to back-office software automation in most cases.
In my opinion a complete misuse of the term "robotic". Similarly how the term "AI" was (and is) abused by tech companies marketing departments.
I really like IBMs marketing of Watson as cognitive computing / cognitive enhancement / cognitive assistance.
Re: Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0
#10I think there is no place for RPA in Industry 4.0 or any kind of high tech architectures (ML/cloud/insert buzzword here). If you are using RPA, it means that your IT infra does not even have (usable) APIs to begin with and you have to resort to mouse-clicking and other hacky approaches offered by RPA. First, get rid of software that holds your data hostage and cannot be controlled via APIs before you start thinking about “AI”.
P.S. Congratulations on paper acceptance!