On the Automation Track

 Context :

 

UiPath Survey Reveals over 4 in 5 Indian Organizations Will Scale Up or Achieve an Enterprise-wide RPA Deployment by 2025

 

[ Indian Express  /  15  Sept  2022 ]

 

 

Extract :

 

Fundamentally, 88% of the organizations in India agree that automation will be a critical requirement for business excellence, customer experience, and competitive success within the next 3 years.

 

“In this fast-changing dynamic world, automation has become a requirement for businesses to excel and their customer experience excellence with competitive success.

 

In the next couple of years, we expect Indian organizations to fast-track automation implementations alongside an increased focus on intelligent process automation,” said Scott Hunter, Vice President- Strategic Engagements & Transformation, Asia Pacific, and Japan, UiPath.

 

Between 2020 and 2021, automation spending has continued to accelerate as 82% of the organizations in India have increased spending.

 

Further indicating the growing prioritization for automation, 32% of the Indian organizations have increased automation spending by 20%.

 

The top business priorities for implementing automation include

 

#  improving operational efficiencies (82%),

#  delivering effective customer experiences (76%), and

#  streamlining processes (70%).

 

 

About 65% of the Indian organizations intend to use Intelligent Process Automation (IPA) in over 30% of the total deployments in the next three years

 

74% of the organizations in India said that finding automation skills and talent is their top challenge.

As a result, 50% said that the availability of skilled automation talent and strong implementation partners’ support is key when selecting automation solutions, while 84% said they look out for end-to-end enterprise-grade solutions with modern and modular architecture.

 

===============================================

 

My  Take :

 

Ø Second industrial revolution ?.................. [ 21  Sept  2015 ]

 

Extract :

 

But Western countries are not resigned to their fate of a lowered " Standard of Living "

 

 

They are gearing up to usher :  The Second Industrial Revolution  !

 

 

In the form of Robots :

 

 

Robots manufacturing cars / appliances / machinery / anything

Robots 3 D printing products from designs downloaded from Net

 

Robots managing health care in hospitals

 

Robots serving food in restaurants

 

Robots carrying out office jobs

 

Robots teaching in schools

 

Robots entertaining

 

Robots everywhere !


And these are :

 

Robots which work 24 hours/day and do not ask for a salary

 

Robots that do not " go slow "or go on a strike

 

Robots that do not demand " Quotas / Reservations "

 

Robots that do not take holidays or take " Sick Leave "

 

Robots that do not resign / demand promotion

 

Robots that neither envy other robots nor sabotage 

 

Robots that do not complain against unpleasant work

 

Robots that do not get tired and need rest

 

Robots whose production does not drop after working for 8 hours

 

Robots that do not demand " Overtime Pay " @ 200 % of normal

 

Robots that perfectly co-ordinate their tasks with other robots

 

Robots that willingly " retire " at any age , whenever required

 

Robots that do not demand Unemployment / Retirement Benefits

 

 Robots which may , some day , provide you with emotional support when you are sick / depressed  !

 

 

And this Second Industrial Revolution is NOT going to take a hundred years to reach the shores of India

 

 

With spread of DIGITAL INDIA / Internet / Mobile Apps , it may take , no more than 20 years !

 

 

Dear Ministers / Economists :

 

If you are wondering why “ Automation is an Irresistible Force “ , you may find some clue here :

 

Ø Age of Automation……………………………………………………………… [ 25 Feb 2016 ]

 

 

 

Extract :

 

Way back in 1950 , Norbert Weiner wrote in his famous book ( The Human Use of Human Beings ) :

"  Let us remember that the automatic machine , whatever we think of any feelings it may have or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor

Any labor which competes with slave labor, must accept the economic conditions of slave labor

it is perfectly clear that this will produce an unemployment situation, in comparison with which the present recession and even the depression of the thirties will seem a pleasant joke

This depression will ruin many industries - possibly even the industries which have taken advantage of the new potentialities 

However , there is nothing in the industrial tradition which forbids an industrialist to make a sure and quick profit , and to get out before the crash touches him personally  "

 

 

Related Readings :

 

Ø Robots Robots Everywhere , not a Soul to See !................. [ 10  April  2016 ]

Ø  

Ø Robotation ……………………………………………………………………………….[ 30 Mar 2017 ]

Ø  

Ø The rise of the robots   

Ø    

Ø Business @ the speed of thought      

Ø  

Ø The Human Use of Human Beings   

 

 

 

 

 

Ø John Diebold

 

            John Theurer Diebold (June 8, 1926 – December 26, 2005).

            An American businessman who was a pioneer in the field of automation, founding The Diebold    Group to advise corporations around the world as well as governments in the U.S and abroad in the potential of information technology.

1952 wrote first book, Automation, originating many concepts basic in today's technology.

[  I read this book in 1956 ]