RPA for Manufacturing Industry | Managing Parts Proliferation with Ease!

An emerging technology, Robotic Process Automation (RPA ) is making rapid progress within efficiency-driven industries. According to a Gartner report, the global robotic process automation (RPA) software is projected to continue to experience double-digit growth in 2023, growing 17.5% year over year.

Manufacturing industries are continuously moving towards automating 70%-80% of their processes. A direct solution to handle rule-based repetitive tasks and minimize the need for human intervention, the RPA bots offer comprehensive benefits:

• Decrease the labor time spent on routine tasks
• Decrease the time-to-market (TTM)
• Increase data quality and minimize process errors
• Minimize human interference
• Maintain an audit trail

Complexities in a Manufacturing Industry

Manufacturing industries have to deal with a wide range of products, coming from in-house production and outsourced from different vendors. In this regard, parts proliferation remains a recurring problem that increases inventory and requires design and upkeep actions to create and produce new products. This directly affects the productivity and efficiency of the businesses, while drastically increasing the cost factor for the business.

Microsoft Power Automate- RPA Proliferation Solution

Part Proliferation is an extensive and complex problem in the manufacturing industry, involving a multitude of variables, working at the same time. Robots have already been working in the manufacturing plants for a long period of time. The aim has always been constant; to improve productivity and allow workers to focus on other, high-level tasks.

Microsoft’s Power Automate works on the business process automation strategy. With its foundation in robot process automation, it allows manufacturing managers to deploy software ‘robots’ to easily configure trigger responses, manipulate data, and communicate with other digital systems.

The bot-generated responses can be as simple as generating an auto-reply message to an email that deploys thousands of bots, each pre-programmed to automate ERP tasks.

How do the RPA Functionalities of Power Automate Streamline Manufacturing Parts Proliferation?

Power Automate strengthens the supply chain process and bridges the gap with routine activities. Its RPA functionalities enable the business to tailor billing, and production objectives, minimizing mistakes and guiding employees over each stage of evolution.

Here are some of the ways in which Robotic Process Automation is streamlining the manufacturing processes:

Automating the Bill of Materials

The Bill of Materials lists the items that are to be manufactured. Manually processing the raw materials, sub-assemblies, sub-components, and intermediate assemblies increases the chance of human errors. RPA bots can handle the Bill of Materials in real-time, which ensures that the products will be manufactured without any defects and shipped on time.

Handling Compliance Problems

Manufacturers who sell their products on a global level have to be mindful of the varying compliance agreements among the products and the countries. While it is not possible for someone to memorize every compliance procedure, the RPA software can easily simplify it. It ensures accurate data processing with compliance requirements while maintaining track of all the updated activities.

Potential Client-centric Communication

The manufacturing industry cannot survive on its own. It needs clients to sell its products to, and so the two-way process continues. This requires the sales team to be proficient in their communication skills as they pitch their products to existing and potential clients. RPA bots can automate it by including name recognition, automatic email replies, chatbots, and language detection. Therefore, a manufacturer can experience more rapid communication with RPA tools.

Data Migration

Finding, organizing, and utilizing data during the time of data migration can be a complex and time-consuming task. Integration of RPA software can streamline the migration process from paper to a completely new digital system. RPA bots digitize the paper files and integrate them into the new system properly. Such kind of automation saves time and reduces human error as it avoids duplication or missing files.

Direct Impact of RPA on the Manufacturing Industry

Investing in robotic process automation software will directly translate into typical costs. As per a study from Deloitte , the savings range from 4% to 12% of procurement spend, which for some companies can translate into tens of millions of dollars annually.

• Achieve cost visibility across the manufacturing plant
• Rationalize part numbers and suppliers under management
• Drive volume consolidation at negotiated prices to minimize new product introduction costs
• Create actionable road maps through negotiations and engineering changes
• Save engineering time by identifying similar designs
• Streamlined resources for value-added activities
• Reduce parts complexity management
• Decrease material spending on designs

Gartner has also estimated that by 2024, organizations will lower operational costs by?30%?by combining hyper-automation technologies with redesigned operational processes.

Nevertheless, migrating to fully functional automation software may come with some challenges.

• Skill gap in labor market
• Shortage of investment capital
• Inability to automate end-to-end processes
• Lack of structured RPA teams
• Technical and operational issues
• Change management

Dynamics Solution and Technology | Your Automation Experts

Part proliferation is undoubtedly a complex problem. However, with the onboarding of the experts of Dynamics Solution and Technology , we assure you no longer have to worry about it anymore.

Being experts in delivering digital business transformation, our past experience in deploying automation solutions in the manufacturing industry will prove to be a vital asset as we transform your work processes.

With the inclusion of Microsoft Power Automate , we deliver automated workflows to streamline your processes from pre-manufacturing to post-manufacturing so that you excel on all fronts while delivering solutions to your client.

Contact us today to eliminate the redundancies of parts proliferation and witness exponential growth.