Business Improved by Robots

Robots reduce the time and cost of car­ry­ing out com­mon busi­ness pro­ce­dures. Robot­ic soft­ware can replace man­u­al trig­gers, which reduces the need for employ­ees. Robot­ic automa­tion is use­ful for indus­tri­al and cler­i­cal process­es. The two dis­tinct robot­ics mar­kets include indus­tri­al and ser­vice. Indus­tri­al robots are typ­i­cal­ly robot­ic arms on assem­bly lines, while ser­vice robots are more humanoid and work in the aca­d­e­m­ic or research community.

It is not con­test­ed that by imple­ment­ing robots, through­put speeds increase. This direct­ly impacts pro­duc­tion pos­i­tive­ly. Robots can work at a con­stant speed with­out the need for breaks, sleep, or vaca­tions, unlike a human work­er. Fur­ther, they pro­duce less mate­r­i­al waste because of their pre­cise and accu­rate move­ments. This demon­strates their val­ue as a busi­ness tool to increase productivity.

Robots also alle­vi­ate some dan­ger­ous con­di­tions for employ­ees. Work­ers can still super­vise the robots, but they no longer are asked to per­form repet­i­tive or haz­ardous tasks because the robots can eas­i­ly do so. This leads to few­er health­care and insur­ance con­cerns for employers.

For years, busi­ness­es have been out­sourc­ing process­es like pay­roll, order pro­cess­ing, and cus­tomer ser­vice. How­ev­er, a new type of out­sourc­ing is in town: busi­ness process as a ser­vice. With BPaaS, the ser­vice provider man­ages the busi­ness process as well as owns and man­ages the sys­tems and appli­ca­tions that enable that process. Auto­mat­ed work­flow and col­lab­o­ra­tion sys­tems are at the heart of BPaaS. BPaaS solu­tions occur when the provider owns the tech­nol­o­gy plat­forms under­ly­ing the busi­ness process as well as a smart robot. 

While some com­pa­nies may be resis­tant to automat­ing their busi­ness process­es, they must real­ize that cer­tain employ­ees and depart­ments are becom­ing obso­lete as process­es change. This is inher­ent­ly the point of robot­ic automa­tion: mov­ing for­ward to increase prof­itabil­i­ty and efficiency.

It seems that all major busi­ness­es evolve into robot­ics. In Decem­ber 2013, Google entered the robot­ics busi­ness, mak­ing sev­en acqui­si­tions but stay­ing silent about their plans for their new robot­ics division.

Future appli­ca­tions of robot­ic tech­nol­o­gy will include unmanned air vehi­cles. The agri­cul­ture indus­try will sig­nif­i­cant­ly ben­e­fit from these robots, since they can help farm­ers mon­i­tor crops and dis­trib­ute pes­ti­cides more accu­rate­ly. This would increase effi­cien­cy while decreas­ing envi­ron­men­tal impact.

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