Bots & Business

Permettant d’automatiser un certain nombre de tâches basiques, la RPA s’entoure de nombreux composants qui viennent augmenter ses capacités : process mining, algorithmes de machine learning, data analytics, technologies OCR… Le but ultime est de parvenir à une généralisation de la démarche, ce que le cabinet Gartner appelle l’hyperautomatisation.

Network provider Verizon has acquired Austrian-based incubed IT, the creator of a software platform that provides autonomous navigation tools to administer, manage and optimize mixed fleets of robots in industrial settings. This acquisition will expand Verizon’s robotic capabilities to power robotic automation for enterprise customers, for a large part based on 5G.

Seegrid, vendor of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for material handling, today premiered a new autonomous lift truck, Palion Lift AMR, further expanding the capabilities of the company’s fleet of mobile robotics solutions.

Last week The Banking Scene organized a webinar on Automation in Banking. In an hour long discussion the benefits and pitfalls of automation in finance were discussed. This report summarizes the proceedings: “Be very transparent with your compliance team, your security team, cybersecurity team, and specifically in relation to the vendors that you’re going to engage with for these different components to build out your RPA and Intelligent Automation tool stack”.

The worldwide low-code development technologies market is projected to total $11.3 billion in 2021, an increase of 23.2% from 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. The surge in remote development during the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to boost low- code adoption, despite ongoing cost optimisation efforts.

The global smart robots market size is expected to reach $25 billion by 2026, rising at a market growth of 27.2% CAGR during the forecast period, according to Researchandmarkets in their report “Global Smart Robots Market By Component, By Mobility, By Operating Environment, By End User, By Region, Industry Analysis and Forecast, 2020 – 2026”.

The two-day Machine Tending Expo, February 23-24, focuses on deploying cobots to tend machines such as CNC, press brakes, injection molding machines or 3D printers. In live demos, keynotes and interactive booth sessions with exhibiting partners, Universal Robots shows its solutions on how to implement cobots, tackling the labor shortage, while improving crucial machine uptime.

Les nouvelles technologies d’automatisation et de robotisation sont un des leviers de la transformation digitale des fonctions financières. Initialement réservée aux grands groupes, propulsée par un effet de hype, supposée complexe, onéreuse et aux impacts humains dévastateurs, cette petite révolution numérique s’adapte aux entreprises de taille moindre, générant de la productivité, de la flexibilité, et créant de nouvelles opportunités pour le plus grand nombre.

Customer contact must deal with a fairly complex ecosystem of fragmented data across different sources. To manage this mission critical ecosystem, a robot can play an essential role and eliminate challenges like fragmented data and delivering personalization. And above all, to eliminate the frustration a lot of customers experience (CX) in their dealings with companies: ‘30% of a total call duration is silent time.’

An independently managed company of Siemens AG, Siemens Mobility has been a leading provider of transport solutions for over 160 years while developing its portfolio constantly through innovation. We wanted to know more precisely how Siemens Mobility is also digitizing its internal processes, so we asked Benjamin Bock specifically about the business benefits of Robot Process Automation (RPA) at Siemens Mobility.