How quality control automation kicked off an Industry 4.0 journey
3 min read - SMART Modular Technologies manufactures memory products in a nearly 300,000 square-foot factory in Malaysia. Like a lot of companies that have started down the path toward AI-driven automation, also commonly known as Industry 4.0, we weren’t following a lofty ambition…
Helping empower refugees with blockchain and process automation
4 min read - Today, technology plays a key role in all aspects of life. It connects like-minded communities to come together to help them solve common problems. But when certain problems are at such a large scale where they affect the whole world,…
Why investing in your data is now more important than ever
5 min read - Data is the raw material for digital transformation The ability to act on data-based insights in real-time has never been more critical than it is now. Over the past six months, The IBM Institute for Business Value report COVID-19 and…
Solving the productivity crisis: Digital process automation for deep deployments
3 min read - The way we do work today isn’t working for many employees and employers. Employers have fewer qualified people to perform complex tasks, while employees get bogged down with low-value tasks. What slowly emerges is a productivity crisis. How can companies solve it?…
Intelligent workflows 101: Revolutionizing the way your business works
3 min read - Don’t just optimize one task, reimagine an entire workflow We often read about the power of emerging technologies and their collective potential to remake entire industries. But in practice, we tend to focus on one part of a business, for example, the back office.…
How to remove the top 3 barriers to AI adoption in business automation
4 min read - Many businesses are looking to automation to increase productivity, save costs and improve customer and employee experiences. For example, imagine a large insurance company that processes millions of claims a year. Around 60 percent of its claims are automatically processed,…
Process modeling is the first step to Lean Six Sigma success
2 min read - Lean Six Sigma is a combination of two process improvement methods: Lean and Six Sigma. It’s designed to reduce organizational costs by removing waste, or “muda,” from a process through continual business processes improvement. By removing waste and reducing process…