According to a January 2019 research paper published by Rockwell Automation expressed that India will turn into a $ 1 Trillion manufacturing economy by 2025, from $350 billion in 2018. The research further states that India is a thriving market for industrial automation, and with more and more partnerships happening, customized solutions will be created for a “connected enterprise”.

Both AI and Machine Learning have been used in a variety of processes to personalize product recommendations, find anomalies in production, identify fraudulent transactions, and more. The latest generation of AI advances have devised techniques that address classification, estimation, and clustering problems promises significantly more value.

An analysis conducted by McKinsey and Company over several hundred AI use cases found that the most advanced deep learning techniques deploying artificial neural networks could account for as much as $3.5 trillion to $5.8 trillion in annual value or 40 percent of the value created by all analytics techniques.

Let us find out why and how industrial automation will change our lives in the coming years.

What is Industrial Automation?

Automation encompasses using specialized techniques and mechanism aided human operators for performing a task. In other words, automation replaces human involvement with the use of logical programming commands and powerful machinery.

Industrial Automation may be defined as the use of set technologies and automatic control devices for automatic operation and control of industrial processes without human intervention and achieving superior performance than manual effort can achieve.

Industrial automation solutions include data analytics for recalling automobiles, spotting manufacturing defects in assembly line products and optimum utilization of machine-learning for operational productivity.

How AI helps in Industrial Automation

AI, machine learning and industrial robotics technologies have merged into single systems for manufacturing production to give us a number of benefits. Increased uptime, reduced programming time and higher productivity are some of the key benefits for industrial automation.

Increased Productivity

Higher production with faster and better performance is one of the best things about industrial automation. Industrial automation accelerates mass production by drastically reducing assembly time per product with greater production quality. Therefore, for a given labor input it produces a large amount of output.

This also means reduced time-to-market, putting newly developed products into the customer’s hands within hours or days.

Optimum Cost of Operation

Another major advantage of industrial automation is the integration of several industry processes with automated machinery to minimize manual cycles and effort and bring down the need for human labor. This translates to save capital spent on employees.

Improved Product Quality

Automation reduces human involvement, with lesser possibility of human errors. Uniformity and product quality with greater conformity can be maintained with automation by adaptively controlling and monitoring the industrial processes in all stages right from the inception of a product to an end product.

Goodbye to manual routine checks say hello automated checks

Industrial automation reduces the need for manual checking of various process parameters. automation technologies keep track of industrial processes and automatically adjusts process variables to set or desired values using closed-loop control techniques.

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Higher Safety and Security

We have seen in the past, how manual errors in controlling or managing industrial processes, machinery or production units, have led to massive power wastage, over usage, and even accidents, because of gross negligence. Not anymore with industrial automation.

with automated machines can be controlled and managed in a more organized manner, with auto switch-off mode, power-saver mode or automatic notifications for hazardous situations. This not only saves lives but also saves power.

Industrial Automation is here to stay.

Order-driven production will reduce manufacturing waste and enable dynamic supply chains to work faster and better. Manufacturers will leverage real-time digital platforms connecting consumer and industrial data to configure the assembly of products. Both consumers and manufacturers will reap the benefits of a quicker configuration of production lines to create newer and better products.

Industrial Automation will largely impact workforce skills. Demand for advanced technological skills such as programming will on the rise. This also means a surge in social, emotional, and higher cognitive skills. The demand for physical and manual skills will surely decline but will remain the single largest category of workforce skills in 2030 in many countries, according to McKinsey and Company.