Robgrade

Inspiration

Everybody hates manual, repetitive work and there are a few of us that really find joy in doing it. So I want to bring awareness inside my organization that we can indeed save time, money and make our employees happier if we get rid of some of this manual and repetitive work without losing the quality of this work.

What it does

It does not do anything right now, since it is not implemented yet. But the idea is to use a RPA robot to upgrade different applications/platforms that we are using in our manufacturing service inside my organization. We have a lot of applications and platforms which purpose is to help simple people, operators to produce different products from our portofolio. Upgrades can take months to be completed, validated and tested since one employee cannot work on multiple upgrades at once.

How I built it

It can be built using any RPA company available on the market, but I would chose Blue Prism for this project since it is one of my company's vendors

Challenges I ran into

The challanges I run into really often when trying to back-up a project like this is the people mentality. A lot of people, even really big managers with a lot of experience on board, are sometimes not so happy to change the systems or the things we are doing. A lot of people also think that a robot can replace them and even thought this can be true, it does not mean we are going to fire people, we are just going to free their time and they can focus on some other work which can be more fun to do. That's actually the purpose of the RPA robots.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I think I am proud that I keep on finding new posibilities and opportunities in my day to day job. Even thought as I mentioned above, it is really challenging to work with people and try to change their mentality, but that is the really fun part. At the end of the day, I am the proudest person in the room if I could convince one more person to adopt my new perspective (generally) and try to implement it in their work space

What I learned

I learned that even thought we pretty much know the opportunities that are out there, we often find ourselves in the position in which we do not take actions because we are used to the process and this keeps us from evolving.