This training course aims to train and guide key personnel of companies to apply effective automation solutions to address the challenges in manpower constraints, rising competition, and low productivity. The course teaches the participants the methods for identifying the bottleneck processes and more importantly the skills for determining the suitable automation solutions. Cases relevant to company’s interests will be used to enhance the understanding of the methods. After the training, the participants are expected to be able to identify areas for implementing suitable automation solution for achieving their company’s business objective. 

Learning Objectives: 

Automation Planning 

• Automation goal setting 
• Process scoping 
• Hot spot identification 

Automation Assessment Method 

• Principle of decision making 
• Process decomposition 
• Impact factors ranking 
• Practice: Hands-on for process scoping for actual or past cases 

Identification of automation alternatives 

• Concepts of design for automation 
• Approaches for cost effective automation 
• Practice: Hands-on for critical survey of automation solutions 

Determination of automation solution 

• Practical considerations for automation implementation 
• Application of multi-criterial decision-making method
• Practice: Hands-on for automation solution identification