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Easy and Productive Tricks to Automate Processes When Starting Your Business

Easy and Productive Tricks to Automate Processes When Starting Your Business

Share Tweet Share Share If you have a small business or if you’re thinking about starting one, you need all the help you can get. But hiring people is expensive, and for someone who doesn’t have all the capital in the world to start, managing expenses can be tricky. However, there is one way you can get the most amount of work done and not even have to pay any extra wages! Don’t worry, we’re not talking about some employment scam. We’re talking about automating certain processes in your business. With the help of some smart software and the […]

4 Benefits of Robot Process Automation in Home-based Care

4 Benefits of Robot Process Automation in Home-based Care

An Oxford University study in 2013 told everyone what we’d all been wondering: Will a robot one day take my job? The report — “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?” — offered its ranking of 702 jobs and careers based on how easily they could be automated.

Not surprisingly, the home-based care sector fared pretty well, as therapists, social workers and mental health professionals made up 40% of the top 10 safest jobs.

That does not mean that robotics and automation have no place in home-based care. The contrary. Robot process automation, or RPA, is software that […]

Automation And The Future Of Work – How Engineered Systems Are Improving The Workplace

Automation And The Future Of Work - How Engineered Systems Are Improving The Workplace

Automation Unsplash It’s abundantly clear that the future of work will be markedly different from our jobs today. AI, automation, and advanced engineered systems promise improvements in safety, simplification of routine tasks, and higher productivity levels across organizations.

While there is much to be argued about when it comes to the ethics of automation and the role it will play in our lives, it is important to understand the spaces in which automation (if applied without racial, gender, and other biases) will undoubtedly improve the workplace experience. This is especially true in areas such as safety and repetitive tasks.

While it […]

As wages in China climb, robots are making everything you buy

As wages in China climb, robots are making everything you buy

Visual Stories China’s vast manufacturing sector is undergoing upgrades, with industrial robots being introduced in a number of sectors.

Chinese industrial robot maker Youibot is on a roll. Pulling in USD 15.5 million in its latest funding round led by SoftBank Ventures in May, the Shenzhen-based startup also had a robust year in 2020, completing multiple financing rounds and winning several awards for its ingenuity.

While probably best known for its disinfection robots deployed in Chinese hospitals, airports, and other public spaces, Youibot’s strongest suit is in robots used in electronics manufacturing, an industry that’s proven exceptional in more ways […]

A World Without Work? Don’t Hold Your Breath

A World Without Work? Don’t Hold Your Breath

Will we soon be sitting on couches watching reality TV shows while robots work 24/7 doing all of the work humans used to do? The idea that robots will replace most human labor has been around for almost 100 years and has become more popular with each new advance, from sensors and microprocessors to enterprise software, data analytics, and AI. A World Without Work by Daniel Susskind The latest wave of robot hysteria was tweaked by The Singularity is Near in 2005, emboldened by Race Against the Machine in 2012, and sent over the top by The Second Machine […]

The competitive advantage of digitalized oil & gas data

The competitive advantage of digitalized oil & gas data

Here are the top four reasons why digitalization should be the highest priority – to increase competitiveness for both you and your company.

Deploying strategic digitalization projects is the process of creating real-time data streams to enable better, faster decision-making and execution. This means piloting solutions that enable operators to obtain and disseminate critical information directly at their workstation, paperless. #1 Automation of Operations

Automation of operations will continue to grow every year. Surveillance, monitoring, remote operation, automated workflows, business processes, data integration, and auto collection will minimize data entry, provide higher data quality, and lead to better decision making, […]

Back to the Future: Engineering Progress in 2021

Back to the Future: Engineering Progress in 2021

The engineering market plays a significant role in the economy since it connects science and industry. Engineering companies bring a multiplier effect from the implementation of large projects to producing regions: employment and qualifications of personnel are growing, tax revenues are growing, territories are developing. The contribution of engineering to the development of the domestic industry, the introduction of new product samples to the market is constantly growing. What Is the Point?

UNESCO notes the vital role of engineering as an engine of innovation, but at the same time, it notes that there is a shortage of qualified engineers […]

Kevin Carmichael: Don’t fear the robots, people

Kevin Carmichael: Don't fear the robots, people

Some of today’s pessimists favour taxing algorithms and robots to keep employers from abandoning most of their humans. Others reckon that technology will make most of us better and richer, like it always has. Article content

History is imperfect. Most of the original stories were written by conquerers, so they’re one-sided. Modern historians have done hero’s work trying to correct the record by digging into primary sources, but myths persist: There is only so much data a professor and a team of research assistants can process, even when ancient ledgers and old diaries have been digitized.

Revisionist history is about […]

Surviving Automation: It’s Now Coming for White-Collar Workers

Surviving Automation: It's Now Coming for White-Collar Workers

human hand and robot hand touching computer screen Concerns about the increasing automation of lower-wage and service jobs have been in the zeitgeist for several years now. But it’s increasingly clear that automation can also take over some of the tasks associated with white-collar workers, such as contract generation (lawyers) and chatbots (customer support agents).

With both cultural changes like the COVID-19 pandemic and technological developments like robotic process automation (RPA) accelerating the move toward automation, white-collar professions previously considered AI-proof are in the crosshairs. Surviving automation in the workplace will only become more difficult, as McKinsey has upped its […]

Virus era decreases human workers

Virus era decreases human workers

The United States today is producing roughly the same amount of goods and services as before the coronavirus pandemic — but with 8.2 million fewer workers, equal to the combined payrolls of every employer in Virginia, Arizona and Iowa.

Greater productivity is the rare silver lining to emerge from the crucible of covid-19. The health crisis forced executives to innovate, often by accelerating the introduction of industrial robots, advanced software and artificial intelligence that reduced their dependence upon workers who might get sick.

Even as millions of Americans remain jobless, retailers, food processors, energy producers, manufacturers and railroads all are stepping […]