MUMBAI: Companies are increasingly turning to automation to manage supply chains and production functions as lockdown and the need for social distancing in the wake of covid 19 outbreak make human intervention and supervision difficult in many cases.
According to industry experts, routine jobs which require lesser human skills have been witnessing a takeover by machines with artificial intelligence (AI), industrial robots, service robots, and robotic process automation (RPA) playing an active role.
Companies like ABB and Honeywell, both leading industrial automation service providers, have been reporting higher demand for a lot of remote monitoring services by their Indian clients since the lockdown began 25 March, as companies look to