Robot Readiness
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Are you ready for robotic coworkers? Is your organization ready for a partly automated workforce? If these questions are coming up where you work, you don’t want to miss the July PM Network® article “Bots Onboard.”
Implementing robots on staff requires readjustments. It is a trial-and-error affair, so most organizations are starting small. One example is Millennium Hotels and Resorts in Singapore. The organization piloted a hospitality robot at one of its hotels to deliver guest-requested amenities to their rooms. The testing phase showed how the robotic coworker can make staff jobs easier.
NASA invited four robots to join its shared services center team to automate certain financial processing activities. The project team faced a challenge right away with the bots: how are they to be credentialed to work with sensitive material? The decision: Robots get an agency user ID and government email account and gain system access just like any new user.
The robots had to be trained to do their tasks and then user testing ensured that the appropriate information was captured to track lessons learned.
The article quotes shared services center enterprise service division chief Pamela J. Wolfe as saying her unit is mining ideas from NASA employees on other uses for automation. “If we think it’s right…we look at the requirement, what priority it has and what benefit it yields."
Appropriately enough, Ms. Wolfe concludes “The sky is the limit.”
What has been your introductory experiences with robotics and automation in the workplace?
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I will have to read that article.
Sci-Fi becoming reality too soon
Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Thanks for sharing Dan, Cheers
Tamer Zeyad Sadiq
Assistant Cost Manager| Turner & Townsend
Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Drew Craig
Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard
Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Shane Drumm
Digital Product Person| Journey One
Perth, Australia
RAJESH K L
Project Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, India
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Phani Keerthi
Phani Keerthi Y| Indian School Of Business - Digital Transformation Manager
India
Interesting one...!! Thanks.
RAJESH K L
Project Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, India
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Alok Priyadarshi
Project Manager| Tata Consulting Engineers Limited
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
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