Labor Automation 2.0 – Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
It used to be that when we talked about labor automation, it meant automation of traditional “blue collar” jobs in manufacturing facilities and factories. Today’s labor automation is a whole new breed – what we call Labor Automation 2.0 – and it’s taking place in “white collar” offices, businesses and organizations around the world.
Labor Automation 2.0 means that any work process that is definable, repeatable, and rules-based can be mapped out and assigned a software robot or “Bot” to manage the manage the execution of that process, just as a human would. It is also called Robotic Process Automation (RPA).
RPA is separate and distinct form an organization’s IT structure. It is not another business application. Rather it is a substitute for a human worker to operate business applications.
