Automation is different in industrial, manufacturing and engineering environments because digital workflows are tightly coupled to physical production, plant uptime, quality control, and supplier coordination.
The manufacturing examples show that even administrative processes like invoice correction or SOP creation have outsized operational impact when they reduce bottlenecks, improve standardisation, and keep engineering, finance, and shop-floor teams aligned around throughput, safety, and cost.
Komatsu Australia, the local arm of the global construction and mining equipment manufacturer, used Microsoft Power Automate and AI Builder to build a Robotic Process Automation solution for invoice fixing. Going from licence purchase to a production RPA solution in just four weeks, the automation saved 300 hours per year on invoicing for a single supplier and is being expanded to cover all suppliers.