Automation strategies should be shaped according to sectors

摘要

Manufacturing companies often think of themselves in isolation. They believe that their processes are unique, except perhaps for those of their competitors. Since they avoid sharing ideas with competitors, they turn inward and reinvent automation strategies or just accept what comes through their doors. And while manufacturers are viewing themselves as unique, organizations that offer products and services to manufacturers tend to paint with too broad of a brush. They generalize. Schools, for example, claim to have "manufacturing programs" designed to serve the universal needs of manufacturing. But these programs tend to be too general or poorly focused, resulting in customer dissatisfaction. The same may be said for software companies.