Automation for Increased Productivity
In recent decades, productivity has been viewed as a metric with a direct impact on company profit and growth. Long work hours are no longer seen as critical. What matters now is working well, working better. Indeed, automation is a valuable resource for eliminating waste, making processes more efficient, and, as a result, more productive.
Introducing automated systems in industrial processes can provide greater precision and technical safety, ensuring the feasibility of highly complex operations, improving processes, and ultimately achieving higher quality products. Digital technology has been the true driver of productivity, making companies more competitive in an environment where consumers are increasingly demanding.
The Benefits of Automation
To establish automation in your company, it is necessary to combine qualified human resources, technology, and a culture of productivity. This way, you can not only revolutionize processes but also require less labor to achieve the same (or even greater!) results.
Here are some quick examples of how companies benefit from process automation:
- Increased productivity: Continuous, faster, and more efficient production.
- Improved quality: Greater precision and consistency in processes lead to a reduction in defective products.
- Cost reduction: Automation allows for the optimization of resource use, such as energy, raw materials, and labor.
- Workplace safety: By shifting repetitive and dangerous work to automated machines, the work environment becomes safer for employees, who can be allocated to other tasks.
- Flexibility and adaptability: Automation allows for quick adaptation to changes in demand and the implementation of new processes or products.
Portugal 2030: Promoting Automation
One of the missions of Portugal 2030 is to strengthen the productive sector. As such, the adoption of automated technologies by companies is financially supported through significant community framework calls, with emphasis on three particular calls:
- Productive Innovation: Strengthening productive activity through investment in innovative activities.
- Research & Technological Development: Development of new products and services.
- Internationalization: Increasing exports.
Eligible investments for these supports include:
- Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Implementation of RPA software to automate repetitive and rule-based tasks, allowing processes to be executed quickly and accurately.
- Chatbots and virtual assistants: Development and implementation of chatbots and virtual assistants to automate customer service.
- Industrial automation systems: For example, computer numerical control, industrial robotics, and process automation systems.
- Internet of Things (IoT): Investment in IoT devices and platforms to collect real-time data, monitor assets, optimize operations, and improve energy efficiency.
- Business Process Automation (BPA): Use of BPA tools and platforms to map, optimize, and automate complex business processes, providing a holistic and integrated view of operations.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML): Implementation of AI and ML algorithms for data analysis, automated decision-making, trend prediction, and experience personalization.
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems: Adoption of ERP systems to integrate different departments and processes, automating tasks related to finance, human resources, supply chain, and more.
- Marketing Automation Tools: Implementation of marketing automation platforms to manage campaigns, track leads, personalize messages, and analyze results.
We Automate Your Application!
At HM Consultores, we don’t have machinery or a factory floor to automate, but we have a team of investment and strategy specialists ready to assist you. Automation isn’t cheap, but the financial support from Portugal 2030 is the incentive you need to invest. Join the race for Portugal 2030 with us. Let’s ensure the success of your application!
