SupplyChain Magazine February 2019 | Page 165

EUROPE will be able to increase efficiency in those areas by up to 50 %. The adoption of RPA will also bring scalability and improved data quality due to the error reductions inherent to automation . “ We are now an organization that takes advantage of data and business intelligence to make better decisions , and having error-free data means better decisions , and having only one version of the truth ,” says Abi-Saab , adding that “ Simplifai has proven to have deep understanding of processes combined with RPA , among other skills .”
As well as tools for gathering and redistributing knowledge and raw data , OSM is dedicating itself to the adoption of machine learning , AI , IoT and edge computing to record the most relevant information from its fleet and parse it for insights into operational solutions . “ We believe that IoT is going to be the key to preventive maintenance ,” Abi-Saab says . “ But we need to approach it very smartly . You can find sensors for everything , but not everything that can be measured should be measured and not everything that should be measured can be measured . So we ’ re currently working to identify what are those areas that , if we measure , would give us the efficiency gains that we are looking for .”
Uniting information from every individual system OSM has in operation
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