On the face of it, it's difficult to see why the idea of hyperautomation is especially relevant to industrial automation as it exists in the real world. But Neil Ballinger, general manager EMEA of replacement, reconditioned and obsolete automation parts EU Automation, believes there's an opportunity for early adopter businesses to outpace the rest. There are two worlds of automation. One is the conservative, day-to-day, pick-and-place, realm, where countless businesses still play. Here, the idea of automating a process with a robot or collecting some data from a machine to perform advanced analytics is still quite radical.

All organizations communicate their vision and roadmap of big events each year; some achieve them successfully. If you or your company is working on such large programs and would like to use automation to improve your process and create larger programs, please read on. Any large organization faces the same challenges throughout trying to make a big initiative more or less. The following are the two main challenges affecting such rollouts. These challenges are not new, but small and large enterprises have been impacted by it.