The Best Manufacturing Process Automation Solutions to Consider

The Solutions Review editors have compiled the following list to spotlight some process automation solution providers manufacturing companies should consider working with.

The process automation sector encompasses multiple software options, including robotic process automation (RPA), business process management (BPM), digital process automation (DPA), and business process automation (BPA). With these tools, a manufacturing company can streamline its day-to-day operations, streamline processes, stay agile, and empower its workforce to focus their skills on the tasks that matter most. However, with many different manufacturing process automation tools and systems available, finding the right one for your needs can be challenging.

With that in mind, our editors have profiled some process automation solution providers that manufacturing companies should consider working with. We selected these vendors based on their service offerings, experience working with manufacturing organizations, overall reputation, and customer satisfaction. The list is organized alphabetically.

The Best Manufacturing Process Automation Solutions

akaBot

Description: akaBot is a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution provider that helps global organizations improve how they prioritize process management metrics, identify tools for their needs, create customized strategies, design bots, develop an RPA center of excellence, and provide ongoing training and support services as needed. Additional functionalities include process mining, time tracking, pre-built templates for creating bots, workflow recording, and more. Manufacturing companies can use akaBot’s hyperautomation tools to streamline their purchase order processing, automatically reconcile inbound invoices, optimize quotation management processes, and more.

Automation Anywhere

Description: Automation 360 is a cloud-native and web-based platform combining RPA, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics. The provider also offers its Bot Store, the first and largest marketplace with more than 1,200 pre-built, intelligent automation solutions. With Automation Anywhere’s platform, manufacturers can eliminate waste, increase business agility, expedite the time-to-market, ensure compliance, enhance customer experiences, and improve profitability. Capabilities include demand planning, sales forecasting, order management, product development, accounts payable, inventory management, material requirement planning, and customer service.

EdgeVerve Systems

Description: AssistEdge, an EdgeVerve Systems solution, is a Robotic Process Automation platform capable of helping large enterprises improve their customer service offerings, enhance business processes, and maximize operational productivity. Manufacturing companies that work with AssistEdge will receive access to inventory management, customer service, production planning, logistics management, bill-of-materials (BPM), demand planning, order processing, procurement management, SKU updates, shipment scheduling, automated route management, customer communications, sales pipeline reporting, customer data management, and other industry-specific capabilities.

FlowForma

Description: FlowForma is no-code workflow automation solution provider that helps global business experts with a collection of specialized tools and capabilities. For example, FlowForma’s Process Automation and Workflow Management Software for Manufacturing can help manufacturers drive efficiencies, ensure compliance, accelerate innovations, empower decision-makers, follow LEAN principles, and improve cross-departmental collaboration efforts. Capabilities include product lifecycle management, customer onboarding, quality control, supply chain management, compliance automation, incident management, collaboration tools for external partners, and contract management.

Nintex

Description: Nintex offers IPA solutions that strip business inefficiencies and replace them with seamless, sophisticated processes. With Nintex Workflow Cloud—an easy-to-use, no-code platform—organizations can connect with all their content repositories, systems of record, and people from a single system. For example, manufacturing companies can use Nintex’s process management and automation functionalities to digitize and standardize their processes, improve supplier operations, increase compliance, improve efficiency at production facilities, streamline equipment inspections, accelerate purchase-to-pay cycles, simplify order management, automate procurement processes, and more.

Plex

Description: Plex, by Rockwell Automation, is a manufacturing solution provider that helps manufacturers connect, track, analyze, and automate their business. With the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform, users can access manufacturing execution (MES), quality management, supply chain planning, ERP, production monitoring, process automation, analytics, and asset performance management capabilities. For example, a manufacturing company can use Plex’s solution to maximize plant control, optimize production efficiencies, automate processes, eliminate manual errors, maximize uptime, orchestrate plant floor processes, and connect their people, systems, machines, and supply chains.

ProcessMaker

Description: ProcessMaker is a low-code BPM and workflow automation software provider. Its BPM offerings are known for their ease of use and customizability and offer a collection of features for designing, running, improving, and reporting on company processes. Manufacturers can use ProcessMaker to control costs, streamline services, improve operational agility, reduce paperwork, and maintain the interoperability of their systems, people, and equipment. The platform can also automate multiple manufacturing workflows, including access requests, work orders, security incident reporting, capital expense requests, contract management, purchase requisitions, facility relocations, and project requests.

Robocorp

Description: Robocorp is a Python-based, open-source robotic process automation solution. The cloud-based solution, Gen2 RPA, uses cloud robots that can run on any platform and scale horizontally to keep mission-critical processes going. With its Gen2 RPA solution, manufacturers can improve supply chain performance with tools capable of reducing processing times, improving scalability, and empowering teams to build, deploy and scale reliable automations. Specific capabilities cover financial reporting, supply chain planning, warehouse management, customer support, procurement, quality control, CRM, master data management, production scheduling, plant operations, and more.

SS&C Blue Prism

Description: SS&C Blue Prism provides enterprises worldwide with intelligent automation technology solutions to help users develop secure, scalable, intelligent digital workforces. With SS&C Blue Prism’s intelligent and robotic process automation capabilities, manufacturing companies can remain agile in the face of changing market dynamics, address skills shortages, remain competitive, manage complex supply chains, check inventory levels against actual stock, provide on-demand quotes to clients, optimize customer experiences, ensure standardization of data across the supply chain, enable seamless supplier integration, use digital workers to streamline operations, and more.

UiPath

Description: The UiPath RPA Platform allows anyone in an organization to build and use robots. Developers with more experience can use a rich development environment, while citizen developers can streamline simple, day-to-day tasks for themselves and their teams with AI-powered automations. The company’s manufacturing automation solutions can help organizations drive revenue, increase productivity, and improve processes across their value chain. Industry-specific features include supply chain management, customer engagement, employee empowerment, sales management, sourcing, purchasing, automated bills of material (BOM) management, marketing, production management, and more.