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How OCR Can Accelerate Business Automation

By Dick Weisinger

A key technology that can enable business automation is optical character recognition (OCR), the ability to convert scanned images of text into machine-readable data. Business automation that uses OCR can streamline and optimize workflows, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. OCR

Automation Transforms the Back-end of Semiconductor Manufacturing

By Dick Weisinger

Semiconductors are the brains of the digital economy, powering everything from smartphones to self-driving cars. But making these tiny chips is not easy. It involves two main steps: front-end and back-end. The front-end process creates the wafer, a thin slice

Enterprise Automation: RPA to be Superceded by Newer Automation Tools

By Dick Weisinger

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is automation software that processes high-volume repetitive tasks in a business. RPA typically is applied to tedious, manual digital tasks that would normally be performed by an office worker. The RPA market in 2022 saw a

Hyperautomation: Choosing the Right Tools for Creating a Composable Modular Architecture

By Dick Weisinger

Despite years of ‘re-engineering’, business processes at many companies are broken. Process steps are typically inconsistent, not optimized, and often overlapping. The resultant business processes are inefficient and lack resilience and agility. The current generation of technology being used to

Automation: Inevitably there will be Winners and Losers

By Dick Weisinger

“Labor shortages are not going away,” said Gad Levanson, senior economist with The Conference Board. A survey by The Conference Board found that as many as 80 percent of companies are having a hard time finding and recruiting qualified workers.