AUTOMATION OPPORTUNITIES IN THE IT INDUSTRY
Automation : The Future
Two decades ago, it was the stuff of science fiction. Today, it’s just a fact of life. The machines really are taking over, especially in the manufacturing realm. The $152 billion global
industrial automation market has grown 6 percent a year, on an average, since 2003, the analysts reported, which is nearly twice as fast as overall industrial production. Successive advances in technology are making the economics of automation and robotics increasingly compelling for many companies in a growing number of industries.
What does this mean for an Engineer ?
If you are an engineer and want to make a difference in the way things work, Automation is definitely a space you must consider. As an automation engineer, you could
- Work with OEMs and SPM manufacturers, understand the purpose and functioning of the machine being manufactured, and program it to function like it should.
- Work with System Integrators who help the OEMs choose controllers based on their requirement and aid them in programming the functions
- Work with Automation Solution providers who design complete solutions for the User Industry to integrate all the individual machines, which will help you in gaining Industry Domain knowledge
- Work at the User end, in the integration of all the machines purchased. Here, you could also be engaged in eliciting data from the machines to analyze the effectiveness of production
- Work with the IT services provider to extract the real time data taken from the machines and analyze the same along with data from the ERP, in the perspective of investment and returns.
