Invio Automation launches automation assessment service

By The Robot Report Staff | December 24, 2024

Invio Automation launched its Factory of the Future Rapid Automation Assessment (RAA) service. Invio said it designed the service to help manufacturers accelerate their automation journey. 

The RAA presents a structured approach to evaluating a factory’s automation readiness. It identifies opportunities for automation and delivers a detailed report with actionable insights, including business cases, estimated costs, timelines, and recommendations for success. This ensures customers understand exactly where robotics can make a difference before making changes to their processes. 

“There are complexities and nuances unique to the operations of every manufacturer,” said David Regan, Director of Business Development, Factory of the Future at Invio Automation. “Our Factory of the Future team has walked thousands of factory floors and brings a deep bench of expertise that delivers back to our customers the roadmap and blueprint for successfully deploying automation that dramatically de-risks the entire process from start to finish.”

Invio Automation designs, builds, implements, and sustains high-value automation systems. It focuses on helping customers accelerate growth in specialized markets including medical devices, life sciences, and advanced manufacturing. The Lansing, Mich.-based company uses deep domain expertise and extensive engineering capabilities to partner with customers globally from product design and R&D pre-validation through full automation in high-growth applications. 

Invio said RAA allows it to meet customer expectations better

Invio said its customers value high precision, quality, efficiency, and safety. Invio’s RAA service is a lean, faster-moving engineering effort focusing on diagnosing a factory’s automation readiness. A cross-functional engineering team from Invio follows a structured approach to identify, score, rank, and prioritize the landscape of opportunities inside the 4-walls of a factory.

Some benefits of the program include: 

• RAA gives customers a comprehensive overview of each automation opportunity. Invio said its team delivers a comprehensive summary of each potential project it identifies. This includes a review of any fundamental facility or end-user changes required to support the project. Additionally, the team provides an analysis of any expected technical challenges with recommendations to mitigate those risks.
• The program reduces the time needed to make critical decisions. The RAA process and approach gathers key stakeholders early in the process to build consensus and segment opportunities, often by process block or solution type. The team guides manufacturers through a structured process that reduces the unknowns and potential risk factors inherent in transformational projects.
• RAA provides a roadmap for success. Invia’s team works side by side with its customers’ engineering, product design, quality, and executive teams to develop blueprints and roadmaps for transforming their factories to meet their future business needs.
• Oftentimes, manufacturers interested in automation struggle to find where to start. Invia said its Factory of the Future Project Prioritization Matrix allows its team to identify, score, and rank, each potential project. It does this based on six metrics: site scalability, enterprise scalability, operational effort required, estimated CAPEX costs, engineering expertise, and estimated cost and value generation to the business. 
• RAA de-risks automation deployment decisions. Invia’s goal is to invest early in key engineering activities. This allows it to pull forward about 3-5% of a project’s total cost, de-risking the overall scope and budget of major initiatives. The structured process greatly reduces uncertainties and potential risks, paving the way for transformational projects, Invio said.

“The RAA benefits manufacturers of all sizes,” said Jeff Chu, Director of Factory of the Future. “The goal of the Factory of the Future team is to invest early in key engineering activities—pulling forward about 3-5% of a project’s total cost—to de-risk the overall scope and budget of major initiatives and pave the way for transformative projects.”