How COVID-19 Is Accelerating Business Automation.

COVID-19 will be the spark that accelerates automation in many companies.  Automation has been key to improve efficiencies in companies.  Now it is key to mitigate disruption due to future pandemics.  Everyone has been impacted by COVID-19 and has seen what a pandemic can do to the world.  There are some great links included focus on supply chain, COVID-19 and automation.

Collection of COVID-19 and Automation Training and Research

• Army of logistics robots sort out 200,000 packages a day
• Automating the Grocery Warehouse.
• Automation Quotes by Top Minds.
• Battle of the Robot Armies – Jeff Bezos vs Elon Musk.
• Coronavirus Accelerates Automation Across Industry.
• Coronavirus Supply Chain Disruption.
• COVID-19 and Supply Chain Restructuring.
• Discuss Coronavirus Impact on Supply Chain.
• E-Commerce Retailer Doubles Warehouse Capacity with Robotic Goods to Person System.
• Food Supply Chain Is Strong.
• How Coronavirus Could Slow Down Amazon Deliveries.
• Robot Workers Moving Boxes – Replacing Humans?
• Supply Chain Workers Putting in Overtime for COVID-19
• The Gigantic Grocery Warehouses Built like Living Organisms.

Automation Quotes

• “The coronavirus will accelerate the usage of robots and automation throughout supply chain.” ~Dave Waters
• “The predictive supply chain: artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning.” ~SupplyChainToday.com.
• “Technologies that are emerging today will soon be shaping the world tomorrow and well into the future – with impacts to economies and to society at large. Now that we are well into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it’s critical that we discuss and ensure that humanity is served by these new innovations so that we can continue to prosper.” ~Mariette DiChristina
• “Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.” ~John F. Kennedy
• “COVID-19 will most likely be the spark that accelerates the acceptance and deployment of drones and robots delivering product to your door.” ~Dave Waters
• “I predict that, because of artificial intelligence and its ability to automate certain tasks that in the past were impossible to automate, not only will we have a much wealthier civilization, but the quality of work will go up very significantly and a higher fraction of people will have callings and careers relative to today.” ~Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.

“Technology, through automation and artificial intelligence, is definitely the most disruptive sources.” ~Alain Dehaze

“Supply Chain automation using emerging technologies such as IoT and artificial intelligence will drive efficiency like we have never seen before.” ~Dave Waters