The Importance of Automation Feasibility Studies

The Importance of Automation Feasibility Companies unwilling to take risks in industry's digital transformation are conducting automation feasibility studies. To keep pace with rapidly changing values in industry and ensure business sustainability, Turkish manufacturers have begun transforming the traditional methods that built their operations. Automation work, which occupies a central place in this transformation, carries great significance. Before starting automation work, feasibility must be assessed correctly. Emphasizing that digital transformation is inevitable for industry, ZGN Otonom & Robotik Board Chairman Bülent Doğru stated, "Automation feasibility is a reporting study that details the suitability of technological software, equipment and system investments to be made in an industrial field, their cost, comparison to the current situation, detailed implementation timeline and investment payback period." He then outlined the advantages of automation feasibility as follows:

Why should it be done?

I can say that automation feasibility study reveals with high accuracy at the outset what will change in the company's or factory's operations if opportunities identified in the industrial field are realized, what benefits it will provide, and what the advantageous and disadvantageous aspects will be.

What advantages does it provide?

It prevents incorrect investments or investments made at the wrong time, and avoids loss of cash and time. It allows the impacts of investment to be seen at the beginning of the process and minimizes the risk of encountering negative surprises after investment implementation. It also provides the opportunity to look from different perspectives and capture different alternatives and opportunities. It ensures proper planning of the investment budget. Since many scenarios are evaluated, encountering surprises and setbacks during implementation is largely prevented. With these advantages, I can say that conducting automation feasibility study allows companies to make progress with solid footing.

Professional and Comprehensive Support

Noting that they conduct automation feasibility studies that respond to all needs, Bülent Doğru stated, "As ZGN Otonom ve Robotik, we actively perform feasibility studies both in the field and at the desk. Depending on the size of the field, we spend full-time in the field for as long as needed, examining all processes in detail. By thoroughly investigating current processes and operations, we note bottlenecks, requirements and optimizations. After field work, we conduct detailed calculations, research and possible design processes at the desk. We organize meetings with field personnel to review the calculations and alternative scenarios. We run simulations based on revised calculations and finalize the feasibility according to results. After these studies, we organize a feasibility closing meeting with the field team and deliver a comprehensive report." he said.