Strategic Operations and Supply Chain Management: Robotics Impact

This report delves into the multifaceted effects of robotics across several key industries, including airlines, healthcare, and consumer goods. It explores how robotics, encompassing mechanical, information, electronic, and computer science, is revolutionizing business processes through automation. The report examines the specific applications of robotics in these sectors, such as baggage handling and inventory management in airlines and consumer goods, respectively. Furthermore, it analyzes the impact of robotics on the healthcare industry, highlighting its role in enhancing operational efficiencies and assisting with administrative and clinical tasks. The report also touches upon the broader influence of robotics in agriculture and manufacturing, emphasizing increased productivity, cost reduction, and the creation of new job roles. The conclusion summarizes the benefits of robotics in modern business, emphasizing its exponential development and potential to transform various industries. The report references several academic sources to support its findings.

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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................2
Discussion......................................................................................................................2
Effect of robotics in three industries..........................................................................2
Impact of robotics on industries.................................................................................3
Conclusion......................................................................................................................5
References......................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
This report aims to discuss the effects of robotics in several industries. The effect of
robotics in airline, healthcare and the consumer goods industries is briefly stated in this
report. The impact of the robotics in the Healthcare Industry, the Financial Industry and the
Business Consulting Industry is concisely specified in this report. Finally an appropriate
conclusion is provided.
Discussion
The branch of science and engineering that involves the mechanical engineering,
information engineering, electronic engineering and computer science for making the
enhanced machines is called robotics (Car 2014). This branch majorly deals with designing,
operation, construction, as well as the utilisation of the robots and computer systems in order
to control, sensory feedback and the information processing.
Effect of robotics in three industries
Effect of robotics in airline industry: The use of robotics is being extensively done in
several industries all over the world and it is reshaping the methods by which many manual
work is executed across the industries by the automation of the tasks. A robot is used that is
linked to the digital information screen and it is able to clasp the communicating dialogue and
it could offer the beneficial information on the digital screen whenever it is provoked that
includes the information of the airport facility and the details of the airport inventory. The
airline industry has been extensively utilising the robotics in helping in several tasks such as
the car parking, baggage handling, at the airports (Siciliano and Khatib 2016). The robotics is
also being extensively utilised in the airline industry for enhancing the supply chain. With the
help of robotics automation, the equipment of material handling would weigh and move
cargo to the next location and the machines would sort it out automatically and then manage

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the inventory during the time when the breakdown and the buildup of the cargo would be
done by the robotic system.
The robotics is extensively utilised in the consumer goods industry for better handling
of the inventory and enhance the supply chain by monitoring the manufacturing aspects and
the distribution aspects (Taylor et al. 2016).
The robotics impact the supply chain of the healthcare industry by allowing the
enhanced stage of the optimisation of the productivity by redefining of the work and also re-
assigning the employees for executing the activities with the higher added value and the
activities that are to be completed quickly. The implementation of the robotics in the
healthcare is an extensive process and in the present times it is being experimented but the
supply chain of the healthcare organisation has significant opportunities to deploy the
robotics technology for extending the value of the previous investments in the technology.
Impact of robotics on industries
The trend that is selected is the robotics trend. This technology is being extensively
implemented in the various industries for enhancing the business process of the companies. In
the healthcare industry, there have been significant impact of the robotics (Corke 2017). The
mechanical and the virtual robotics have helped significant amount of people in the variety of
the tasks outside and within the operating rooms and the laboratories. The robots could assist
in improving the operational efficiencies with overtaking the repetitive or the administrative
clinical tasks like the monitoring of the vitals statistics of patients as well as logging the data
of the patient in the EHR. The robots not solely provide the precision in the completion of the
tasks, it could reduce the workload of the clinicians and providing them with more time to
spend with the patients.

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The robotics have impacted significantly in the agriculture industry as industrial
robots could easily as well as quickly pick and then keep the food items deprived of the issue
of any bacteria along with a significant rate that is far faster along with increased durability
than any human employee (Lin, Abney and Bekey 2014). The robots could perform the
extensive task of the removal of weed, manage the breeding of plant and then perform the
laborious task of several kind with the support of AI that provides the advanced technology
of vision sensor and the image recognition. The advanced vision systems comprises of the
capacity of detecting both the internal and external defects in the food products. The farming
has been also significantly impacted from the introduction of the robotics. Along with the
eruption in the productivity since the industrial automation in the food and the industries of
agriculture, it is presently considered that the introduction of the robotics would help in
increasing the yield and the production rate with the reduced costs associated with the
manufacturer (Saha 2014).
The robotics technology is presently developing in the industry of manufacturing.
With the new developments in the automation, this industry is implementing the utilisation of
the robotics in workplace. Some of the ways by which the industrial robots affects the
workplace are the creation of the innovative, increasingly intellectual focussed jobs,
promotion of the productivity, time and cost efficiency and even promotion of the greener
workspace (Majidi 2014). The robotics have been considered as possessing the ability of
eliminating the undesirable jobs that might be dangerous and replace the tasks with the jobs
that have been considered as appealing like the programming or engineering. The robotics
implemented in the manufacturing industry increases the performance and the productivity.
The robots could keep on performing the tasks all day long even though there is no human
input for making the robots work (Kehoe et al. 2015).

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Conclusion
Therefore, it can be concluded that the robotics have been beneficial for several
sectors of business in the modern world and this technology is developing at an exponential
rate for including several more business sectors and industries. The branch of science and
engineering that involves the mechanical engineering, information engineering, electronic
engineering and computer science for making the enhanced machines is called robotics. The
robotics have impacted significantly in the agriculture industry as industrial robots could
easily as well as quickly pick and then keep the food items deprived of the issue of any
bacteria along with a significant rate that is far faster along with increased durability than any
human employee

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