As the global market is preparing to slowly and steadily return to a comparatively normalized world, the manufacturing vertical is not left behind. Such a sector not only has to execute measures to recover from the trouble caused in this pandemic time but also has to take strong actions for facilitating business continuity. According to a current study, about 65-70 percent of the manufacturers are concerned about the financial collision, yet 41 percent are worried about the effect on their manpower and reduction in productivity, whereas almost 30-40% has concerns over decreased consumption which may result from a reduction in customer confidence.
The lone way to keep pace with fast development cycles whilst managing business continuity is with automation. Typically, enterprises whose major product(s) is not software are afraid to expense in automated tests fearing that the returns won’t be acceptable or if there will be a positive return at all. The technological disruption during the Covid situation has resulted in the introduction of a series of intelligent software and programmable automation into the manufacturing procedures. However, the inadequate experience with automation, lack of proper tools, DevOps practices, and AI & IoT, and having legacy infrastructure can make the conversion from traditional procedures to DevOps-centric automation quite challenging. In short, the manufacturing sector is still in a nascent phase on its digital transformation journey with most of the smart factory initiatives and Industry 4.0 at the beginning stage.