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Manufacturing automation that orchestrates every operation

Your operation competes as one system, not isolated processes. UiPath orchestrates agents, robots, and people across the workflow so productivity and growth compound.

Manufacturing automation that orchestrates every operation

Your operation competes as one system, not isolated processes. UiPath orchestrates agents, robots, and people across the workflow so productivity and growth compound.

Manufacturers compete as systems, not silos

Pilots tied to safe, small problems do not add up. The leaders ahead orchestrate agents, robots, and people across the entire operation so local wins compound.

80%
of manufacturers plan to invest 20%+ of improvement budgets in smart manufacturing.
76%
of CEOs see AI as the technology most likely to disrupt their industry in three years.
13.9%
higher productivity growth at the world's most productive industrial companies.

Ready-to-deploy solutions for manufacturing

Built on the UiPath Platform, each solution combines AI agents, automation, and orchestration to deliver measurable outcomes faster.

Ready to deploy

UiPath Solution for commercial pricing

Quote-to-order, optimized in minutes.

Turn inbound requests for quote (RFQs) into approved, optimized quotes in minutes. AI recommends pricing within commercial guardrails while UiPath orchestrates the full quote-to-order workflow.

  • Faster quote cycles
  • Higher quote conversion
  • Margin protection
  • Less manual quoting

Ready to deploy

UiPath Solution for inventory management

Balance inventory and service with confidence.

AI agents turn fragmented demand signals, inventory positions, and supply constraints into executable replenishment decisions, augmenting your existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

  • Lower excess inventory
  • Stronger working capital
  • Faster response to disruption
  • Higher service levels

Ready to deploy

UiPath Solution for source-to-pay

Supplier collaboration with built-in compliance.

Manage supplier relationships, reduce purchasing friction, and improve spend visibility. Agentic workflows coordinate sourcing, contracts, and approvals end to end.

  • Better supplier collaboration
  • More spend visibility
  • Stronger compliance
  • Lower operating costs

Ready to deploy

UiPath Solution for order-to-cash

Faster revenue, fewer disputes.

Accelerate revenue realization while improving customer experience. Agentic workflows coordinate order processing, fulfillment, invoicing, and collections across the operation.

  • Faster cash collection
  • Fewer billing disputes
  • Better working capital
  • Improved customer experience

Ready to deploy

UiPath Solution for enterprise application testing

Validate SAP and critical apps as they change.

AI-powered test generation and autonomous execution validate SAP and enterprise applications as they change. UiPath is an SAP Solution Extension (SolEx) partner.

  • Less manual testing effort
  • Higher release confidence
  • Cross-system validation
  • Minimal operational disruption

Manufacturing automation use cases

See how the UiPath Platform coordinates the high-friction processes that keep manufacturing operations running.

Field services

Coordinate field technicians, dispatch systems, work orders, inventory availability, and customer communications.

  • Faster dispatch decisions
  • Higher first-time fix rates
  • Improved technician productivity
  • Better customer experiences

Work order management

Manage complex work orders across ERP, maintenance systems, suppliers, technicians, and operations teams.

  • Faster work order resolution
  • Reduced manual coordination
  • Improved asset uptime
  • Greater operational visibility
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One platform for end-to-end orchestration

Beyond the ready-to-deploy solutions, the UiPath Platform automates and orchestrates the unique processes that run your business.

Coordinated field service

Coordinate technicians, dispatch, work orders, inventory availability, and customer communications across systems and teams.

Connected work orders

Manage complex work orders across ERP, maintenance systems, suppliers, technicians, and operations teams to lift asset uptime and visibility.

Autonomous customer requests

AI agents retrieve information, update systems, execute transactions, and coordinate work across processes, escalating complex situations to people when needed.

Explore the UiPath Platform

See how the Platform connects agents, robots, and people into one governed system for orchestrating enterprise work.

Go deeper on manufacturing automation

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EBOOK

The future of manufacturing is autonomous business

Learn how leading manufacturers move beyond task automation to orchestrate end-to-end outcomes through AI agents, automation, and human expertise.

Read the eBook
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WEBINAR

How procure-to-pay teams beat SLAs with agentic automation

See how leading organizations use agentic automation, case management, and orchestration to reduce procurement friction and accelerate approvals.

Watch how
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BLOG

Stop fighting fragmentation: why the adaptive enterprise wins

Why the enterprises winning today are the ones replacing fragmented, point-tool automation with a single adaptive orchestration layer.

Read the blog

Manufacturing automation FAQs

Common questions about manufacturing automation, including how RPA in manufacturing fits alongside agentic AI and what business orchestration and automation means for manufacturers.

  • Manufacturing automation is the use of technology to improve how work is performed across manufacturing organizations. While many people associate manufacturing automation with factory-floor equipment, robotics, and industrial control systems, it also includes the automation of business processes such as procurement, inventory management, pricing, customer service, finance, and field service operations.

  • Industrial automation focuses on physical production systems such as machinery, robotics, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and factory-floor operations. Manufacturing process automation focuses on the business processes that support manufacturing, including sourcing, inventory planning, order management, invoicing, customer service, and field operations. UiPath helps manufacturers automate and orchestrate these end-to-end business processes.

  • Manufacturing process automation uses AI agents, robotic process automation (RPA), application programming interfaces (APIs), and workflow orchestration to connect systems, automate repetitive work, and coordinate decisions across departments. This helps manufacturers reduce manual effort, improve visibility, and accelerate execution across supply chain, finance, customer experience, and operational processes.

  • Common RPA use cases in manufacturing include supplier onboarding, purchase order processing, invoice automation, inventory management, order processing, customer service, warranty claims, field service coordination, and ERP data synchronization. Manufacturers often use RPA as a foundation for broader agentic automation and process orchestration initiatives.

  • AI is helping manufacturers move beyond task automation to autonomous decision-making and process orchestration. AI agents analyze demand, supplier performance, pricing trends, customer requests, and operational data to recommend actions, execute approved decisions, and coordinate work across systems and teams.

  • Business orchestration and automation coordinates AI agents, automations, applications, documents, data, and people across end-to-end business processes. Rather than automating individual tasks, it helps manufacturers orchestrate outcomes across supply chain, finance, customer experience, and field service operations.

  • Manufacturers commonly automate inventory management, commercial pricing, sourcing and procurement, quote-to-cash, order-to-cash, customer service, field service operations, enterprise application testing, document processing, and financial workflows. The highest-value opportunities are often processes that span multiple systems, teams, and business functions.

  • Manufacturing automation software helps organizations improve productivity, reduce operational costs, accelerate decision-making, improve customer and supplier experiences, strengthen resilience, and increase visibility across business operations. Modern manufacturing automation solutions also enable organizations to safely deploy AI and scale automation across the enterprise.

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