Agentic automation built for manufacturing
Creating great products is just the start. With agentic automation, you can streamline manufacturing processes to drive growth, improve end-to-end experiences, and control risk.
Agentic automation built for manufacturing
Make your manufacturing operations more resilient and responsive to take on emerging challenges such as nearshoring, tariffs, decarbonization, and smart factory features.
Agentic automation frees up resources, increases throughput, and empowers your entire operation to adjust to market trends.
Rein in costs
30%
reduction in maintenance costs
PwC, 2025
Boost productivity
40%
increase in productivity gains by 2035 with the use of AI in manufacturing
Accenture, 2016
Capture opportunity
$400–$660 billion
of additional value is expected in the CPG space annually
McKinsey, 2023
Process and discrete manufacturing automation use cases
Every manufacturer—process or discrete—relies on behind-the-scenes efficiencies to keep the shop floor running. Find out how industry leaders do just that with the UiPath Platform™.
- Sourcing and procurement
- Supply chain management
- Production and maintenance
- Customer and field service
- Compliance and sustainability
Improve productivity across sourcing and procurement
Enhance sourcing performance by improving cost efficiency, timeliness, accuracy, compliance, supplier relationships, and productivity.
Use cases:
Invoice processing and exception management
Raw material pricing updates and monitoring
Vendor onboarding, updates, and performance monitoring
Automated legal and compliance checks
Streamline supply chain processes and logistics
Optimize the flow of materials, reduce lead times, minimize stockouts, and improve overall supply chain performance.
Use cases:
Bill of lading creation and updates
Goods receipts matching, updates, and amendments
Transit shipment—contract validation and monitoring
Critical parts inventory monitoring and reporting
Real-time visibility for proactive management of production and enhanced quality control
Automate shop floor operations to improve production assets as well as create time and cost savings.
Use cases:
Intelligent work order bundling and scheduling
Operational visibility through real-time reporting
Preventive/predictive maintenance and updates to plans
Production and quality control and decision support
Incident management and reporting
Personalized offerings, optimized field service operations, and lower costs
Streamline client engagement and enrich the customer experience with service operations across all channels.
Use cases:
Automated data collection and validation (for dealers and suppliers)
Service desk integrations
Claims and warranty automation—validation, approvals, and assessments
Pricing customization
Service order processing and tracking
Consolidate sustainability compliance monitoring and performance tracking
Enable data-driven decisions to meet regulatory sustainability requirements more effectively.
Use cases
Data collection for energy consumption, emissions, and waste
Integration with third-party data sources, databases, and portals
Automated compliance monitoring and alerting
Benchmarking and competitive analysis
Streamline complex and critical process workflows across your manufacturing value chain
Achieve operational efficiency by igniting productivity and growth—and improving field and customer experiences while creating a digital foundation for growth.
Enrich the customer experience
Maintain your preferred supplier status with top order and service experiences.
Improve revenue growth
Capitalize on new sales opportunities. Scale go-to-market to drive upsells.
Drive overall equipment effectiveness
Connect your equipment, systems, and programs to drive continuous improvement.
With UiPath, you can apply the same mindset you use to build innovative products to edge out the competition.
Automation by manufacturing types
Discrete manufacturing
With UiPath, discrete manufacturers can drive operational excellence and higher productivity by automating repetitive tasks, reducing errors, and optimizing processes.
In industries such as automotive, electronics, apparel, fashion and luxury, high-tech, machinery and equipment, and construction, discrete manufacturers can streamline operations for faster time-to-market, smoother regulatory compliance, and better customer experiences.
Process industries
UiPath helps process manufacturers achieve higher efficiency, reduced costs, and improved accuracy by automating processes across the enterprise.
Agentic automation helps process manufacturers in the oil and gas, chemicals, food and beverage, beauty and personal care, engineering, and services sectors gain complete visibility into critical business processes.
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