This whitepaper describes how smart manufacturing uses Intelligent Process Automation, AI, IIoT, RPA, analytics, and cloud data platforms to create connected, data driven factories that improve efficiency, quality, flexibility, and sustainability. It offers a roadmap from low complexity steps like streamlining workflows and data visualization through IIoT, predictive maintenance, digital twins, and advanced BI. It stresses budget friendly approaches such as legacy app modernization, partial automation, and Automation as a Service, and illustrates use cases including automated order processing, lights out monitoring, chatbots, and process mining, then closes with practical next steps for pilots and workforce upskilling.

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