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Process Mining
Simulating automation potential
The Automation potential dashboard enables you to see potential savings for activities in your process. For example, if you determine an activity as a bottleneck in the process graph, you can calculate the impact of automating the activity. From the Automation potential dashboard you can simulate various What-if scenarios to identify which activities are most costly and how much time or money possibly could be saved when automating one or more activities.
The Automation potential charts highlight the simulated activities with the highest simulated automation rate.
For each activity, the Automation rate, and the Manual processing time are displayed. See the illustration below.
The Simulate button on a KPI chart enables you to start an automation potential simulation for the activity, whereas the Modify simulation button enables you to modify the parameter values for the existing simulation.
automated field is set to true.
The manual processing time is the total amount of time that is actually spent working on the events.
Event start and the Event end.
Event start is not available, the Automation potential simulation will display the throughput time between the Event end and the previous Event end as the Manual processing time.
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Duration |
Description |
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Cycle time |
The time between the
Event start and the Event end. The actual time worked on an event.
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Throughput time |
The time between the
Event end and the previous Event end.
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The All automation opportunities chart displays the activities based on the current Automation rate, which is determined by the percentage of events that are automated. The activities with the lowest automation rate are displayed first. See the illustration below.
Below is a description of the elements.
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Element |
Description |
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Activity |
The name of the activity. |
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Automation rate |
The percentage of events that are automated. |
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Manual processing time |
The total amount of time that is actually spent working on the events. |
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FTE |
The total time that is needed to perform the work for events. FTE is calculated by dividing the manual processing time in hours by the number of working hours. The number of working hours is calculated from the number of working days in the selected period * 8 working hours per day. |
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Simulate |
A toggle button that displays the results of the simulation. If you have not performed a simulation for the action, the Modify simulation panel is displayed, where you can enter different values to use for calculating the automation potential. |
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Enables you to open a context menu with the following options: • Modify simulation: displays the Modify simulation panel where you can enter different values to use for calculating the automation potential. • Send to Automation Hub: displays the Send to Automation Hub form, which enables you to submit an idea for automation. See Sending automation ideas to UiPath Automation Hub. |
Follow these steps to display the Modify simulation panel.
- Click on
in the menu on the left of the dashboard. - Locate the activity for which you want to perform a simulation.
- Click on
in the Actions column of the activity, and select Modify simulation from the context menu.
The Modify simulation form is displayed to the right.
See the illustration below.
You can also click on the Simulate or Modify simulation button on an activity in the Automation potential chart, to display the Modify simulation panel.
This simulation parameters are used to determine how much of the activity can be successfully automated. Below is an overview of the parameters that can be set to perform an automation potential simulation.
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Parameter |
Description |
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% of digital input |
A percentage value that indicates how much of the input is digital. |
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% of structured digital input |
A percentage range that indicates how much of the digital input is structured. |
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Number of ways to complete the process |
The number of different variations possible in which the process or activity can be completed. |
If all the input data is structured and digital and if there is only one way to complete the process, then the process is 100% automatable. If the Automation potential is 90%, this indicates that 90% of the activity or process can be automated.
For a detailed description on how these parameters are used to perform an automation potential simulation see the Automation Potential section on the Detailed Assessment Algorithm page.
Follow these steps to perform an automation potential simulation to calculate the automation potential.
The impact on the automation rate, the manual processing time, and the FTE for the activity is displayed in the Automation potential dashboard. Next to the current Automation rate, the Automation rate calculated from the simulation is displayed, as well as the difference percentage. For the Manual processing time and the FTE the difference between the current value and the simulated value is displayed. See the illustration below.
The automation simulations are saved. When you reopen the Automation potential dashboard, all active simulations are displayed.
