Last month I had my mind totally blown.
I’m talking a full on Michael Bay summer blockbuster explosion.
You see, as much as I write about automation here at ArchSmarter, I’ve never had a systematic approach to automation.
Sure, I can create a Revit macro or Dynamo graph with the best of them. But I haven’t had a way to position the graph or macro within the larger context of automation.
For example, how could a particular Revit macro progress from automating a single task into automating an entire process?
I could create the pieces and join some of them together but I couldn’t see the whole puzzle.
All of this changed last month when I met Rok Kim at the BiLT NA conference in Toronto.
Rok is a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) specialist. He studies how to systematically automate tasks.
Over coffee, Rok explained his approach to automation and instantly shed light on my own understanding of automation. It was like a light suddenly went on in my head. I could finally see my own…