INT346: Robot Process Automation Basics

L: 2 T: 0 P: 2

Course Outcomes: Through this course students should be able to

CO1:: describe the basics of robotics process automation.

CO2:: explain Automation Anywhere's RPA architecture.
CO3:: use suitable use cases and best practices for automation.
CO4:: identify different types of tasks that can be automated.
CO5:: justify feasibility and complexity analysis on the identified RPA candidates.
CO6:: develop an automation pipeline of business processes that need to be automated.

Unit 1 Exposure to Robot Process Automation: Introduction to RPA, Types of automation,

Difference between RPA and traditional automation, Benefits of RPA, Why RPA?, Outlining
the RPA Lifecycle
Identifying Automation Processes: Identifying RPA candidates, Performing top-level benefit
analysis, Prioritizing RPA candidates, Filling the Process Assessment Template, Gathering
resources and examining processes, Checking for elements that prevent automation,
Defining input and output metrics

Unit 2 Finding a suitable process for automation- What can be automated?, Characteristics
required for a process to be automated, Manual process description and target systems,
Process diagram, Process details, Exceptions
Determining and Designing Automation Process: Determining saving and cost, Using the
ROI calculator, Performing Process Steps, Filling the Process design template

Unit 3 Robotic process Automation Use Cases – Healthcare, Banking/Finance, Tax, Retail, human
Resource Operations, Telecommunication ,IT and Customer Services.
Automation Anywhere: Automation Anywhere Architecture, Control room features-
Dashboard, Repository Manager, Operation Room, User Management, Audit Trail, Task
Schedules, Security, Clients, and Credential Manage

Unit 4 Build and manage bot : logic of building a bot , Create, record, save, run and adding
properties to a task, Types of recorders: Smart Recorder, Screen Recorder, and Web
Recorder, Manage bots with Web Control Room
Working with Bots Basic :Variables, types of variables , Strings, String operations , If/Else,
Looping, Mouse Click Details, Keyboard usage details, Comment, Play Sound, Clip Board
Operations, Running Automated Task

Unit 5 Windows Automation: Create and Delete – File and Folder, File Transfer Protocol, Window
Actions, Log to File, Manage Windows Controls, Object Cloning.
Web and Excel Automation Web Automation: Web Recorder, Launch Website, extract data,
Read from CSV/Text, Excel commands, Loop Commands, Data Extraction/Input (CSV and
Text file)
Unit 6 AA Advanced features: excel automation, email automation, error handling, image
recognition

Text Books: 1. ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION: GUIDE TO BUILDING SOFTWARE ROBOTS,

AUTOMATE REPETITIVE TASKS & BECOME AN RPA CONSULTANT by RICHARD MURDOCH,
PEARSON
References: 1. ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION PROJECTS by NANDAN MULLAKARA,AND ARUN
KUMAR ASOKAN., PACKT PUBLISHING

List of practical’s:

1. Introduction to Automation Anywhere Architecture

2. Working with variables and strings
3. Implementation of conditional statements
4. Implementation of iterations
5. Logic of building bots
6. Create, record, save, run and adding properties to a task
7. Working with different types of recorders.
8. Manage bots with web control room
9. Implementation of windows automation
10. Implementation of web and excel automation