Duroshox · Transformation / AI / Automation
AI-Led Automation & Productivity
Releasing time from recurring communications, audits and reporting.
Executive summary
AI-enabled workflows and automation saved 200+ man-hours per month across recurring work.
Context
Recurring workflows created an opportunity to release employee time. Newsletter turnaround was five days before the intervention.
Problem
Reduce manual effort in recurring communications, audits, reminders and X-MR control-chart reporting.
My role
I authored the organisation’s AI roadmap, built newsletter AI agents and automated audits, reminders and X-MR control charts.
Approach
- Authored the organisation’s AI roadmap.
- Built AI agents for newsletter creation.
- Automated audits, reminders and X-MR control charts in Excel.
Challenge & how I handled it
Almost the entire shop floor was used to tracking data in plain Excel sheets and had to move to X-MR control charts.
I automated the X-MR control charts in Excel so the new way took less effort than the old one, and moved almost all shop-floor users over to it.
Artefact
Newsletter workflow
- Inputs · department updates, photos, event notes
- AI agent · collect, summarise, draft
- Human review
- Formatted newsletter
- Distribution
X-MR · weekly individual-values control chart
Newsletter turnaround
Outcome
The combined automation initiatives saved 200+ man-hours per month. Newsletter turnaround fell from 5 days to 2 hours.
Tools used
- Generative AI
- n8n
- Power Automate
- Zapier
- Excel