> Being able to fully-automate manufacturing of silicon chips is an incredibly opulent affair, but if you can simply automate a paper-bound business process tha

> Being able to fully-automate manufacturing of silicon chips is an incredibly opulent affair, but if you can simply automate a paper-bound business process that is on a hot-path (I.e. used many times a day), it could potentially save a struggling business. That's funny. I work at a very large fab, and of all the places I've worked, this is the one that's most in need of the sort of in-office hot path optimizations you mention, and doubly worse is that it's the least susceptible to allowing someone to do anything about it. (In fact, it's regressing. This month saw a fab-wide rollout of a document management system that has caused a ~10x increase in wall clock time for attaching files to emails or through forms on the intranet. Now consider what that means when the company exhibits a pathological form of the passing-MS-Office-documents-around-to-each-other mindset...)