In most product companies, one of the major objectives in any organization’s quest for achieving manufacturing excellence involves lowering manufacturing costs while ensuring quality. This becomes more complex when there are multiple product lines and verticals/domains involved. One method that has been used effectively to achieve lower cost and eliminate defects is the automation of processes, systems and practices. Automation ensures that human error is eliminated, and also lowers process costs in regions where the cost of skilled labour is high. Henry Ford’s introduction of the Ford T model automobile in the early 1900s, which was mass produced using assembly lines, subdivision of labour, and a higher degree of automation that previously, is one of the early incidences of the usage of the concept of automation combined with streamlined manufacturing systems.