Introduction to Fundamentals of Automation
By - Manish ( Growwstacks)
A quick Intro about me
I love helping Small & Medium Businesses to
Implement AI & Automation
Manish
Founder - Growwstacks
Ex. Bloomberg LP
What are we going to learn in this level
You are here!
Level 4 : Automation & AI Agents
What are we going to cover today ?
✨Introduction to Automations
✨What is the difference between Automations & AI Powered Automations
✨Understanding the Make.com interface
✨Setting Up scenario
✨What is an App or Module ?
✨What are different types of Modules
✨Configure a module
✨Connecting Modules
✨Mapping of the scenario
Let’s get into some Madness!
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What is an Automation?
An automation is a process that is set by a human & demands no human
intervention!
Sounds crazy right?
Some Examples of Automations
A robotic arm in 1961 was one of the key
discoveries in automation that laid off
more than 50% of mundane task
workforce.
These automations are classified as:
Fixed Automations!
There are two types of automation!
Fixed Programmable
✨ Robotic Arm ✨ CNC Machines
✨ Conveyor belts ✨ Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs)
✨ Packaging systems ✨ Industrial Robots with Software Logic
But wait there’s another term called AI Automations?
How is it different form these conventional ones?
For a long time we had robots !
But what about robots?
were they made intelligent enough!
We have been hearing about robots form childhood, atleast me!
We never saw them conquering the roads or our workforce!
Can someone tell me why ?
It’s the Intelligence
It’s the Intelligence for these robots that
was always a challenge!
Why was it a challenge ?
✨Because there were not enough people who were working on creating data
sets for these robots to learn things form.
✨Every robot was being trained on a particular use case only but not for
general purposes.
Then came AI & Gen AI
Which laid the foundation of intelligence for a machine filled up of metal ,
screws & wires.
How it changed ?
Now Artificial intelligence itself is trained on a large data sets , hence there's
no need to prepare every robot differently. Rather , use GenAI & AI to make
is super powerful & Impactful
That’s what gave rise to the concept of Intelligent Robots
Intelligent Robots
Now how are robots related to automations??
Here is how!
All clear until now?
Let’s understand MAKE.com
For Example
Lets understand MAKE.com UI
Demo of creating a scenario
Everyone clear with Interface??
What is an App or Module
A module is like a building block in Make.com.
It connects to an app (like Gmail, Google Sheets,
etc.) and tells it what to do like “send an email” or
“add a row to a spreadsheet.”
Think of each module as one action or step in your
automation.
Demo setting up a module
Each module has a some job to do!
Each job is classified as 5 tasks:
Action
As the name suggests Action Modules are used to perform an action.
Examples of Action Module includes:
• Get the details about a post
• Add a row to a spreadsheet Data Collected
Bundle
• Send a push notification
• Create a report
Searches
A Search module will look for data that you specify and return results.
Example of Search Module:
Search Module
Sheets Data
Search for any specific data
like show information of
people above age 30-35
Triggers
A trigger module will usually be the first module at the beginning of your scenario.
Two main types of Triggers
Polling Trigger Instant Trigger
Watches a service and Watches an account
Provide updates each (Eg: FB or LinkedIn) &
time a scenario is returns any new
activated information instantly
Iterator
It extract a list / group of items (known as an Array) and split it up into many
separate bits of information (known as Bundles)
Before understanding Iterator, it is important to understand what is an
Array & Bundle
Iterator
An array is just a list of items grouped together.
Think of this as a box with multiple chocolates inside
Iterator
In MAKE, an array could be:
✨ A list of email attachments
✨ Rows from a Google Sheet
✨Items in a shopping cart
✨ Messages from a chat app
Iterator
A Bundle is a single packet of data that MAKE uses in each step of
your automation
Each Bundle is one unit of data that passes through scenario at a time
Think of this as one chocolate taken out of the box
Iterator
An Iterator turns the big array (a box of chocolates) into individual
bundles (one item at a time) so the next module can work on them
Iterator
List / Array Bundle
Aggregator
Think of Aggregator as just opposite to Iterator, it takes multiple bundles
of information and combine then into a single bundle.
Aggregator
Multiple Bundles Single Bundle
Think of it as putting multiple parcels in one van for delivery
Time for the Usecase
