The reality is that RPA, AI, ML, etc ... are still years away when it comes to the industrial sectors (e.g. manufacturing, energy, oil & gas, etc).

Sure there are many PoCs, smaller projects, but in my experience, working on data centric projects with a few fortune 500 industrial companies, none of these technologies have been successfully implemented in production.

Perhaps for some back office & business-level applications, but certainly not for any production related use-cases (e.g. predictive maintenance).