Investment in automation means upgrading the automation system. It improves the performance of the production or operation or management processes. Automation upgrading is very much essential in business process but it is a complex task as to know where to upgrade. The upgrade can take place in people automation or process automation or production process automation or management automation.

Before making investments for upgrading and migrating the automation technologies you need to consider few factors.

• Production reliability: This factor is very important to improve business performance. Upgrading the production automation processes will increase the production quantity.
• Competition: competition is a main factor in automation upgrading, the production process is purely depends on the market demand. The new technology upgrading to get the more competitive advantages.
• Instrumentation: The migration strategies are being introduced by many vendors. They focus on the process capacity improvement with replacing of servers, software programs and controllers.
• Outsourcing: Upgrading and migration investment plans along with the outsourcing value will lead to the development of new technology automation with new technology for increasing the growth of outsourcing.
• Maintenance cost: Implementation of strategies in upgrading and migration investments will have to consider the maintenance costs. The technology upgrading process should reduce maintenance costs and increase the business profits.
• Proper planning: Proper plan is important in upgrading investments and migrating investments in technology. Proper plan avoids the replaced numbers in the process, reducing the processes failures.

The investment strategies regarding the upgrading and migration of automation is very much valuable to businesses as it results in the upgrading of the process facilities.