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Healing Agent and AMS: a stable robot portfolio

An SAP screen changes and half your robot portfolio stalls? Healing Agent detects the interface change and repairs selectors on the fly, and our AMS team watches the whole portfolio so problems are caught before the business notices.

25incidents in the week after one SAP update. That is how many stoppages this example company's 60-robot portfolio logged before anyone could react.

Executive summary

Challenge

A 60-robot portfolio built over years; every source-system change breaks selectors.

What changes

Healing Agent repairs interfaces on the fly; Mientha's AMS team runs monitoring, fixes and evolution.

Business value

Fewer night alarms and stoppages; a predictable maintenance cost.

Systems & scope

UiPath Orchestrator, Healing Agent, Insights; Mientha AMS 24/7.

Illustrative scenario

A 60-robot portfolio, built over 5 years by three vendors

The robots run invoicing, payroll, reporting and logistics. They work until someone changes a screen, a field or permissions in a source system. Then the firefighting day begins.

The author of half the robots no longer works there. Documentation is partial. After a major SAP update, IT spends a week fixing selectors and new development stops.

The current reality

  1. SystemAn SAP update changes screen layouts
  2. Error riskRobots fail one after another at night
  3. WaitingInvoices and reports wait; the business calls in the morning
  4. HumanIT hunts for the robot's author and the documentation
  5. HumanManual selector fixes, robot by robot
  6. Error riskProcesses return after days; trust in automation erodes
HumanSystemWaitingError risk

The hidden cost of the current process

A robot failure costs twice: once in IT, once in the process that stopped.

  • 48 engineer-hours a month on interface repairs (on average, excluding post-update spikes).
  • Critical processes stall for hours before anyone notices.
  • Fear of change: teams postpone system updates because they “break the robots”.

The cost of doing nothing

A year of manual interface fixes≈ 25 900 €
3 years: the same maintenance debt≈ 77 800 €
Business-process downtimeoutside this model

You pay for the automation once; the manual process costs you again every month.

The process after automation

  1. AutomationHealing Agent detects the interface change at the first error
  2. AutomationRepairs the selectors on the fly and resumes the process
  3. AutomationAMS monitoring 24/7 watches every portfolio and queue
  4. HumanPermanent changes are approved by an engineer, fully documented
  5. AutomationA monthly report: stability, utilisation, recommendations
HumanAutomation

What the automation handles

  • Detecting and repairing interface changes on the fly
  • Monitoring queues, licences and performance 24/7
  • Alerts before unfinished queues touch the business

When a human decides

  • Approving permanent robot changes
  • Portfolio growth and new automations
  • Architecture decisions and standards

Before

Detecting a robot failurewhen the business calls
Repair after an interface changehours to days
Incidents after an SAP update~25 / week
Portfolio knowledgein heads, partial

After

Detecting a robot failureautomatic, within a minute
Repair after an interface changeon the fly / hours
Incidents after an SAP updatea handful
Portfolio knowledgedocumented

Value model: example assumptions

Illustrative model
8 interface incidents × 6 h of repair= 48 h / month
48 h × €45 engineer cost= €2,160 / month
12 months× 12
The annual repair cost alone (excluding downtime)≈ 25 920 €

Business benefits

  • Critical processes keep running while systems change
  • IT stops firefighting, and returns to building
  • A predictable monthly maintenance cost
  • A portfolio documented and measured, independent of its authors' memory

Board-level KPIs affected

process uptime · incident count · mean time to repair · automation ROI

What management gains

  • A monthly report: stability, utilisation, portfolio savings
  • Hard data for decisions: which robot to grow, which to retire
  • System updates stop being an operational risk

Estimate it for your organisation

hours released per month
annual capacity released

An illustrative estimate based on your inputs. It models released capacity and is not a savings promise.

Systems in this scenario

Inputs

  • UiPath Orchestrator
  • Robot logs and queues
  • Business requests

Mientha agentic layer

  • UiPath Agent Builder
  • UiPath robots
  • Maestro™ · Action Center

Core systems

  • SAP and source systems
  • UiPath Insights
  • ITSM

Human approval: Teams / Action Center

What we deliver

  • A portfolio audit: stability, documentation, risks
  • Healing Agent rollout on the highest-risk processes
  • 24/7 monitoring with alerts and escalation thresholds
  • Maintenance takeover from previous vendors
  • Documentation completed with every fix
  • A monthly stability-and-recommendations report

What we need to start

  • Orchestrator access (log reading)
  • The critical-process list and owners
  • Existing documentation, in any state
  • A service window for monitoring rollout

Implementation roadmap

Discovery

We map the process, data and exceptions with process owners.

Design

Target flow, business rules, approval thresholds.

Build

Agents, robots and integrations in your environment.

Validate

Tests on real cases, exception handling.

Go-live

Controlled rollout with human oversight.

Optimise

Monitoring, reporting and continuous improvement.

Duration depends on the number of systems and rules; a single process usually takes a few weeks.

Risk and controls

Autonomy under control

  • On-the-fly repairs touch the interface only; business logic stays untouched
  • Every permanent change engineer-approved and versioned
  • A full repair history in Orchestrator
  • Critical processes with a guaranteed response time

Why now

  • Every next system update is the same week of firefighting
  • The portfolio grows while the knowledge walks out with people
  • Healing Agent changed maintenance economics; legacy AMS contracts do not reflect that

Why this matters to:

CIO

The automation portfolio stops being a black box left by past vendors.

COO

Invoicing, payroll and logistics stop stalling after every system change.

CFO

Maintenance at a predictable rate, with fewer unplanned failure costs.

Questions we usually hear

“Another vendor built our robots.”

We often take over portfolios from other vendors: audit, stabilisation, documentation. After a quarter the portfolio is documented and jointly maintained.

“Healing Agent will break the process logic.”

It repairs only selectors in the interface layer and leaves rules unchanged. Permanent changes still need an engineer's approval.

“We have our own RPA team.”

Then your team can build new automations while we take on-call duty, monitoring and repairs.

When this may not be the right solution

  • A portfolio of a few simple robots: good documentation is enough
  • Robots slated for retirement this year: do not invest in maintaining them
  • No Orchestrator / central management: platform foundations first

A question for your next board meeting

Which critical process will stall at the next SAP update, and who finds out first: you or your customer?

How many critical processes hang on robots nobody is watching?

A free review: we will read your Orchestrator logs and show where the portfolio is fragile.

Request a robot-stability review

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