PA002
Centralise reusable bot components under formal asset governance to keep maintenance burden proportionate as automation coverage scales.
CyberTRIZ analysis · Process contradiction PA002 · one of 8,235 worked contradictions published by CyberTRIZ.AI
Regulations
Greater Automation Coverage vs. Lower Maintenance Burden
Business Context. Expanding RPA coverage across more processes increases automation value, but each additional bot adds to the total maintenance burden, eventually overwhelming the automation team's capacity.
Process TRIZ Resolution. Rather than treating every bot as a permanent, individually maintained asset, organizations should build bots from a shared, reusable component library so that fixing one component improves resilience across every bot that uses it.
Applicable TRIZ Principles
Principle 6 (Universality) builds bots from shared components that serve multiple automations.
Principle 33 (Homogeneity) keeps component interfaces consistent across bots to simplify maintenance.
Principle 2 (Taking Out) removes duplicated logic that would otherwise be maintained separately in each bot.
Expected Outcome
Broader automation coverage
Lower per-bot maintenance cost
Faster fixes propagated enterprise-wide
Sustainable automation scaling
Decision Indicators
Maintenance backlog grows faster than automation coverage.
The same defect is fixed independently in multiple bots.
Automation teams cannot keep pace with new automation requests.
Bots share no common components despite similar functions.
Coverage growth has stalled due to maintenance capacity limits.
If several of these indicators are present, the contradiction is likely active and the Process TRIZ resolution above should be evaluated.