At the beginning of the year, I started at a large print shop where numerous types of projects came through our doors. There's this one client of ours who's project would take ~13 hours to complete--and that's just in our department which was file prepping.

I did this project by hand one or two times and then asked the manager to let me research the possibility of automating it. After a week or so of fiddling around, I was able to bring it down to 2h10m. Just in the past week, I was able to bring it down to 15m and reduce the number of steps where a human is needed.