The defining product of the digitalisation of manufacturing activities is data. Companies risk missing out on the opportunity to glean the maximum amount of information from their data and use it to drive their business towards becoming what SAP describe as an 'Intelligent Enterprise', a business whose activities are connected and transparent at every stage, from production to customer service.
The key to adopting these data-producing technologies – and profiting from them – is culture. The power of digital technologies to disrupt manufacturing is well accepted. Their ability to change production and market paradigms faster than has ever been experienced before has been likened to a storm blowing its way through industry. The only question…
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