Manufacturing is an incredibly diverse sector, and it would make sense if not all could expect to benefit equally from a given trend. Big Data – the availability of diverse amounts of information from internal and external processes – is set to drive innovation and profits within the manufacturing sector. But are all factories set up to gain from it?
Alessandro Chimera, Director of Digitalisation Strategy at data analytics and management software vendor Tibco, cautions that data-driven transformation requires planning, a statistical model and a methodology. It all also takes time: “things need to fail” in order to acquire enough accurate data from which to draw useful conclusions. “Sometimes customers want to jump into predictive…
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