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Analytics at the Edge Virtual Event Q&A

Thank you for your active participation in Analytics at the Edge Virtual Conference. As promised, here are the answers to the questions we did not get to during the LIVE event we hosted on November 16,…

Unplanned Downtime: Causes, Calculations, and Cures

What is downtime? ‘Downtime’ is one of the most dreaded words in manufacturing. While downtime is part of life in a factory, managers, operators, and technicians constantly strive to reduce it and mitigate its effects. When…

The importance of Analytics for business

Knowing how to manage and process data, information, is an asset of the digital enterprise. That's why analytics tools are becoming increasingly important in the manufacturing sector. As highlighted by Gartner in one of its Magic…

Manufacturing Analytics: What it is and top use cases

With the arrival of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), a digital transformation is currently underway. The manufacturing industry is beginning to use industrial analytics driven by real-time production data, not only to…

Why Technology is Crucial For Sustainable Workplace Safety

The onset of COVID-19 has shined a stark spotlight on a previously complacent attitude to workplace health and safety. Amidst spiralling infection rates and provincial lockdowns, long-standing workplace safety procedures have been strained under the impact…

Deploying Analytics On The Shop Floor: How And Where To Start

Industrial Digital Transformation is happening, but the reality is that most companies are handling data on paper. To think about analytics on the shop floor, one of the first things to be done is to automate not only the…

[White paper] How to determine the economic value of your data

The importance of data has changed over the years. Initially, data was just the “exhaust” from an organization’s On-Line Transactional Process (OLTP) systems. However as the volume, variety and velocity of the data grew over the…

The role of Industrial Analytics in driving Manufacturing Transformations

As global competitive pressures have driven changes and higher expectations for manufacturing organizations, enterprise technology in manufacturing must respond at an accelerated pace today. Largely the result of fundamental changes enabled by transformative technologies, new and…

Critical Upgrade for Industry 4.0: Analytics That Matter

For the last fourteen years, LNS Research and its predecessors pub­lished bi-annual research in partnership with MESA Manufacturing on the use of data in manufacturing. Until 2018, the research was ti­tled, “Metrics That Matter.” Starting with…