Smart Manufacturing is Powering a Data Explosion, But the Path to Insights Isn’t Always Clear
Data generated by industrial smart machines holds tremendous untapped potential for boosting quality and improving productivity.
If you’re like many OEMs, you and your customers would agree with this statement. However, while the value is clear, the pathway to effectively capturing and utilizing that data is often murky. It’s sometimes assumed that manufacturers and other industrial end users need to have their entire data strategy figured out in order to reap value from their machine data. Adding to that pressure, the sheer volume of data alone can be hard to contend with, not to mention finding the right tools to sort it, process it, and transform it into information that’s easy to consume and useful for a variety of needs. It all amounts to a lot of extra complexity that adds substantial time and resources to an already heavy workload. Ultimately, end users are left trying to cut through the noise to distinguish what’s useful from what’s not.
This creates a tremendous opportunity for you to help end customers by delivering smart machines that address these data challenges. But there’s often a blocker: your customers know they want information from their machines, but they don’t always know exactly how they’re going to use it, leaving both parties at a stalemate for how to move forward with equipment design.
Luckily, that doesn’t need to be the end of the road. Rockwell Automation has intelligent solutions that empower OEMs to build smart machines with the data capabilities customers want.
