BI for Industry: Data visualization and reporting 3-Mth PoC

The data visualization and reporting solution by filtering out irrelevant information from the raw data and presenting the relevant metrics allows you to focus on what's really important.

IoT powers industrial Business Intelligence by providing the necessary infrastructure and easy access to OT data, but it does not replace it.

Business challenges:

• Companies are siloed, so each factory collects, monitors, and analyzes data in its own way, making applying analytics on a global scale very difficult.
• Lack of company and process-wide reporting that can support decision-making processes
• Difficulty in detecting root-cause of plant lower performance based purely on OT data
• IoT solutions are focused on real-time data, whereas strategic business decisions require a holistic view of historical plant performance.

Reports obtained through a properly designed mechanism (with the use of AI and Machine Learning) of the bidirectional flow of information between the object level and superordinate management systems will bring the production process closer to the business world and, at the same time, will give the management a better view of what is happening on the production floor.

One of the key features of our offering is that it can leverage Azure Blob Storage which supports Azure Data Lake Storage as a dataflow for the PowerBI engine. During the data ingestion phases, it is a common theme that data is distributed between many IT systems within the organization, whereas for mature reporting and visualization, it is crucial that we have access to raw data aggregated in a single place. Thanks to Azure Data Factory (ADF), we can easily feed the storage with all the necessary data from any source on a regular basis, therefore obtaining access to real-time information that we can use natively in Power BI.

The average PoC duration is 2 - 3 months and include:

• 2 weeks for business analysis and a concept design
• 2-4 weeks to turn the concept into prototypes
• 2 weeks for UI/UX design and optimization
• 2-4 weeks for a user-ready solution

Benefits:

Business Intelligence - OT & IT data are aggregated from multiple sources and multiple factories in a single place, so they can be contextualized and analyzed efficiently to provide insights for strategic business decisions.

Historical data analysis and visualization - Focus on historical data, ability to dynamically generate on-demand reports for any timeframes that can provide high abstraction insights about the overall plant’s performance.

A holistic view of the whole organization - Potential to discover bottlenecks and root causes of production lines or whole factories by analyzing multidimensional data instead of focusing on pure machine’s signals.

High-level management data on business processes that can support decisions - Ability to easily aggregate data from multiple plants to analyze the performance of particular factories compared to different sites.

Integration and contextualization of OT data with IT systems - OT insights for operators and local factory management and oriented on real-time production KPIs

What can you gain thanks to Azure data analytics capabilities and our offer?

• Use of digital thread to transform how products are engineered, manufactured, and serviced
• Enabling full production efficiency by intelligent planning
• Increase workers productivity
• Predict machines malfunctions
• Improve Reliability with Remote Monitoring, Condition-Based Maintenance
• Get optimized planning and scheduling through the entire supply chain
• Monitor and improve product yield, productivity, and asset utilization
• Improve quality control
• Complex performance analysis of uptimes/downtimes, scrap rates, production performance, quality
• Full information about retooling insights, shift performance
• Improve ROI by analyzing raw materials’ usage, sales, profit, and losses in relation to manufacturing data

Technology we use:

• Power BI
• Azure AI
• Azure Machine Learning

Price is estimated, and additional costs like on-site setup, transport, and accommodation of our experts are not included.