Intelligent Technologies to Enable Business
In many respects, technology has further complicated the business of process manufacturing. Obviously, many gains have been realized by applying new technologies that monitor or analyze data, and data is critical to business.
The problem is that today EVERYTHING generates data and this data needs to be correlated with other data to become vital operating information. Often, it is analysts and engineers who have to pore over spreadsheets to manually enter disparate values to derive meaning from them.
This paper is a clarification of the process manufacturing business. It is a framework for success that addresses the common opportunities shared by all industries. It identifies the business-process impediments that can be solved and the current technologies that work to improve and maintain all aspects of production.