Data Issues Archives

Reshaping the Production Line with Big Data Analytics

Dark data – this refers to the data collected from the shop floor that remains untouched or used to improve manufacturing output in any way. The average enterprise’s leaves 90% of its data sets untouched...

Spending on Data Tools Expected to Jumpstart the Manufacturing Industry Post-Pandemic

Getting the manufacturing industry to its pre-pandemic levels is one challenge majority of CIOs have to deal with as economies open up. On top of the challenges Covid-19 brings, stakeholders in the manufacturing industry must...

How Much Data Do I Need?

I have discussed data issues in several previous articles. People are often confused about how much data they really need. In particular, I frequently hear the refrain “Simulation requires so much data, but I don’t...

Data Collection Basics Part 2

Last week in Data Collection Basics (Part 1) I discussed data collection, introducing the topics of identifying required data and then locating or creating that data. Once you have some data, you typically need to...

Data Collection Basics

Even though the people responsible for building models are often the “data collection people,” I know very few associates who think this is a particularly enjoyable part of their job. But data collection is a...