SOFTWARE UPDATE NEWS ABOUT DIGITAL MANUFACTURING TOOLS AND SOFTWARE Leveraging Digital Analysis for the IIoT, Big Data s
Manufacturing Engineering: Manufacturing systems are getting more connected than ever. Describe how your company’s analytics software helps shops leverage their plant-fl oor data. Jon Sobel: Manufacturing generates enor- mous amounts of digital data, but until now manufacturers have struggled to turn that data into useful insights. At fi rst glance, you might as- sume that data volume is the principal challenge. It’s not. The main issue is more subtle—it is the variety. Modern factories generate hundreds of data types: from sensors, PLCs, cameras, histo- rians, serialization, databases, and MES, SCADA and ERP. The data is often collected and stored, but until factories can overcome the variety prob- lem, it’s not useful.
How do you put this raw data into context to help improve operations and quality? That’s what Sight Machine does. People increasingly refer to IIoT [Industrial Internet of Things] and Big Data as being like the fi ve senses for industry: in the same way that sight, smell, and touch
help us as people make sense of a constantly changing, nu- anced world, the right digital technologies can help industry understand their operations with a level of rigor and speed that’s never before been possible. Sight Machine’s solution takes digital data of just about every type and continuously analyzes that data. There are four steps: we acquire the data from factory fl oor sources through connectors and adapters we’ve written; we then clean, condition and integrate the data into manufactur-
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AdvancedManufacturing.org | January 2016
Jon Sobel
CEO and Co-Founder Sight Machine Inc. San Francisco
www.sightmachine.com
A customized dashboard in Sight Machine’s process analytics software gives manufacturers key factory metrics including OEE on plant-fl oor performance.
ing models that enable meaningful analysis; we run the data through our analytics; and we visualize the results via Web pages available on any phone, tablet or laptop. This provides a real-time view into operations. Manufacturers are
“Sight Machine’s solution takes digital data of just about every type and continuously analyzes that data.”
using Sight Machine’s platform for a variety of applications including real-time monitoring of production and quality; retrospective analysis of product variation and failures; predictive analytics to support process improvement; and benchmarking on multiple levels—contractor, factory, line and tool. ME: What are some new features in your software? Sobel: We’ve spent four years building out a systematic way to integrate and analyze factory data; now that the plat-
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