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form is built, we’re going deeper into analysis. We’ve recently added root cause analytics and the ability to continuously relate any production parameter to any outcomes of inter- est—basically the ability to continuously regress everything in the plant against everything else. This is the foundation for anomaly detection and advanced predictive modeling. We’ve also built real-time alerts for situations where process drifts, and we’re developing materials management tools that use production data to help reduce waste and improve sustain- ability. More is on the way. ME: Big Data and the IIoT are getting a huge amount of hype. How will they help manufacturers over time? Sobel: IIoT and Big Data are buzzwords for sure—but the underlying notion could not be more simple. Information is valuable. If you can know more about how to design, build and support your products, you are going to have an edge. Going digital helps companies run their businesses better, improve relationships with customers, and innovate faster. This is real.
ME: How does your software integrate/analyze data that you’ve gathered from the plant floor from PLCs, sensors and IoT-enabled devices? Sobel: Since many factory data sources work off of com-
mon protocols [Modbus, OPC, Profinet, etc.], we are able to reuse and scale this library. Our solution uses Linux, Spark, Python, R, and leading front-end Web technologies to move data into a modern data store and then analyze and pres- ent that data through Web services. We also work with data residing on data historians.
Sight Machine uses both local and cloud computing
resources and can work with private or public clouds. This is a different approach from traditional software; we’re a Web company. One symbolic way to think about this is what would it be like to have Google for your factory: it’s one thing to query a database, it’s another to have deep intelligence that’s relating and surfacing the data for you in useful, relevant ways. Because this is fundamentally a data solution, not some sort of legacy software, it is highly compatible with existing systems
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