Spotfire Analytics in Manufacturing

Data everywhere: Factories generate a huge volume and variety of data. Everywhere in your operation, information about quality parameters, process trends, maintenance events, parts and spares, material inventory and more is flowing into manufacturing and business systems, and doing so at an ever-increasing rate.

Data in, but not out: Gaining insight from the data trapped in these systems would certainly improve your business. The problem is, manufacturing systems are much better at collecting data than they are at helping you to understand it.

Part of the problem: In fact, most of these systems actually make it harder to get data out, harder to understand it and harder to take action on it. Typically, the more manufacturing and business systems you have, the more difficult it is for your operation to make changes or troubleshoot complex problems.

Changing the Game: Spotfire will help you to change this game entirely, by helping to change your organization from being reactive and report driven to proactive and real-time. Here"s how it works:

• Instant Insight - Spotfire delivers exploratory data analysis that is more interactive and more visual than any other product available in the industry today. Data from any source is one click away, and combining/correlating data across sources is unbelievably fast and easy.
  
  
• Right for the Job – Spotfire automatically configures itself to any data you open. Furthermore, simply by analyzing data, users create process specific applications that can be re-used, shared with others, automated or published to live web apps with a click of the mouse.
  
  
• Real-time, Event Driven – Spotfire can monitor your process KPIs in real-time and respond to variations by automatically populating root-cause applications with relevant data from multiple sources. Reports help you see problems, Spotfire helps you solve problems.
  
  
• Closed Loop – If the variation is not from a special cause, but instead a process change, users can re-compute and validate thousands of new KPI thresholds immediately, using the live data as a context. The new metrics can then be hot-loaded, so that they are effective instantly.

Spotfire helps you understand your operation better and continuously manage your processes to meet the needs of your business. Take a look at just a few of the application areas below.

Factory Productivity – Use Spotfire to slice and dice your production inventory by any variable, drill and aggregate metrics like throughput and cycle time from months to milliseconds, and get detailed WIP data on-demand from any related source.

Asset Management – Use Spotfire to improve the effectiveness and timeliness of your internal or contracted maintenance resources, right-size spending on parts and spares, and speed equipment qualification and troubleshooting.

Product Quality and Characterization – Use Spotfire to generate and manage specifications for new products, correlate product performance to metrology and process variables, and perform fast root cause analysis for quality and reliability issues.

Process Effectiveness – Develop new processes that ensure the best performance from expensive equipment, monitor process capability in real-time, and automate first-line analysis to minimize the time to root cause sourcing.