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Streaming Data and Event Infrastructure
Cost Management
Business must control their capital and variable costs. This means how the most can be
achieved from available assets and prolonging the lifetime of equipment and facilities. What
facilities are operating better and which ones have room for improvement and where and when
to invest in new facilities and equipment. All of these require access to data and operational
statistics. There are also the large variable costs of energy and water and how the process of
using both can be controlled and optimized. The use of raw materials and the recycle and
repurpose of waste material for financial gain require process optimization and innovative
solutions.
Businesses continue to look to acquire and divest as required by the changing marketplace and
global needs of operations. The data associated with these facilities must be easily integrated
into the corporation or separated. This requires a flexible data infrastructure that easily
integrates with existing systems.
Sustainability
Today’s corporation’s actions are more visible and they are being held to a new standard of
corporate citizenship by customers and governments. This means compliance with regulations
for health, safety and the environment. Data supporting the corporate result is required to
become more visible and timely. In some industries the carbon footprint must be associated
with finished products and customers are making buying decisions based on the data.
Sustainability requires operations to save energy, optimize raw material resources and manage
water use while minimizing waste production. Communication of corporate status on
sustainability is becoming a more frequent activity and needs will be changing to operate for
sustainability rather than just reporting after the fact. To move to sustainable operations data
will be required in real-time to allow for actions to maintain sustainability objectives.
Manufacturing and Operations
Manufacturing is required to produce a high quality product at the lowest cost while complying
with environment and legal requirements. There is the need to plan production across the
whole manufacturing space while operating an individual facility at its optimum conditions.
This requires accurate, timely information to be shared across facilities while optimizing and
responding to operational demands within a facility. Data must be readily available and shared.
Assets must be controlled, maintained and serviced to meet the demands of production while
assuring the lifetime of the asset.
There is the need to cost effectively increase production will maintaining operational integrity.
Often new demands in flexible manufacturing must be met to respond to changing product and
global market demands.
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