Factory BUILD

Transforming Plant Data to Accelerate Industrial AI

For data-driven manufacturers who need to optimize their facilities, Factory BUILD provides a real-time, contextualized data foundation on which they can build scalable data products.

A Manufacturing Data Platform that Delivers Scalable Results

In order to drive scalable business impact in manufacturing, shop floor data must be contextualized and standardized for a deeper understanding, leading to improved analysis and decision making. Factory BUILD creates the framework for data products that deliver actionable insights:

• A common data foundation with contextualized data is the most scalable approach to structuring data. Building bespoke applications tailored to address specific business needs or problems requires structuring data for each and every workload. This traditional method of building-from-scratch is time-intensive and becomes unscalable.

• Digital Twins combine advanced modeling with AI/machine learning to create a dynamic virtual representation of the entire plant. This gives you a holistic view of the multi-layered interdependencies across assets, lines, and processes, allowing you to take actionable insights.

• Templating is an easy-to-use interface that requires a simple update to tables. Reducing the burden on data engineers, data analysis can be democratized across the organization and amplify scalability.

Agile Decision Making Through Real-Time Data Streaming

Real-time data analytics plays a critical role in manufacturing by enabling effective decision making to predict and prevent downtime. By monitoring production in real time, rather than waiting until the end of a day to run a batch job, manufacturers can predict when maintenance or adjustments are needed, mitigating unexpected failures. 

• Real-time data streaming enables immediate action and faster decision making, which is crucial in manufacturing as downtime often leads to large revenue loss or even safety risk.

• Traditional data processing maintains separate pipelines for hot and cold data, which can lead to data redundancy and complicate overall data governance. Factory BUILD automatically blends data so that all data is a hot path, allowing you to analyze data in real time, rather than waiting to run a batch job at the end of the day.

• By automatically converting raw data into contextualized data that’s ready for analysis, the data pipeline also accommodates for late, missing, and out-of-order data in real time through Pipeline Builder, Sight Machine’s specialized ETL for manufacturing.