Combine all of your company data in one data cloud
Manufacturers often face the challenge of disparate systems housing data from various areas of the company. While an ERP system, for instance, can provide insights into financial matters, procurement, and warehouse management, it’s not designed to cover all aspects related to the production floor. Are there bottlenecks in manufacturing? Are machines operating optimally? Answers to such questions lie within IoT solutions like PTC Thingworx or our own 9A Connected Factory and Insights, a kickstart IoT solution to quickly get the machines on your shopfloor connected and start getting insights.
With 9A Data Cloud for Manufacturing, an extension to our well known and widely used BI solution 9A Smart Insights, built on top of Microsoft Fabric - you can combine data from both your IT and OT systems, gaining a comprehensive overview of your manufacturing operations. This enables you to analyze all processes within your company, empowering informed decision-making at every level.
The benefit of 9A Data Cloud for Manufacturing
By combining data from different areas in your manufacturing company, you can get one full overview that can help you make data-driven decisions.
Get dashboards that show you what is really happening in your manufacturing company - e.g. monitoring consumption of material and consumption of energy.
By gathering the right data in 9A Data Cloud for Manufacturing, you get access to a whole new world of instant insights in your company.
Bring IT and OT data together and enable detailed process mining
When your production order begins and ends, you can track that in your
ERP system. However, to gain deeper insights such as machine activity, start
and stop times, bottlenecks, errors, or scrap produced, you typically need to
measure and monitor these specific metrics separately, e.g. through IoT
implemented on your shop floor. This gives you different sources of
information, but no insights in how the two are connected and influence each
other.
By combining data from your business applications (IT) with your operational data (OT) you can get one single overview of your organization. This complete picture, offers detailed information on e.g. your manufacturing processes, which can be analyzed with process mining.
Get Power BI dashboards that makes a difference for your manufacturing company
Powered by the robust BI tool 9A Smart Insights, 9A Data Cloud for Manufacturing offers an out-of-the-box content package with relevant dashboards and provides you with the capability to effortlessly create your own dashboards.
Moreover, you will have the ability to delve deeper into relevant findings. This allows you to understand not just what is happening, but also why it is happening.
Get real time production insight
By combining IT and OT data into the 9A Data Cloud for Manufacturing, you get multiple options for analyzing your data; you can leverage Process Mining, get powerful Power BI dashboards, utilize machine learning (ML), all the while being assisted by productivity enhancing tools such as Copilot for help in the process.
