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Richard Jeffers, Director of Industrial Digital Solutions for RS Components, offers practical advice on how manufacturing businesses can use data to perform predictive maintenance and head off problems before they occur
Big data is a well-recognised term and concept, with businesses now grasping the importance of its role in improving operations, providing competitive advantage and positively impacting profitability – and this is particularly pertinent in the industrial sphere. With the effective collation of disparate pieces of information about a problem, we can apply artificial intelligence and predict future trends. This concept certainly appears to be the nirvana of solving maintenance issues, providing total visibility of failures before they occur.