Using Big Data Analytics To Improve Production by Rob Consoli via @MBTwebsite

Manufacturing remains a critically important part of the world’s economic engine, but the roles it plays in advanced and developing economies has shifted dramatically. In developing countries, manufacturing operations deliver unprecedented new employment opportunities that are transforming societies.

I definitely think that manufacturing is going to be improved greatly as soon as there is a larger use of IoT and the big data and analytics is covering far more of the manufacturing process. Hopefully the efficiencies can be vastly improved. Anything that can be automated is good - I remember having to take snapshots of data from a source system and importing it into a spreadsheet so I could use sheets, pivot tables, etc to work out where the largest delay was in the whole passage of orders from input to delivery to the customer - took hours and the benefit was reduced just because of the time to produce and timing.