With the pressure on manufacturing stay proactive with automated alerts and updates companies to improve productivity, profitability and innovation in a global pandemic – making sure that data assets are safe and accessible is among the most important tasks for manufacturers to take on. Michael Watson, from Microsoft and Martin Boyd, from Profisee will talk about the steps you can follow to establish the foundation of data that will allow you to increase your agility and efficiency.

If manufacturing is to evolve into more efficient and digital enterprise, it needs to embrace and harness data. But how do you achieve this if the data you’re relying on is insufficient, inconsistent, or incomplete? A successful data strategy for manufacturing should be based on solid governance. This will ensure that the information is stored, accessed and accessed in a timely fashion.

In a growing number of cases, the top performers in the manufacturing industry are adopting a more holistic approach to managing data that includes implementing an MDM hub to consolidate vendor, customer products, and other important information into a single repository. This allows teams to quickly access the information they require and makes it easy for them to work together.

This allows manufacturers to build a digital trail of what happens to the parts during the production. This is essential for identifying issues in production as well as optimizing processes and tests. It allows you to pinpoint what went wrong during an individual production run and why. This helps you react faster in a crises and become more resilient.