Data Analytics for Manufacturing Systems – A Data-Driven Approach for Process Optimization

In the course of digitalization many small and medium-sized companies face the challenge of using the existing database for process optimization in manufacturing. Furthermore, the demand-oriented expansion of the database is a great challenge. A lack of competencies, limited financial resources and historically grown data structures, which show a strong heterogeneity and lack of transparency, are the central obstacles. A specific approach, how data analytics projects for process optimization should be carried out in manufacturing, is presented. In particular, the question which sensors should be implemented to expand the database is answered. The approach is applied exemplarily for a manufacturing line.