I remember how, on my first job in an aluminum plant, I once ran a SQL query against the legacy production database. About ten minutes later, my colleague receives a phone call from the oversees complaining that the process control...

SCADA is an acronym for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. In manufacturing, it’s the system that controls the machines and captures and stores process data (the level two layer in the automation stack).

At any manufacturing plant there’s both an OT (Operational Technology) and IT (Information Technology) team. OT is responsible for the physical assets of the production process like rolling mills. IT maintains the digital assets like data, hardware, software and the...

On June 28 and 29 I took part in the Sustainable Industrial Manufacturing conference in Brussels. Even though the discussions focused on sustainability, it was clear that data will play a fundamental role in this transition. It was reassuring to...

As datasets become larger and more complex, companies in the metallurgical industry are shifting from spreadsheet-based tools like Excel to code for their data analysis needs. If working in Excel can be compared to driving a car (most employees have...