U.S, June 30 -- "In manufacturing, you're under pressure to continuously improve quality while reducing costs and increasing productivity," says analytics software and solutions leader SAS. This remains as true as ever in the digital age, and technological advances have conspired to tackle the challenge more effectively than ever before.
Even a cursory glance makes it plain that, of all the industries to be shaken up by digital transformation, few have been transformed more visibly and dramatically in recent years than manufacturing. This journey, from Henry Ford's workforce-intensive production lines to the increasingly people-free environments of modern factories, has been heavily accelerated by the advent of Big Data. Harvesting informa...