How Big Data Analytics are Transforming Manufacturing - Inteliment Technologies

Call it Industrie 4.0 as the Germans, Smart Manufacturing as the Americans or Smart Factory as the Koreans, the manufacturing industry is witnessing a technological overhaul that is propelled by the power of data and analytics. Given that the manufacturing involves complex production activities, it is leveraging greater digitization, the adoption of connected systems, and implementation of sensors in various manufacturing processes to improve the production accuracy and quality of products. With the help of the huge volumes of data that these systems generate, the manufacturing sector is using machine learning techniques and big data analytics to develop predictive statistical models that can help them make smarter decisions, improve operational processes and increase profitability. But what essentially is Machine Learning and is it any different from big data analytics? By definition, Machine Learning is a method of data analysis that provides computers the ability to learn without explicit programming.