SAS partnership with AMRC will drive manufacturing innovation HG Insights

Tech Intelligence Bulletin (HG Insights) – SAS has become a tier one partner with the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), a network of world-leading research and innovation centers working with manufacturing companies of all sizes from around the globe. The parties will work together to identify specific pain areas in the manufacturing industry and seek to solve those business problems using SAS software, and methods and principles of advanced analytics. The AMRC aims to transform industrial and economic performance by making step changes in productivity, increasing competitiveness, developing new products and processes and training new talent and skills. It is made up of more than 125 member organizations, ranging from global giants to SMEs offering specialist equipment and services. Like other industries, manufacturing is seeing a drive towards digital transformation, thanks to more and more data being generated more quickly than ever before, greater connectivity, greater compute power and the ability to extract actionable insights from this data using analytics.