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Opinion: Fueling the manufacturing revolution

SAS A-IOT empowers enterprises in making the best use of data, provides actionable intelligence in real-time, measures its impact, and most importantly makes continuous improvement, writes Nabuath Ulla Khan.

Opinion: Fueling the manufacturing revolution

As the world economy is plodding out of the clutches of pandemic, India is not only coming out faster but emerging with much stronger limbs. India has all the ingredients and is well poised to be one of the world’s large manufacturing hub.

In order to serve the world optimally, enterprises across the manufacturing fraternity are leveraging analytical and digital technologies to improve operational efficiencies and production quality across the manufacturing value chain.

The learning manufacturing sector has garnered since the onset of pandemic has composed the industry to evolve stronger, but is that enough as we march into the next wave of Manufacturing 2.0?

Today’s manufacturing leaders are pioneering increasingly efficient methods to produce and move physical goods while thinking beyond productivity, cost savings and risk reduction. Future survival will require manufacturers to become nimble, AI-driven organizations that minimize risk and seize opportunities through deep operational insights and confident decision making.

The Indian manufacturing industry has tremendous scope for digitization. At SAS, we believe the sector is getting oriented and optimized not for evolution, but a revolution!

Our goal is to make every enterprise in the manufacturing domain realize its revolutionary potential. We are committed to fueling our clients’ digital transformation endeavors that focus both on automation for continuous innovation and efficiency improvement.

SAS’s AIoT (Analytical Internet of Things) suite of solutions has a comprehensive set of capabilities to enable a successful digital transformation. 

Our role starts from making use of the data that is either stored in databases or is in transit from connected devices while ensuring the underlying data is thoroughly cleansed and made reliable before it gets consumed for any analysis or decisions making – Yes, all in real-time!

The energy we are witnessing from business leaders across the manufacturing fraternity and their zeal to revolutionize is positively contagious. We are fully committed to doing our bit to make our clients realize their potential for the revolution on the global stage.

For years, leading discrete and process manufacturers across the Americas & Europe rely on SAS for their analytical and digital endeavors. 

To cite an example, every day, millions of trucks transport fuel, produce, electronics and other essentials across highways. From farms and restaurants to retailers and hospitals, nearly every part of the economy relies on the efficient movement of freight to function. 

Unplanned downtime can exact a tremendous toll on fleet operators and their customers, who depend on timely deliveries. Operators can be out thousands of dollars a day when a truck with scheduled hauls unexpectedly breaks down. The impact on smaller regional owners can be even greater because they’re less likely than larger operators to have spare vehicles on hand.

A leading truck manufacturer has met this challenge with remote diagnostic and preventive maintenance services based on Internet of Things (IoT) technologies with analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) from SAS. With these solutions, the manufacturer can help its customers maximize a vehicle’s time on the road and minimize the costs of service disruptions by servicing connected vehicles more efficiently, accurately, and proactively. In addition to reducing diagnostic time by 70% and repair time by 25%.

We cross-pollinate our experience stemming from servicing a wide array of industries in a curated fashion to enable our clients to realize their digital transformation objectives with data and analytics. 

The period between 2022 and 2025 is going to be Carpe-diem years for the Indian manufacturing industry! Are you ready?

Nabuath Ulla Khan is the Practice Head – IoT Analytics at SAS India.

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