Article reference matching, enabler of a manufacturer data strategy
In Manufacturing and Retail, the products are the major assets whether they are designed, produced, bought or sold. In the typical product lifecycle, product related data are produced all along the lifecycle. Data can be design documents, manufacturing data, quality data, product sheets, ERP supplier data or customer data. The usage and end of life also produce maintenance. All these data can be structured or unstructured contents. The digital Thread aims at providing a unified view of this lifecycle in order to improve efficiency, quality and/or reduce risks. An Operational Datahub is a key component to enable this vision as it provides a convergent (Operational and Analytical), contextual (leveraging semantics) and data-centric solution to consolidate and consume all these data in real-time. All this being highly secured and cost-effective. Datahub strategy provides quick wins use cases which can be : Find nearest available stock whatever the unit is storing it Find ...