14 Case Studies of Manufacturing Analytics in 2024

Updated on Jan 10

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What are the top use cases of manufacturing analytics?What are some interesting case studies of manufacturing analytics?

Manufacturing is one of the top 3 industries which account for the biggest share of the big data and analytics revenues worldwide. Manufacturing analytics have numerous use cases which enable businesses to predict machinery’s future use, prevent failures, forecast maintenance requirements, and identify areas for enhancement.

We’ve compiled 14 success stories and case studies of deploying manufacturing analytics to help businesses identify areas for implementation.

What are the top use cases of manufacturing analytics?

Manufacturing data including machine and operator information can be processed and analyzed for:

Supply chain:
- Demand forecasting
- Inventory / asset management
- Order management
- Maintenance optimization
- Risk management
Logistics:
- Automation and robotics
- Transportation allocation
Product development:
- Product progress measurement
- End user experience estimation
Sales:
- Price optimization

To explore use cases in more detail, feel free to read our guide to the top 10 manufacturing analytics use cases.

What are some interesting case studies of manufacturing analytics?

Below is a list of case studies that we’ve compiled from different vendors and research resources:

Vendor	Customer	Country	Industry	Use Case	Results
PTC	SIG	Switzerland	Packaging & Containers	Asset management & optimization	- Discovered micro-outages that hadn’t been tracked due to manual recording processes. - Identified overconsumption of energy by certain machines. - Increased speed of production line.
PTC	Colfax	USA	Mechanical & Industrial Engineering	- Predictive maintenance - Asset management	- Reduced service costs through remote monitoring and predictive maintenance of equipment. - Detect patterns and anomalies in applications. - Increased asset utilization
Rockwell Automation	National Engineering Industries Limited (NEI)	India	Brownfield Factory	- Predictive maintenance - Risk management	- Increased visibility into line, shop floor, plant and enterprise performance. - Created a connected smart plant with integrated information from supply chain for factory scheduling, energy management system, resource allocation and material visibility. - Avoided unplanned breakdown by taking proactive actions.
Rockwell Automation	-	USA	Polymer & Coating Materials	- Asset management - Product development	- 12% increase in production. - 6% reduction in natural gas use/ton. - 50% decrease in process variability.
SAS	Kia Motors	USA	Automotives	- Asset management - Product development - Predictive maintenance - End user experience estimation	- Forecasted failure rates and maintenance costs. - Reduced production time. - Categorized and extracted complaint types from customer surveys to uncover quality issues. - Proactively alerted dealers to future maintenance issues to help them optimize repairs.
SAS	Siemens Healthineers	Germany	Medical Technology	- Predictive maintenance	- Predict product failure probabilities. - 36% less system downtime. - Optimized service technician deployment, because they know in advance which parts are needed at a particular location.
Konux	Deutsche Bahn	Germany	Railway Infrastructure	- Asset management - Predictive maintenance	- Reduce 25% of maintenance costs. - Reduce delay-causing failures.
Sight Machine	-	-	Paper Manufacturing	- Predictive maintenance - Asset management	- Identify hidden relationships between production parameters and quality issues. - Create a digital twin of the production process
Sight Machine	-	-	Automotives	- Asset management - Risk management	- Built manufacturing data models. - Implemented Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to identify the real source of the quality issue.
Sight Machine	-	-	Industrial Manufacturing	- Asset management	- Identified $500K of potential saving costs in 3 weeks. - Reduce scrap costs by 30%.
Augury	-	-	Infant Formula Manufacturing	- Preventive maintenance - Inventory management - Automation	- Detected $350K worth of system errors. - Identified opportunity for automating reliability practices. - Early detection of fan malfunction which enabled the team to order parts without accruing expedited shipment costs.
FogHorn	-	China	EV Charger Manufacturing	- Predictive maintenance - Asset management	- Reduced false positive alerts generated by chargers. - Anticipated maintenance needs
Mu Sigma	-	USA	Food Manufacturing	- Price optimization	- Identified stores that had the potential to increase price of a product up to $0.25 from its closest competitor without impacting sales. - Increase revenue by 2-3%.
Mu Sigma	-	-	Energy	- Inventory management	- Optimized excess inventory and was projected to save $15M-$20M annually.

To explore manufacturing analytics vendor landscape, scroll down our comprehensive list of manufacturing analytics software and vendors.

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