For many manufacturing companies today, the promise of fully optimized, data-driven production looms continually out of reach. Managers might know, on some level, that data—properly synthesized and harnessed—can generate massive change. They know, certainly, that they’re producing reams of it every second of every day. And yet, the data revolution in manufacturing continues to be distributed unevenly. Some companies have managed to make the most of it, boosting productivity and profits in the process, while others have lagged behind, wondering, all the while, what the secret is.
