A Data-Driven Approach to Driving Business Results

Behind every great business is great #data. But locating that data and making it usable for innovators across a company’s functional areas requires industrial software solutions built around data democratization.

In today’s hyper-competitive manufacturing environment, digitalizing operations to collect and contextualize data provides a competitive advantage that delivers insights, unifies and empowers cross-functional teams, drives results, scales them across the business and much more. It isn’t terribly difficult to aggregate data with technologies such as data lakes, but sharing data isn’t enough. To make data truly useful, you must make it easy to access and understand so any team in the enterprise with the right credentials can use it to foster innovation.

Companies relying on outdated systems and inefficient processes to collect and assess data are falling behind – and this is especially true for manufacturing companies whose operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) frontiers are becoming increasingly blurred and challenging to manage.

Data that’s old, noncontextualized or unable to be communicated across the enterprise in an instant is obsolete – providing little to no value to companies attempting to compete in today’s fast-paced business environment.

That’s why companies are embracing new technologies and protocols that equip all employees – not just OT or IT experts – with the data they need in real-time to drive the business forward. And at @Emerson, we do this through secure OT edge technologies to draw valuable, contextualized data from the DeltaV? distributed control system and move it seamlessly to the enterprise to be used in #analytics solutions such as the Plantweb Optics Platform.

Using modern architectures and protocols, such as Ethernet advanced physical layer and OPC UA, Emerson #software is creating a bridge between OT and IT, simplifying connectivity to the wide range of devices used in flexible manufacturing, and improving data flow.

Now more than ever, in this era of digital transformation, companies must tackle data management in a future-focused, holistic way. At Emerson, we help customers do just that by delivering solutions that enable cross-departmental, enterprise-wide digitalization and equip their teams with the necessary data to optimize operations and drive results – results that ripple across the business today and in the future.

Interested in learning more? Join us at our annual #EmersonExchange customer event from Oct. 24-28 in Grapevine, Texas.

We’ll talk about how we’re equipping customers to fuel their #digitaltransformation and drive even greater #innovation through the power of data. Register here.?