How to improve the production of aluminium sheets and foil using cloud based data analytics

This paper shows how Achenbach realises an approach towards production optimisation based on performance indicators. The approach needs only minimal modifications in the field networks in order to establish connectivity and to increase the security level of the field network. By transferring raw data from various relevant field systems into a cloud based data warehouse the efforts for information retrieval and administration are kept low. Once available in the cloud environment, a broad range of modern ML and analytic algorithms can be applied to the data in order to create smart information. The quality of the information is increased systematically by correlating data from different sources. Providing the information worldwide in ‘almost real time’ helps the customer to take faster and better business decisions on an improved informational basis.