{"id":1114,"date":"2018-05-30T08:56:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T01:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simenteknindo.com\/news\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2018-05-30T08:56:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T01:56:39","slug":"data-management-is-not-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simenteknindo.com\/news\/data-management-is-not-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Management Is Not the Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

A conversation with Michael Risse of Seeq helps explain why the problem for many in industry is not in managing all their data, but in getting the insights out of the data to transform their business.<\/p>\n

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Data. Whether you talking about the Industrial Internet of Things, Industrie 4.0, Smart Manufacturing or Digital Manufacturing, data is at the core. None of these industrial initiatives happen without historical and ongoing sources of data collection. And the good news is, as a manufacturer or processor, you\u2019re are loaded with data. In many cases, decades of data.<\/p>\n

But how do you do anything with it? There\u2019s the rub. When it comes to deriving insights from the all the data you have, most manufacturers probably feel like Coleridge\u2019s ancient mariner\u2014water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.<\/p>\n

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This is such a critical issue because, for good data analysis to take place with any of the multitude of software options on the market today, \u201chistorical data must meet exceptionally broad and high quality standards,\u201d said Thomas C. Redman, president ofData Quality Solutions, in his Harvard Business Review article \u201cIf Your Data Is Bad, Your Machine Learning Tools Are Useless.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his article, Redman says, \u201cReasons [for poor quality] range from data creators not understanding what is expected, to poorly calibrated measurement gear, to overly complex processes, to human error.\u201d To compensate for this, data scientists must cleanse the data, but doing so neither detects nor corrects all the errors. Even having done a good job of cleaning the data, \u201citcan still be compromised by bad data going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result, all of this effort just to prepare data for machine learning or analysis often \u201csubverts the hoped-for productivity gains,\u201d said Redman.<\/p>\n

While attending the OSIsoft User Conference in San Francisco this spring, I spoke with Michael Risse, chief marketing officer at Seeq, a supplier of process data analytics software. Seeq bills itself as a company whose data analytics technology is \u201cintuitive\u201d and \u201cvisual\u201d and \u201callows users to search their data, add context, cleanse, model, find patterns, establish boundaries, monitor assets, collaborate in real time, and interact with timeseries data like never before.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Redman\u2019s points in mind, I asked Risse what, based on his experience with users across the batch and continuous process industries, are the most common data management issues users have to address to begin reaping the business benefits of data analytics?<\/p>\n

\u201cData management\u2014and I am being specific here\u2014is not the issue,\u201d said Risse. \u201cFor example, many of our customers have OSIsoft PI and their data is well managed, secured and collected. The industry is awash with data that\u2019s well managed, it\u2019s getting the insights out of the well-managed data that is the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

What I wanted to learn from Risse in discussions following the conference was how Seeq helps its users prepare data for analysis. Considering the issues raised by Redman, this is the critical bridge that must be crossed, not just with historical data\u2014but with the aggregation of all data moving forward, before any useful analysis can be performed.<\/p>\n

\u201cPreparing data takes a number of steps,\u201d said Risse. \u201cEach step in the preparation process is a feature in Seeq.\u201d These steps and features, according to Risse, are as follows:<\/p>\n

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  • Connecting to the data sources. <\/strong>\u201cThis can be harder than it sounds because it often requires dealing with unlike data types and proprietary interfaces,\u201d said Risse. (See the Multi-Historian diagram above for an example of how Seeq incorporates multiple historian sources of data.)<\/li>\n
  • Deal properly with time series data.<\/strong> Risse noted here that he is specifically referencing issues \u201cwith aligning time series data coming from different sources, data with different sample rates, and converting or managing units of measure (metric, English, \/sec or \/hour, etc).<\/li>\n
  • Data cleansing.<\/strong> To get the data right, Risse said outliers have to be removed, gaps in the data have to be fixed and \u201cdata smoothing\u201d may need to be done if the data is noisy.\u201cThere’s a lot that goes into this,\u201d he said, while clarifying that, in these data cleansing processes, Seeq does not change the source data in the process.<\/li>\n
  • Soft sensor creation.<\/strong> \u201cPrior to data analysis, calculations may be required to create \u2018soft sensors,\u2019\u201d said Risse. A \u201csoft sensor\u201d refers to software where several measurements are processed together for use in calculating new quantities that need to be measured. As an example, Risse said that three signals can be used to calculate an outcome that will be used in the analysis, such as an average, derivative, addition, conversion, etc.<\/li>\n
  • Other steps.<\/strong> Considering Redman\u2019s points above, preparing data properly for analysis cannot be entirely addressed by points\u2014no matter how critical\u2014that can be counted on one hand. Other steps that may be necessary to properly prepare your data include \u201creal time collaboration with peers, documenting the preparation work, or focusing the data on particular asset modes or other criteria so that the analysis is centered on a specific issue and only uses that part of the data,\u201d said Risse. As an example of how Seeq focuses on specific issues or parts of the data, the software\u2019s \u201ccapsules\u201d are a feature which, according to the company, \u201crepresent a defined slice of time, or a time period of interest.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Though Seeq claims it makes the data analysis process relatively simple for users, the toughest part for users may be in assessing all the suppliers in the market. Even Risse admits that \u201cthere are a lot of data analytics solutions available and incredible innovation occurring in the industry.\u201d Which explains why Seeq is focused on working with time series\/process data. \u201cSeeq is focused on a narrow range of applicability\u2014only for process data,\u201d said Risse. \u201cThis makes it easy to use. By contrast, a general purpose tool for IT data sources can often work with other types of data (e.g., process, financial, retail, etc.), but not with time series data.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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