Week of March 16-22, 2007
Reprinted for web use with permission from the Houston Business Journal. ©2007, all rights reserved. Reprinted by Scoop ReprintSource 1-800-767-3263.
There can be too much of a good thing, even
technology.
Technological advances...
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Week of March 16-22, 2007
Reprinted for web use with permission from the Houston Business Journal. ©2007, all rights reserved. Reprinted by Scoop ReprintSource 1-800-767-3263.
There can be too much of a good thing, even
technology.
Technological advances have made it possible
for vast volumes of data to be captured on a daily
basis in process manufacturing facilities. As a result, more data than the typical core facility engineering team can possibly analyze is cap-tured.
This data is rarely converted to information and,
even less so, to actionable knowledge that improves performance and proitability.
Plant operating staff and technical support staff
are drowning in a sea of data that they do not have
the time and tools to analyze.
At the same time, every department and work
process must ind new opportunities to reduce
costs. These opportunities are hidden in the deluge of data and must be discovered by technical
experts, but the discovery of these cost-reduction
secrets usually means
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