Articles and insights
Ideas on data, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation for organizations looking to turn their information into strategic decisions.
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Monitoring data analytics has an unfilled gap in the region
A large share of organizations in Latin America still fail to put the data from their monitoring networks to work, and that gap is an opportunity.
The sensor vendor and the data analyst do different jobs
Installing the sensors and analyzing what they measure are two distinct disciplines, and understanding the difference clarifies where the gap lies.
Operating margin lost to consumption outside its optimal point
Part of the spending on energy and resources happens outside the optimal point, dissolves into total cost, and lingers as an invisible margin.
Regulatory compliance, when reporting eats more hours than it should
Regulated organizations spend thousands of hours proving they comply, and much of that effort is manual work on data that is already captured.
Carbon footprint measured by hand while the operation already generates the data
Many organizations calculate their environmental footprint with estimates, while their operation already generates the data that would let them measure it precisely.
Unplanned downtime, the cost the data was already flagging
Unplanned downtime is one of the highest costs in industrial operations, and the signal that anticipates it is usually already in the data.
Why monitoring data still goes to waste
Underused data is not an oversight; it is a problem that persists for three structural reasons.
The five ways monitoring data gets left behind
Underused data is not a single problem; it is five distinct ways information gets stuck between the sensor and the decision.
Latin America analyzes less than 5% of the data it captures
Digital transformation is advancing in the region, and most of the data still fails to become a decision.
Dark data, the half of your organization's information that never gets used
Organizations capture sensor data continuously, and most of it is never looked at again. The industry has a name for it.