5G Enabled Manufacturing Evaluation for Data-Driven Decision-Making

Paper in proceeding, 2018

Manufacturing industries are experiencing a technical paradigm shift that will change how they run their operations. Equipment and personnel generate an ever-increasing amount of data, and connectivity enables to utilize data to a larger extent. Connecting a machine is not a technical obstacle anymore, but with all available data, the challenge is to understand the requirements of data to support efficient decision-making. This paper will address the requirements of data by domain experts, in the context of more real-time data available. A focus group interview was performed, assessing the key factors of big data; volume, velocity, and variety of data.