Adopting a smart data mindset in a world of big data

Industrial companies are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) as part of the fourth digital revolution.¹ AI leverages big data; it promises new insights that derive from applying machine learning to datasets with more variables, longer timescales, and higher granularity than ever. Using months or even years’ worth of information, analytics models can tease out efficient operating regimes based on controllable variables, such as pump speed, or disturbance variables, such as weather. These insights can be embedded into existing control systems,...