Improving Performance Using “Big Data”!, PaperCon 2013

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Over the last few decades, the Pulp and Paper Industry has invested in myriad process measurement and control systems in addition to various data collection and archiving systems. The result: BIG DATA! This paper describes how to use your manufacturing data to improve the performance of manufacturing assets.

Paper Industry Manufacturing data usually exists in various separate systems, with different indexing schemes and different sampling rates, to name just a few of the devilish details. The goal is to determine which few variables are responsible for your best past performance, and to use that knowledge to narrow the gaps between average and best-ever for key performance measures like productivity, energy use, formulation cost, quality et cetera. Paper industry management often focuses on external benchmarking, but this internal focus on repeating your own best past performance yields high value.