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We are participating in the SAS Manufacturing Executive Forum, which will be held at the SAS Campus in Cary, NC. On Wednesday, August 8th, we will present a breakout session entitled, "Use Analytics to Redefine your Approach to Safety." We…
First Analytics will join up with our client, the Kellogg Company, in conducting a presentation followed by question and answer panel at the IndustryWeek Manufacturing and Technology Conference & Expo. The presentation falls within the Manufacturing Technology Strategies track, which…
If you have a smart factory initiative you likely use sensor data from a historian system like PI from OSISoft. Using that data in a predictive sense can help improve OEE (overall equipment effectiveness: availability; performance; quality). The classic examples…
For the fourth year in a row, First Analytics will sponsor SAS Global Forum. Please visit us at booth 14 in the Quad. We'd love to talk to you about how you can better utilize SAS in your organization. We support various solutions…
Nearly all applications related to sensor and machine data aim to improve operational efficiency. For example in manufacturing plants, understanding what contributes to unscheduled downtime, and thus productivity, is a prevalent use case. Factors impacting quality and reducing scrap product…
First Analytics was a sponsor of the recent Analytics Experience conference, hosted by SAS. Some of our activities there are described in this news post. Our chairman, Tom Davenport, recently published a ten-year update to the book that is credited with…
The sharing of techniques and methodologies across industries can produce advances in successful applications, not only for the practice of analytics as a whole, but for individual firms. Practitioners in the areas of marketing and supply chain analytics, for example,…
This is the time of year when many people are taking vacations. Be careful! Did you know that some workplace safety incidents can be tied to employees returning to work from their vacation? Well, this is true at times, but…
First Analytics is a sponsor and active participant in the upcoming SAS Analytics Experience 2017. Please stop by our booth in the innovation hub to say "hello'. Additionally we invite you to attend some sessions that we will be involved…
Companies use forecasting methods to plan for future demand using time series data. Often, these time series can be represented in a hierarchy. For example, products can be broken down to different levels of sales data. Figure 1 shows an…