Today’s industries flood their data collection and analysis processes with Excel spreadsheets. We have gone from accumulating sheets of paper to accumulating Excel sheets.
The transfer of information to Excel format has led us to believe in a false digitalization and to forget the right path to digital transformation.
Nowadays, the use and analysis of information has to be concrete, accurate and fast. Traditional digitization methods such as Excel or saving documentation in PDF format in folders on the server only take paper out of the industry, but do not make our analysis process more efficient or speed up decision making.
We have changed the data support format, but we are still not using it to its full potential, without making it profitable to improve our processes.
Why is proper digitization necessary?
The first step for a correct digitization is to observe our industrial process detecting critical points that we want to monitor.
“Digitizing for the sake of digitizing makes no sense if there is no prior observation of what is wanted or can be digitized.”
In the industry we have a multitude of information. The main concept of any analysis is to collect as much key data as possible to understand our process.
The information from the different sources is stored in a database in a structured and catalogued form, for subsequent mass processing.
The next step is to correlate the data and show the overall concise analysis of the information, with which we will be able to make decisions, without hindering the possibility of consulting the data source in real time.
The “last” step in digitization is to use intelligent analysis methods to detect possible deviations or defects before they occur.
“Implement corrective actions prior to the occurrence of the problem.”
The solution using Kapture.io
Kapture.io allows us to have information in real time with the analysis of the data at the moment, in order to make decisions immediately.
The platform allows us to digitize different data sources, audits, machine parameters, laboratory tests, controls, checklists, production sheets… Both in manual or Excel format and in automatic format, in an easy and customizable way to the requirements and needs of the customers.
Data stored and protected through technology BlockchainThe data stored and protected through Blockchain technology, in the cloud, is used directly for the creation of dashboards, graphs, KPIs, indicators… that help us understand the critical points to start improving.
The analysis engine in the BI Dashboard allows us to filter, group, separate and graph the information in the same space for a complete “360” visualization of the data.
In short, Excel is a double-edged sword, while “digitizing” the processes, we create separation between the data and the complete analysis of the problem in real time; increasing the space between the analysis and the detection and solution of incidents. Kapture.io allows us to extract from different sources and analyze immediately in order to dedicate time to what really adds value.
Digitization with Excel takes us halfway, but we do not win at the production level, the real gain is in having a logical and automatic interconnection between the different data sources of the production space to increase the detection of problems and detect them before they appear.
