Worldwide demand for energy escalates every year, and the consumption of fossil fuels continues to increase despite the growing supply of alternative energy options. Globally, about 81 percent of energy comes from a finite supply of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas. Fossil fuels are used to heat homes, run vehicles, power industry and manufacturing, and provide electricity.
All manufacturing industries need good control and good overview of their production processes. As already discussed in a previous blog post, SIMCA-online enables you to apply advanced multivariate data analytics in real time to monitor your production processes, for example to make sure that your production process is behaving as it should or that the quality is what it should be.
In manufacturing and other industries that have complex processes, knowing which variables have the most impact on quality and at what point, or knowing which combination of variables to change in order to improve your process, can have a huge impact on the overall quality or profitability of your manufacturing process. But without making expensive and time-consuming changes in the physical processes in order to test all possible scenarios, how can you identify and predict the variables that have the most significant impact on your outputs?
