Development of a cross-company traceability platform

In order to analyse the causes of complaints more efficiently and to make better use of cross-organisational process data, adesso supported a company in the steel industry in developing a central data analytics platform. The challenge was to overcome data silos, harmonise different standards and scale an existing prototype into a sustainable business application.

adesso combined its expertise in manufacturing, data analytics and cloud technologies to develop an MVP for a specific use case and create long-term solutions for data collection, integration and analysis. A customised solution design was used to create the basis for cross-organisational traceability and sustainable data integration.

• Difficult-to-analyse causes of complaints
• High level of vertical integration from raw material to wire, spread across four separate organisations
• Process data is collected but remains in local databases (silos)
• Cross-organisational analyses are only feasible with a great deal of personnel effort
• Lack of standards for data governance complicates data integration
• The next step from prototype to scalable business application with short project duration
• Missing operating concept for a central data analytics platform

• Analysis of existing production and process data
• Analysis of business requirements and technical prerequisites, taking into account the framework conditions: cloud-first strategy of the group with Microsoft as the preferred platform provider
• Review of the prototype concept
• Integration of business and technical stakeholders in the design process
• Development of an MVP for a specific use case

• adesso combines manufacturing, data analytics and cloud expertise to analyse the customer's situation
• Solution design based on the objectives, an existing prototype and state-of-the-art technologies
• Selecting the technical solution, taking into account the resources required for operation in the long term and the company's objectives
• adesso has extensive experience in designing and building data platforms with a wide range of technology stacks
• Creating cross-company product traceability
• Solution design for data collection, integration and analysis