Data Visualisation and Decision Making in the Manufacturing Sector: How Data Visualisation is key to Connected Factories

Manufacturers have a complex value chain, from the raw material itself and how to manage any supply constraints through to the complex production processes themselves. And whilst the product itself is usually core to a manufacturing business and remains the focus of any data being collated, the use of data and analytics throughout the value chain can lead to significant benefits in terms of cost reduction, machine usage and maintenance, scheduling and logistics, even sales forecasting.

As these production systems becoming increasingly intelligently automated through the drive for digitalisation, it is also important to remember that human skills will continue to remain essential for many tasks through the production process, making the marriage between humans and machines critical to success.

Data visualisation for effective decision-making becomes an essential element of the digitised manufacturing shop floor, as it will enable humans to work better and more effectively alongside the production process leading to the generation of efficiencies, the broadening of the scope of what the machinery can actually achieve and ultimately a boost in productivity by motivating workers through salient, useful and credible evidence based information. It can also have lasting impacts on the design process which in turn leads to other outcomes such as mass customisation and mass personalisation.

This workshop, organised by the University of Portsmouth Institute of Industrial Research, seeks to explore some of these challenges with industry presentations as well as presentations from the academic community and a panel session followed by lunch and poster/demo presentations.

Keynote Speaker : Professor Phillip Cartwright, Chairman of the Centre for Modelling & Simulation, Former CTO of the HVM Catapult

Other Speakers :

Professor Paul Watson, University of Newcastle

Dr David Grant, University of Strathclyde

Professor David Brown, University of Portsmouth

Happy Dudee, Valuechain

We still have some poster and demo slots available so for more information on how to attend or apply to present, submit a poster or take a demonstration slot, please email ann.swift@port.ac.uk or visit http://www.sacatapultcoe.org/centre/south-coast/

Please note delegates are offered a free 4D Motion Ride at the Centre for Life at 15.00. Please notify us on arrival. In addition, delegates can also get reduced entry to the Robot Exhibition created by The Science Museum.

Visit https://www.life.org.uk/ for more information

This event is part sponsored by the Optimise Hub, BEinCPPS and Fortissimo projects under I4MS.

It is supported by the North East Satellite Applications Centre of Excellence & the South Coast Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications.