GLOSSARY: Digitalization of production processes: What benefits does Power BI bring?

Microsoft Power BI is an exceptional tool for data visualization and analytics, playing a key role in the process of manufacturing process digitalization. How can Power BI support your company’s digital transformation?

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Power BI provides manufacturing companies with a powerful platform for data analysis, real-time production monitoring, and deeper insights into manufacturing operations. Combined, these capabilities lead to improved efficiency, quality, and competitiveness in production.

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Manufacturing Process Digitalization with Microsoft Power BI

• Manufacturing data visualization: Power BI enables the creation of interactive dashboards, charts, and reports from production data, allowing easy tracking of KPIs, machine performance, inventory levels, production quality, and more.
• Real-time monitoring: Power BI provides live dashboards that display the current state of manufacturing processes in real time, enabling immediate responses to issues or inefficiencies.
• Trend analysis: Power BI tracks long-term trends and patterns in production data, helping identify recurring problems and improve planning and performance.
• Quality analysis: Power BI can analyze data related to product quality — such as defect rates, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Collaboration and sharing: With Power BI, all team members can access up-to-date data and collaborate based on a single source of truth.
• Predictive analytics: Advanced Power BI models can forecast future production trends and potential equipment failures, enabling preventive maintenance and minimizing downtime.
• Integration with multiple data sources: Power BI seamlessly connects and consolidates data from diverse sources — databases, Excel files, cloud platforms, and more.