In order to ensure the safety and integrity of industrial assets, inspection technology must consist of two key parts:
Data acquisition. The right data needs to be collected with sufficient coverage and precision.
Data science. How can we turn large amounts of data into insights and useful information?
For too long, equipment manufacturer focus has remained on the data acquisition side, leaving the part where data is made useful and manageable an open-ended story after the last photo is saved to the memory card. Gigabytes are not useful in themselves unless they’re well organized and presented.
But how data-savvy is the industry? Are we interested in data for the right reasons, and can we accommodate data sharing and data usage on a larger scale? Why does data-savvy still live in the meeting rooms in some industries?
