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Edge Analytics Transform Manufacturing Operations

Key Points

  • Manufacturers and automotive companies need real‑time, low‑latency analytics on‑site to prevent equipment failures and enhance driver experiences without sending large data streams to the cloud.
  • IBM Edge Computing delivers a platform for deploying and managing workloads on edge servers and devices at scale, ensuring security, integrity, and adaptability to dynamic edge environments.
  • Running analytics directly on the machine reduces latency, cuts bandwidth usage, improves data protection, and enables immediate detection of potential failures.
  • IBM Global Services builds industry‑specific edge solutions that accelerate time‑to‑market and help customers lower outage costs while delivering richer user experiences.

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# Edge Analytics Transform Manufacturing Operations **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF5ZkcnptMs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF5ZkcnptMs) **Duration:** 00:02:28 ## Summary - Manufacturers and automotive companies need real‑time, low‑latency analytics on‑site to prevent equipment failures and enhance driver experiences without sending large data streams to the cloud. - IBM Edge Computing delivers a platform for deploying and managing workloads on edge servers and devices at scale, ensuring security, integrity, and adaptability to dynamic edge environments. - Running analytics directly on the machine reduces latency, cuts bandwidth usage, improves data protection, and enables immediate detection of potential failures. - IBM Global Services builds industry‑specific edge solutions that accelerate time‑to‑market and help customers lower outage costs while delivering richer user experiences. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF5ZkcnptMs&t=0s) **AI-Driven Edge Solutions for Manufacturers** - IBM Edge Computing provides low‑latency, on‑device AI analytics that prevent production outages and enrich automotive driver experiences without relying on cloud data transfer. ## Full Transcript
0:00imagine that you're a manufacturer and 0:02one of the things that you're trying to 0:04deal with is the potential cost for 0:06outages in your production line the cost 0:09that might occur if any of your 0:11equipment goes down and stops the 0:13production process or imagine that you 0:16are an automobile industry manufacturer 0:19and you're trying to enhance the 0:21experiences in your car you're trying to 0:24engage your clients your passengers your 0:26drivers into a better driving experience 0:29or to give them the ability to 0:31understand the features of your car in 0:33ways that the manual doesn't really 0:36offer by itself all of these examples 0:39lend themselves to being enhanced and 0:43extended using analytics using AI to 0:46infuse a better experience into the car 0:50driving environment that analytic though 0:54has the problem that it needs to run 0:57locally it needs to occur with lower 1:00latency it needs to be performed without 1:02requiring a whole bunch of data to flow 1:04back to the cloud or to your IT data 1:07center we need to take advantage of the 1:09compute capacity that exists in those 1:12environments to be able to perform the 1:14analytic that's there to enhance the 1:18experience to be able to recognize the 1:19potential of the machine to fail and be 1:22able to respond to that in real time so 1:24these capabilities are being offered by 1:26IBM in a product that we call IBM edge 1:28computing this has a couple variations 1:30including support for edge servers as 1:33well as edge devices both of which 1:35enable us to deploy and manage workloads 1:38into these devices into these servers at 1:40massive scale with security and 1:43integrity and be able to manage the 1:45diversity and dynamism of those edge 1:47computing environments in addition IBM 1:50Global Services are creating solution 1:52offerings that are tailored to specific 1:54industries and particularly use cases 1:56that not only deliver on that value but 1:59accelerate your time to market so with 2:02edge computing we can bring that 2:04analytic and perform it right there on 2:06the machine itself we can reduce the 2:09latency we can decrease the amount of 2:11bandwidth is required we can improve 2:13of the security and the protection of 2:15the data that's produced off of that 2:16machine we can look for enhancements in 2:19user experiences on the machine that 2:22delivers the value of being able to 2:24reduce that cost over time