Claire Mercier / Chief Data Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
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Aerospace suppliers usually describe traceability as a feature of their systems. I think it is better measured as a performance: the hours, the people and the corrections needed to answer a customer's question about a suspect lot, tested regularly and reported to the board.
Read the essayAerospace suppliers usually describe traceability as a feature of their systems. I think it is better measured as a performance: the hours, the people and the corrections needed to answer a customer's question about a suspect lot, tested regularly and reported to the board.
Predictive maintenance cases in machining plants usually assume a history of failures that the plant does not have. Before approving the saving, a board should ask how many recorded, coded failures the model will learn from, and what simpler monitoring would achieve.
Multi-plant manufacturers often centralise operational data in order to compare plants. I argue that the centre should own a short dictionary of shared definitions, fund the people who apply them and leave the data, with its local detail, in the plant that produces it.