Enabling adaptive analytics at the edge with the Bi-Rex Big Data platform

Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) is an emergent and disruptive paradigm that aims to optimize industrial process efficiency and sustainability by leveraging innovative and sophisticated data-driven approaches. It is a technology intensive concept that has the ambition of achieving and maintaining "first-time-right'' quality goals in spite of varying processes and input material. As a result, developing ZDM applications might become overwhelming for small enterprises due to the multitude of diverse platform, the lack of know-how, and the need to adapt general purpose solutions to meet their needs. The Big Data Innovation and Research Excellence (Bi-Rex) is an Italian consortium that aims to accelerate the industrial innovation process of small enterprises. Within this consortium we developed a Big Data platform that enables adaptive analytics at the IT/OT boundary by leveraging innovative solutions for the safe and automatic deployment of data-driven apps, using MLOps and DevOps techniques and technologies, and evaluated it in real use cases provided by the world leading industrial partners involved in the project.