Case Study: STIWA Group achieves 15% efficiency gains and 30% faster ramp-up with Hitachi Vantara's Pentaho Business Analytics

STIWA Group enables new insights and production optimization with Pentaho

STIWA, a global specialist in high‑performance manufacturing automation, needed a future‑proof way to give customers quick, intuitive insights across real‑time and historical machine data within a single web‑based application. Facing massive data volumes (customers can produce 40 TB/year from hundreds of machines) and diverse user needs, STIWA sought an embedded analytics solution to consolidate data, support predictive analytics, and simplify reporting — partnering with Hitachi Vantara to evaluate options including Pentaho Business Analytics (part of the Lumada DataOps Suite) for integration into its AMS Analysis‑CI software.

STIWA embedded Pentaho Business Analytics via Hitachi Vantara into AMS Analysis‑CI, extending the platform with customized analytics, interactive visualizations and self‑service reporting. The Hitachi Vantara solution delivered measurable impact: overall equipment efficiency improved by about 15%, ramp‑up times fell by 30%, and development/reporting costs dropped ~35%, while enabling on‑premises and cloud deployment flexibility, easier creation of data‑rich custom reports, and a path to AI/ML‑driven insights.

STIWA

Martin Schwarzenberger

Team Leader, Development Software-Products (Analysis)