Case Study: Dow Chemical Company achieves real-time, actionable manufacturing intelligence with Northwest Analytics

Turning Oceans of Data into Real-time, Actionable Manufacturing Intelligence

Dow Chemicals Company, a global chemical manufacturer with hundreds of sites, faced pervasive data islands: vast volumes of production data stored in disparate systems that couldn’t be analyzed together without costly IT overhauls. To avoid replacing existing databases, Dow turned to Northwest Analytics and its NWA Focus EMI solution to find an agnostic way to access and make sense of data where it already resided.

Northwest Analytics implemented NWA Focus EMI to pull data directly from Dow’s native sources into a global analytics layer and deliver real-time dashboards and process-health metrics. The result: Dow Chemicals Company gained real-time, actionable intelligence that is shared across departments, enabled data-driven decisions, and improved the ability to monitor, understand, and control manufacturing processes without expensive system replacement.

Dow Chemicals Company

Lloyd Colegrove

Director Data Services