The promise of Industry 4.0 has many manufacturing leaders thinking big. They’ve been sold on the benefits of enterprise-wide data visibility and usage but fail to recognize the data requirements to do so.

When working with manufacturing data, it’s not just about providing access to data and letting data scientists conjure business performance through artificial intelligence. This framework provides readers with an understanding of where they are in their data maturity journey—and where they need to go to achieve the results they expect. It’s a four-stage process that includes data access, data contextualization, site visibility, and enterprise visibility.