In the era of Industry 4.0, data has become a critical driver of innovation and competitiveness in manufacturing. The up-take of technologies such as IoT, AI, and robotics has led to an unprecedented explosion of data, offering transformative opportunities for process optimization, product quality enhancement, predictive maintenance, and customisation. However, realizing these benefits requires effective data collection, storage, and processing, which necessitates robust and adaptable IT infrastructures. This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of four popular data infrastructure paradigms: data lakes, data fabrics, data meshes, and data spaces. Each of these paradigms have their unique focus points and application domains. Metadata serves as a crucial component, enhancing the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of data. The paper also explores critical building blocks of modern data infrastructures within manufacturing environments, such as OPC UA, brokers, and data catalogues, highlighting their role in enabling effective data sharing, management, and governance.
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Experts like Jouslin de Noray, Shiba and Hardjono discern three paradigms in quality management: control, continuous improvement and breakthrough. Van Kemenade argues that before being able to reach breakthrough you need another paradigm: commitment.
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from the article: Abstract Based on a review of recent literature, this paper addresses the question of how urban planners can steer urban environmental quality, given the fact that it is multidimensional in character, is assessed largely in subjective terms and varies across time. The paper explores three questions that are at the core of planning and designing cities: ‘quality of what?’, ‘quality for whom?’ and ‘quality at what time?’ and illustrates the dilemmas that urban planners face in answering these questions. The three questions provide a novel framework that offers urban planners perspectives for action in finding their way out of the dilemmas identified. Rather than further detailing the exact nature of urban quality, these perspectives call for an approach to urban planning that is integrated, participative and adaptive. ; ; sustainable urban development; trade-offs; quality dimensions
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