Saurabh Gupta, Head IT, Domestic Textiles - Aditya Birla Group 

“Data is important for transformation; one cannot lead a transformation without getting the basic data in place. What cannot be measured cannot be improved, many companies do not measure the basic data, it has become a chore to collect data and people look at data in a scant manner. There is a massive data available out there that can be collected in a digital world and that is where Blockchain helps us.

Digital in manufacturing has many benefits: improving agility, building scale process efficiency, accelerating innovation, improving accuracy, reliability and traceability. IoT platform were used here and data from SAP ERP systems and PLC’s were used. Most manufacturing data and sales data have variability, digital helps to arrow down on that variability. In our business we have witnessed significant increase in productivity of workers and increase in asset utilization by leveraging digital platform in the journey of Industry 4.0, Analytics.

Digital in manufacturing has delivered a 15% improvement in productivity pit to port, a 60% drop in safety violations and has built a proactive safety culture according to their case studies. Digital tracking helps to identify the people and thus one can take action – Technologies used over here were Machine Learning using Video Analytics.We have to get dramatically different on the digital journey in Textiles can lead the way.”