White Paper · PDF · 19 pages
The Foundation Layer for Autonomous Operations
Why real-time process sensor data validation is the prerequisite — not the postscript — for industrial AI, closed-loop optimization, and autonomous process operations.
Written for operations, engineering, automation, and digital technology management responsible for AI and autonomous-operations programs. Every autonomy roadmap rests on an assumption that is almost never tested — that the sensor values arriving from the historian are correct.
Inside
- Autonomy raises the cost of a wrong number
- A data-quality gap that nobody owns
- Why retrospective analytics is not validation
- Validate, contextualize, certify — and the four tenets that make it work at plant scale
- What happens to a single sensor value, end to end
- What real-time validation does not do
- How to sequence this into an existing program
5–20%of sensors found faulty on first deployment
< 1 minto detect a sensor fault
< 2 weeksto first validated data stream