Alcoa's Journey Towards Manufacturing Data Analytics

This document is a summary of a customer webinar that discusses Alcoa's implementation of Seeq, an advanced analytics solution aimed at improving data analytics capabilities within the company. Alcoa, a leader in aluminum production, faced challenges with its complex manual processes for extracting and analyzing operational time series data, which hindered its strategic goals of reducing complexity and advancing sustainably. By adopting Seeq, Alcoa empowered its operational teams to independently access and analyze data, significantly reducing reliance on IT personnel. The transition from Power BI to Seeq has drastically decreased report creation time from three weeks to just two hours, while also enhancing report accuracy through effective data cleansing tools. The summary outlines Alcoa's future plans to expand Seeq usage, develop tailored add-on modules, and foster collaboration across different plants, ultimately aiming to create a community of practice for knowledge sharing and to build a comprehensive data platform within Microsoft Azure.