Advances in Big Data Analytics at The Dow Chemical Company

Big data analytics is the journey to turn data into insights for more informed business and operational decisions. As the Chemical Engineering community is collecting more data (volume) from different sources (variety), this journey becomes more challenging in terms of using the right data and the right tools (analytics) to make the right decisions in real-time (velocity). This paper highlights recent advancements in the big data analytics journey at The Dow Chemical Company in the areas of Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence, multivariate analysis, on-line fault detection, inferential sensors, and batch data analytics.