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Harnessing Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in the Building Products Industry with Databricks

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✍️ Authors: Joy Garnett, Avinash Sooriyarachchi, Sathish Gangichetty

🔖 Topics: Manufacturing Analytics, Anomaly Detection, IT OT Convergence

🏢 Organizations: Databricks, LP Building Solutions, AVEVA


One of the biggest data-driven use cases at LP was monitoring process anomalies with time-series data from thousands of sensors. With Apache Spark on Databricks, large amounts of data can be ingested and prepared at scale to assist mill decision-makers in improving quality and process metrics. To prepare these data for mill data analytics, data science, and advanced predictive analytics, it is necessary for companies like LP to process sensor information faster and more reliably than on-premises data warehousing solutions alone.

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