Sep 10 2025

CDW Executive SummIT: How Manufacturers Can Turn Raw Data Into Insights

At the CDW Executive SummIT in Las Vegas, CDW's Jill Klein offered valuable insights on how manufacturers can transform fragmented data into clear insights. It starts by validating data at ingestion, maintaining golden records and ensuring provenance from raw materials to finished products. Blending edge and cloud intelligence for real-time anomaly detection, fleetwide machine monitoring and time-series analysis can also streamline the process. With clean, trusted data as the foundation, manufacturers can start to reap the benefits of dark factories, digital twins and spatial computing.

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Participants

    Jill Klein, Head of Emerging Technology and IoT, CDW

Video Highlights

  • Most artificial intelligence pilots fail because the data is fragmented, inconsistent or incomplete. That's why trustworthy, validated data is the bedrock of every manufacturing breakthrough.
  • By combining edge intelligence for real-time anomaly detection with cloud analytics for fleetwide performance, manufacturers can move from monitoring single machines to uncovering patterns across factories.
  • The next generation of manufacturing consists of dark factories, digital twins and spatial computing to transform operations with autonomy, simulation and real-time visibility.