INDUSTRY SECTORS

Data mining can be applied to many different problems. As soon as you have data, there is an opportunity to analyze that data. Here at PEPITe we have focused our data mining expertise and tools on Industry, and not on marketing analyzes that is the most common use of data mining today.

In todays glabal market, many commodity industries suffers of reduced margins caused by an increased price competition mostly coming from developing countries. In order to stay competitive, industry needs to reduce their costs. We see three axes of cost reduction in industry: Productivity, Quality and Operating costs. For operating costs, energy is becoming more and more important, it is also the operating cost where little has been done (compared to other costs). Compared to the efforts made with regards to Productivity and Quality, there has not been as much focus on reducing Energy costs.

Any industry that wants to improve their competitive position and has a considerable energy bill is part of our target industry. Among those we list a few:

• Pulp & Paper
• Steel Industry
• Refining
• Cement
• Food and Drink