Experts in digital transformation, the Nokia Team has conducted qualitative research with stakeholders in manufacturing to understand where the industry is in terms of their digitalization process today. Communication between teams, improvements in security, sustainability issues and real time data transmission are a few of the challenges plaguing the overall manufacturing industry. While these challenges also exist within the chemical and plastics sector, there are special nuances that make this sector unique.
Chemical manufacturing is a complex production process that involves more than the assembly of parts. Not only do the labs and processes consume and generate a lot of data, the necessity of obtaining information in real time, the need for advanced process simulations and rising production costs have made digitalization a vital part of the operations