Bühler Group is a family-owned company from Switzerland that has been engaged in the fields of grain and food and advanced materials manufacturing for more than 160 years. Bühler's Greater China headquarters is located in Wuxi, Jiangsu. Wuxi Buhler is a comprehensive company integrating R&D, production and sales. It has advanced production equipment and high-quality scientific and technological R&D personnel. It focuses on deep processing of grains and nutritional fortification of grains. It specializes in the development, production and sales of nutritionally fortified rice. , whole grain food, convenience food, the products are in line with the development direction of green, natural, healthy, nutritious, functional and compound, and have reached the international leading level.
As its business develops, Wuxi Bühler needs to better manage its production data and transform it into visual information to display to different user groups.
1. Current pain points in data visualization
In terms of data analysis, Wuxi Bühler's production operations team is mainly engaged in data collection, cleaning and processing. In order to better manage production data, Wuxi Bühler needs to implement large-screen display of dashboards in two scenarios:
■ The first scenario is a dashboard display on the factory production line. The entire process data from raw material warehousing to finished product delivery needs to be monitored;
■ The second scenario is the real-time dashboard display of the production process. For example, key indicators such as machine operation parameters, energy consumption, temperature and humidity need to be monitored in real time.
Before the introduction of data visualization analysis tools, team members relied on visualization frameworks such as ECharts to achieve data visualization needs through code development. However, with the deepening of data analysis scenarios and frequent changes in user demand, this method is increasingly unable to meet the needs of the team. The production operations team plans to purchase a data visualization analysis tool to assist in meeting various data display needs.
Wuxi Bühler has the following rigid requirements for the selection of data visualization software:
1. It is simple to use, has low learning cost, and provides a complete learning path so that team members can quickly get started;
2. Provide strong after-sales support to ensure that problems encountered during the use of the software can be quickly responded to and solved;
3. Ability to connect to multiple data sources including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and SQL Server databases currently used by the team to meet data access needs;
4. The completed large dashboard screen can be easily embedded into the company's own business system, reducing development costs and improving integration;
5. Support permission management, which can control the dashboard permissions and data permissions of different employees and users to ensure the security of enterprise data.
2. Why choose DataEase open source data visualization analysis tool?
After comparing some domestic and foreign BI software (including FineBI, Superset, MetaBase, DataEase, etc.), Wuxi Bühler finally chose DataEase, an open source data visualization analysis tool.
The main reasons for choosing DataEase are as follows:
1. Easy to use. In DataEase, you only need to establish the corresponding data source and data set, and you can complete the editing of the view through simple mouse clicks and drag-and-drop operations. Compared with the previous code development method, DataEase can help the team complete 80% of daily data visualization work in 20% of the time;
2. Wuxi Bühler has many business data sources, so there are many types of data sources that need to be connected. DataEase can connect to relational databases and non-relational databases, and can completely cover the data sources used by Wuxi Bühler daily;
3. After completing the production of the large dashboard screen in DataEase and creating the corresponding public link for the dashboard, the link can be easily and quickly embedded into Wuxi Bühler's own business system through iframe (embedded frame);
4. The permission management function of DataEase can restrict different business departments to only see the business data and dashboards of their respective departments, and the data permissions of department personnel can also be finely configured through the row and row permission functions of DataEase;
5. DataEase is a software that iterates on a monthly basis. Its product development and technical support teams can promptly respond to problems encountered by customers during use, and can quickly schedule and resolve general needs and problems.
3. Display of data visualization results achieved by applying DataEase
1. Wuxi Bühler connected multiple heterogeneous data sources through DataEase, and finally summarized the data into DataEase for data display. The production operation team used DataEase to create a large real-time dashboard that displays the production capacity, operating hours, overall equipment efficiency (OEE) and other data of the production line equipment, as well as aggregated data such as power consumption per ton and production statistics. non-real-time dashboard large screen;
▲Figure 1 Wuxi Bühler production and operation data processing process
2. Wuxi Bühler’s production and operation team embedded the large dashboard screen produced using DataEase into the company’s business system, which not only met the dashboard display needs of the business system, but also greatly reduced the development cost of the business system;
3. Through the rights management function of DataEase, the browsing and use rights of personnel's data sources, data sets, dashboards and other resources are effectively restricted. At the same time, data permissions are controlled through the configuration of row and row permissions, limiting the data and fields seen by different people, which meets the basic needs of enterprise data security control.
▲Figure 2 Wuxi Bühler’s DataEase permission architecture system
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