Integration & strategy
What manufacturing data should we retain for future AI projects?
Updated
Manufacturing dataAI readiness
Direct answer
Retain data that connects operating conditions to outcomes: machine states, alarms, jobs, parts, programs, tools, quality results, maintenance events, timestamps, and the context needed to interpret them. More volume is not automatically better; consistent definitions, identity, time alignment, quality, and governed retention make the history usable.
Practical checkpoint
Choose one future question and confirm the retained data could reconstruct what happened, on which asset and job, under which conditions, and with what result.