Data Collection: Inventory and Maintenance 231

Data Collection: Inventory and Maintenance 231 provides an overview of the processes, strategies, and software for storing data and maintaining data quality in smart manufacturing. Data inventory describes a record of datasets that lists important details about the compiled information and how frequently it is updated. Data maintenance identifies and executes the measures required to cultivate and manage data ensuring that it will continue to be useful and accessible. Data inventory and maintenance are critical parts of data management. After taking this class, users will be able to define data inventory and maintenance, describe how it functions and is deployed, and identify the different ways it is facilitated throughout the data management process. Users will also better understand the value and importance of data integration software and appreciate some of the Lean Six Sigma principles used to reduce defects and variation among products.