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Data Visualization for Industry 4.0: Developing Dashboards with Power BI – A Case Study in a Pharmaceutical Company

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Performance measurement is the key to controlling and optimizing organizational activities. Pharmaceutical companies need to retrieve, process, compare and update information. Dashboards are a new tool to track key performance indicators by displaying information to managers to improve campaign performance. This work presents a case study in a pharmaceutical industry that produces drugs in solid and liquid forms. It identifies key indicators and sets up and to develop and validate a new production dashboard. This last is used for the management and the monitoring of pharmaceutical activities which utilize and visualize existing data in order to allow the decision-makers to target their goals.

First, the data are collected from the production process then, the entity-relationship diagram is developed. Second, the database has been imported into Microsoft Power Business Intelligent (Microsoft Power BI). The selected key performance indicators (KPIs) will be used to create an interactive dashboard to be analyzed and visualized and to help the decision-makers to move from the traditional style of production data storage to big data analytics. Finally, based on all the results, the production manager can make investment proposals and will prepare a management review which will be presented to the owner in the form of an annual result.

Keywords

  • Key performance indicators
  • Dashboard
  • Industry 4.0
  • Pharmaceutical industry
  • Data analysis
  • Power BI

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The authors gratefully acknowledge insightful comments and suggestions in the development of this paper from The Mechanics, Modelling and Manufacturing LAboratory (LA2MP) of the National School of Engineers of Sfax and the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (LGM) of National School of Engineers of Monastir and seminar participants of the International Congress Design and Modelling of Mechanical Systems (CMSM’2021), and two anonymous reviewers. The authors would also like to acknowledge support from the Sfax Industrie 4.0 Center.

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Belghith, M., Ben Ammar, H., Masmoudi, F., Elloumi, A. (2023). Data Visualization for Industry 4.0: Developing Dashboards with Power BI – A Case Study in a Pharmaceutical Company. In: Walha, L., et al. Design and Modeling of Mechanical Systems - V. CMSM 2021. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14615-2_45

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