All industries have to comply with legislation somewhere along the line. Whether that’s in terms of energy efficiency, quality control, health and safety, or any other area for concern. By having total control of the data produced within your organisation you can avoid costs associated with non- compliance. If your equipment isn’t operating efficiently, if you’re consistently shipping products that don’t meet compliance, these things will eventually incur fines or requirements to upgrade your facilities, potentially halting production. Looking to the future, compliance isn’t ever just about the here and now. For one extreme example, the aerospace industry requires comprehensive data to be kept for the life of an engine plus twenty years. This could be decades worth of data for a single product. Any connectivity platform needs to facilitate the affordable archive, storage, and eventual retrieval of that data to ensure costly gaps don’t appear. It’s also vital to be able to sort between what is and what will be needed to keep costs down. The most comprehensive solution might be to keep every single piece of data, but that can quickly become unmanageable and make retrieval of vital data difficult. Instead, you need a system that knows what must be archived, and what data can be set free, and when. Affordability Avoiding Cost and Capitalising on Opportunities - Legislation SHOP FLOOR CONNECTIVITY ACROSS YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN