Edwin van Dijk

Vice President, Marketing at TrendMiner NV for Software AG

Edwin has over 20 years of experience in bringing software solutions for the process & power industry to market. Various roles from business consultancy to product management gave Edwin the experience to expand TrendMiner’s footprint in the market.

Recent posts

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Be like Clariant: Open the door to machine learning
Specialty chemical company Clariant, with TrendMiner as its partner, has unlocked machine learning (ML) to evolve its plants into augmented factories. To do this, Nimet Sterneberg, a chemical engineer who works in the data science division at Clariant, is helping his chemical engineering colleagues embrace a concept that is mostly new to them: Data science. Clariant decided to try a hybrid approach where data scientists work together with…
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Become data driven with self-service analytics
As many companies struggle to adopt a data-driven culture and strategy, self-service analytics tools are becoming a must-have. Adopting a data-driven strategy is essential if you want to thrive in today’s dog-eat-dog world, yet this remains fraught with difficulties for many organizations. Somewhere between 60% and 73% of all data within an enterprise goes unused for analytics, according to Mike Gualtieri, Vice President and…
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Building the TrendMiner self-service analytics tribe
Get some hands-on experience with self-service analytics at TrendLab, TrendMiner’s yearly user event on September 15th, 22nd, and 29th. TrendMiner delivers self-service analytics for process manufacturing time-series Big Data. Its analytics software is called self-service because it puts the analytics into your hands – the subject matter experts - so you can analyze, monitor, and predict process and asset performance and maintenance. This improves operational…
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Five self-service industrial analytics use cases
Whether you want to add context to your production data, improve product quality or gain insights into your energy consumption, self-service industrial analytics help you imagine what the future may hold. Self-service industrial analytics solutions are used by process engineers daily to uncover thousands of opportunities for optimization, often increasing overall profitability. This is where TrendMiner comes in; offering engineers…
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LANXESS Delivers Beyond Expectation
The specialty chemicals industry focuses on making small batches of high margin products to meet very specific customer specifications. The market is huge: It tops $1 trillion globally, according to some sources, and is expected to grow between 4% and 6% per year for the next few years. These high margins are attracting attention from new participants, creating fierce competition for…
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Get into the Analytics Cockpit
Move over data scientists, business users want to get into the “production cockpit” and pilot their own analytics projects. Traditionally, advanced analytics has been the realm of data scientists. But, today, advanced analytics needs to be more democratized so that all business users can be empowered to take control. Subject matter experts in particular have a very good understanding of…
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Give Engineers the OT tools they need
Operational data is valuable stuff. Treated correctly, it can solve previously unsolvable operational issues. It can verify (or not) the hypothesis of a good idea based on tribal knowledge. Most importantly, it can lead to new ways to improve your operational performance. Today, organizations are feeling the pressure; they hear analysts and competitors discussing hot topics like digitalization, industry 4.0,…
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