Big Data Analytics has started to make significant strides in less explored areas like improving manufacturing performance. No wonder the theme of ARC European Forum, 2015 was intended to help develop some clarity over emerging related concepts such as Industrie 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Several use cases about how "applying these concepts can deliver tangible benefits in real-world industrial production across a broad cross-section of industrial sectors" were presented. Read More at: http://www.automationworld.com/industrial-internet-things/big-data-analytics-improve-manufacturing-performance