Sensors to monitor all vehicles
Navistar is an important American manufacturer of the famous yellow school buses - transporting over 25 million children every day to and from school - and other specialized vehicles. The company aims to make the roads safer by integrating every vehicle in its fleet with sensors to prevent hazardous customer breakdowns on the road. For the transportation manufacturer, that means quickly analyzing streaming data from vehicle sensors to increase reliability of customers’ trucks and buses.
Analytics for all purposes
To reach its destination, Navistar has integrated advanced analytics from SAS with multiple data sources, including its Hadoop big data architecture.
Navistar data scientists and analysts use SAS to dig through the mountains of data that the sensors provide to prioritize maintenance needs and prevent breakdowns. In addition, the company uses SAS across many departments to develop marketing models, price elasticity models, predict equipment repairs and more.
Analytics for dummies and experts
Gyasi K. Dapaa, Data Science Director bij Navistar: “SAS software’s user-friendly interface allows analysts with light programming skills to spearhead interesting analytical projects and predictive models. Meanwhile, strong programmers are free to write their own code. This flexibility provides an edge that is unique to SAS.”