Industrial applications of big data: State of the art survey

Abstract

Big data analytics has become an important tool for the progress and success of a wide range of businesses and industries. Its diversity and flexibility offer a steady increasing scope for the several applications to stay competitive in the market. For that, big data approach provides several advantages such as advanced analytics, intelligent optimization, informed decision making, large-scale modeling, and accurate predictions. Due to the numerous advantages, it has been particularly possible to find more accurate and feasible solutions for the current engineering problems. Hence, the impact of big-data analytics in the engineering realm and applications is increasing more than ever. This article presents a survey to investigate how engineering community has adopted big data technologies to stay competitive. To conduct the investigation a state of the art survey of the academic literature on the big data applications to engineering is presented.