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Service № 04 · Big Data Analytics

Big data,
built as industrial infrastructure.

The substrate everything else stands on. We benchmark your data estate, then architect and operate the platforms — lakes, streams, lakehouses, feature stores, MLOps — that make machine learning, generative AI, and advanced analytics deliverable at industrial scale and reliability.

Advisory + Solution Engineering

Where this practice moves the needle.

Models, dashboards, and copilots are downstream of data infrastructure. If the data is late, dirty, ambiguous, or unobservable, the most sophisticated AI on top will fail. The Pentaaxis big-data practice treats the underlying platform as the primary product — engineered for the scale, latency, lineage, and governance that industrial operations require.

We design for the realities of industry: hybrid on-prem and cloud, OT/IT bridging, time-series at line frequency, ten-year retention for compliance, lineage to satisfy auditors, and recovery objectives measured against unplanned downtime cost. Our reference architectures pair lakehouse fabric (Delta Lake, Iceberg) with proven streaming (Kafka, Flink) and orchestration (Airflow, Dagster).

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Core capabilities

What we build and deploy.

A working catalogue of the systems, models, and platforms our engineers ship within this practice — selected for industrial reliability, observability, and scale.

LH
Industrial data lakes

Lakehouse architectures unifying OT (sensors, MES) and IT (ERP, CRM) data with full lineage and time-travel.

ST
Streaming pipelines

Kafka- and Flink-based real-time pipelines for telemetry, event capture, and stream analytics at line frequency.

FS
Feature stores

Centralized feature platforms serving consistent features to training and production with low latency and full lineage.

OP
MLOps platforms

End-to-end ML lifecycle: experiment tracking, model registry, deployment, monitoring, automated retraining.

BI
Analytics fabric

Self-serve analytics platforms with semantic layers, governed datasets, embedded BI for line, plant, and executive views.

GV
Data governance

Catalogues, lineage, access policies, masking, and audit trails meeting GxP, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 requirements.

Use cases

Where this earns its place.

Representative deployments across our industrial client base. Each grounded in production engineering — not concept slides.

01
Platform
Multi-plant industrial lakehouse

Unified data platform ingesting MES, SCADA, historian, ERP, and quality systems across a global manufacturing footprint with single semantic layer.

02
Real-time
Sub-second streaming for asset telemetry

Kafka + Flink pipelines processing millions of sensor events per second with windowed aggregations, anomaly scoring, and downstream model invocation.

03
OT/IT
Bridging Purdue layers from cell to cloud

Architectures that respect Purdue Model boundaries while enabling secure, governed data flow from PLC/SCADA to cloud analytics.

04
Operations
Time-series at scale on industrial historians

Modernize legacy historians with cloud-native time-series stores while preserving analytical continuity for control engineers.

05
Quality
Quality-data fabric for product genealogy

End-to-end traceability platform linking raw materials, in-process measurements, finished goods, and field returns.

06
Supply chain
Demand-supply collaborative data layer

Cross-tier data sharing with privacy-preserving analytics, allowing trading partners to share signals without exposing competitive data.

07
MLOps
Production model platform with continuous monitoring

End-to-end MLOps stack: feature store, registry, deployment, drift detection, automated retraining, governance for hundreds of models.

08
Self-serve
Governed self-serve analytics for plant managers

Semantic layer + dbt + BI tools allowing plant managers to ask new questions of certified data without waiting on central analytics teams.

Technology stack

Engineered on a production stack.

Tools, frameworks, and platforms our engineers use day-to-day in this practice.

Apache Spark Kafka Flink Delta Lake Iceberg Snowflake Databricks Trino dbt Airflow Dagster Feast MLflow Kubernetes Argo Great Expectations
Begin the conversation

Benchmark first.
Then create real value.

Every Pentaaxis engagement starts with a structured benchmarking conversation — no obligation, a senior engineer in the room, and a calibrated view of where AI moves the needle for your organization.