Databricks Inc. today is adding another vertical industry lakehouse targeting the manufacturing industry.

The Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing unifies data and artificial intelligence technology in a high-speed analytics engine that has already been adopted by DuPont de Nemours Inc., Honeywell International Inc., Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC, Royal Dutch Shell plc, and Tata Steel Ltd.

This vertical lakehouse comes with 13 built-in notebooks with embedded best practices for predictive maintenance, digital twins, supply chain optimization, demand forecasting, real-time IoT analytics and other manufacturing-oriented tasks. The company also has a handful of partner-built applications in such as intelligent manufacturing and quality inspection with more to come. Five of these so-called “Brickbuilder” applications will be available at launch from Avanade Inc., Celebal Technologies Private Ltd., DataSentics a.s., Deloitte LLP and Tredence Inc.

“The Celebal Technologies solution is available to support migrations to Databricks outside of the Manufacturing industry; the other solutions are all newly released and specific to the Lakehouse for Manufacturing,” a Databricks spokesman said. Data governance and sharing features are built-in to enable real-time insights used in agile manufacturing and logistics, the company said.

The Lakehouse for Manufacturing also includes access to packaged use case accelerators that are intended to accelerate the use of analytics and help organizations tackle industry-specific tasks. Other manufacturing-specific features include part-Level forecasting for reduced inventory stockouts, consistent reporting on equipment and effectiveness using data from sensors and support for computer vision applications that are used to automate manufacturing processes and improve quality.

Databricks also sells lakehouses targeting the communications and media, financial services, healthcare and retail industries.

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