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Medical device manufacturing

From scattered data to ML-ready pipelines

Global manufacturer with complex production and quality data needs

Faster data ingestion

The problem

Critical operational and customer data lived across multiple systems. Teams spent significant time preparing data manually before any analysis or modeling could happen — slowing decisions and limiting ML use cases.

Starting state

  • Manual exports and ad hoc SQL
  • Inconsistent data quality between acquisition and integration layers
  • ML projects blocked by upstream prep work

What changed

  • End-to-end ETL pipelines on Azure with logging and error handling
  • SQL stored procedures for reliable ingestion across data layers
  • Feature engineering pipeline to support modeling in Azure Databricks
  • LLM-assisted ingestion agent to accelerate messy intake workflows

Results

  • 5× faster data ingestion via intelligent intake automation
  • More reliable pipelines with structured error handling
  • ML models fed by consistent, analysis-ready datasets