In today’s manufacturing industry, informed decisions depend on accurate, up-to-date, and traceable information. Every misleading indicator can lead to unnecessary costs, delays, and decisions misaligned with real operational conditions.
That’s why Marelli, one of the world’s largest suppliers of automotive components, turned to Venturus. The goal was clear: to transform how factory data was organized and monitored, ensuring more reliable and integrated analytics for the company’s leadership.
In a fast-paced digital transformation landscape, this evolution became essential to support strategic decision-making and strengthen the company’s data-driven culture.
The Challenge: Stability and Traceability Across Multiple Operational Fronts
Marelli’s factories generate massive amounts of data every day — from production and quality metrics to resource consumption and worker safety. These datasets were consolidated into dashboards used by the executive board to track industrial performance.
However, the system faced frequent instability when loading data, limited traceability of errors, and no automatic alerts for inconsistencies. These issues made result analysis more difficult and required significant manual effort for validation.
The challenge was to create a stable, scalable, and transparent data architecture capable of eliminating rework and increasing leadership’s confidence in the presented indicators.
The Solution: A New Data Architecture Powered by Microsoft Fabric
Venturus rebuilt Marelli’s data architecture around a smarter, more modern model, using Microsoft Fabric as the foundation to orchestrate and automate data flows across multiple systems.
The new data ecosystem delivered major improvements in reliability and traceability, enabling the company to operate with clean, consistent, and real-time information.
Key enhancements included:
- Data orchestration with Microsoft Fabric: Greater efficiency in integrating multiple data sources and automating update processes.
- A robust, scalable data lake: Centralized storage with complete historical records, ensuring fast and secure access to information.
- Automatic inconsistency alerts: Intelligent notifications that identify and flag issues before they impact analytics.
- Full traceability and visibility: Continuous monitoring of each stage, allowing quick audits and corrections when needed.
This combination of technology and data engineering raised the reliability standard of Marelli’s analytics, strengthening data governance throughout the organization.
“The project with Venturus transformed how we handle operational data. Integrating with Microsoft Fabric brought automation, scalability, and a solid structure with Onlake, Pipelines, and Dataflows. In addition, smart alerts and data traceability eliminated recurring errors, making our analyses much more reliable.”
— Cristiano Santos, Digital Manufacturing LATAM, Marelli
Results: Faster and More Reliable Decisions
The new architecture brought immediate benefits to Marelli’s operations. Updates are now performed automatically, reducing manual errors and preserving a complete history of information.
Integration with Microsoft Fabric also ensured greater scalability to handle the growing volume of factory data while enabling real-time analysis.
Some of the most significant outcomes include:
- Increased reliability and stability of dashboards
- Continuous and automated data updates
- Early detection of failures and inconsistencies
- Full traceability and preservation of data history
These improvements empowered leadership to make faster, better-informed decisions, reducing rework and driving greater operational efficiency.
“The implementation of new tools and the validation of data before using them in dashboards showed the team’s ability to adapt and apply innovative solutions using the existing infrastructure. In the end, we gained confidence, availability, and clarity in our information, along with better decision-making.”
— Vagner Araujo, Test Engineer, Marelli
A Strategic Step Toward Industry 4.0
More than a technical upgrade, this project marked a strategic leap in Marelli’s digital transformation journey. Reliable data now supports a more agile, predictable, and intelligent operation — key elements for competitiveness in the era of Industry 4.0.
The partnership with Venturus reinforces how data engineering serves as the backbone of digital transformation in industrial companies, connecting technology, processes, and people around data-driven decision-making.
To explore this journey in detail and see the full project behind the scenes, visit the complete Marelli case on the Venturus website.
