Guests: Allen Turner, Advanced Analytics Team Lead, International Paper
Co-host: Mariana Sandin, Industry Principal, AVEVA.
Industry: Paper and Forest Products
Business Impact: Process Productivity

In this episode of Radio PI, co-hosts Nick D’Orazio and Mariana Sandin speak with Allen Turner of International Paper (IP) about the unique challenges of digital transformation in a legacy industry like pulp and paper. Mr. Turner, as part of International Paper’s global technology team, is working on an initiative called “mill of the future,” which focuses on cost savings and optimization across International Paper’s mills. Mr. Turner lays out the importance of establishing foundational data quality—or “cleaning up the messy basement” of old data tags and stale data tags—in order to ensure a successful digital transformation project.