Industrial analytics has come to occupy an increasingly significant role in smart, automated manufacturing processes in various industry verticals. It is a key component of industrial internet of things (IIoT) and received considerable attention with the advent of fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0. The benefit of real-time optimization and value addition to enterprise processes, especially for manufacturing sectors, is a compelling proposition driving the evolution of the global industrial analytics market . Various software and tools encompassed by industrial analytics pertain to areas such as operational, customer, marketing, risk, financial, and workforce. The products encompass data-based business models and data analytics techniques for analysing industrial data. Advanced systems use real-time large scale distributed computing. The various applications include predictive, prescriptive, diagnostics, and descriptive. Small and medium-scale enterprises in various regio...