BID Group and Eight Solutions Inc. announced the creation and implementation of the Oper8 predictive analytics platform ­the culmination of a two-year vision to deliver on the promise of enabling the digital transformation of the forest products industry. The Industrial Internet of Things space is growing and BID Group is well positioned with data ready equipment and the ability to drive a complex set of unique predictive models per machine through Oper8. The Oper8 platform is a forest industry-specific IIoT and data science solution powered by Cumul8 technology. No longer a test or theory, Oper8 is live in a new BID turnkey mill as well as a number of equipment lines with leading integrated forest products companies, optimizing operations through predictive insights generated from connecting both historical and live streaming raw machine data ­from Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Solutions, IoT sensors, and more ­ within a single data system in the cloud. Cumul8's Sentinel data science engine forms the backbone of the Oper8 platform and oversees all data collected, providing intelligent tools such as forecasting and prediction models. With the Cumul8 Envision Editor, users can quickly create their own complex predictive insight models, with the only limitation being one's imagination of the solutions to optimize operational performance. These data models surface predictive insights that are visualized and alerted via the web-based Cumul8 Discovery toolkit, bringing real, actionable value to the data.