Sentence examples for digital production system from inspiring English sources
The BBC has scrapped an ambitious attempt to create a digital production system and archive after admitting it had wasted almost £100 million on it and that to continue would be "throwing good money after bad".
The BBC has scrapped a £98m digital production system, which its director general said had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money".
The BBC is to abandon a £98m digital production system, after BBC chief Tony Hall said it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money".
He is one of a handful of current and former BBC employees giving evidence to the public affairs committee about the scheme which was intended to create an integrated digital production and archiving system and ended up being abandoned having cost £100 million of licence fee cash.
The BBC had aimed to create an integrated digital production and archiving system allowing staff to handle all aspects of video and audio content from their desks.
First they copped most of the blame for the £100m failure of the BBC's Digital Media Initiative: the pan-BBC, end-to-end digital production and archive system that never actually worked.
The BBC's ill-fated Digital Media Initiative (DMI) – the plan for an end-to-end, all-encompassing digital production and archive system – looks for all the world like (another) story of managerial ineptitude, compounded by a catastrophic failure of governance which together have cost licence payers nearly £100m.
Via the description and modeling of objects within the production system, digital factory would be mapped to the cyber level.
By projecting the digital shadow onto the real production system, any discrepancies are identified immediately, any problems rectified and downtimes reduced even before they arise.
The Digital Media Initiative (DMI), which aimed to create a production system linked to the Corporation's vast broadcasting archive, has cost £98.4m since it started in 2008.
Therefore, new digital factory planning tools tailored for SMEs supporting the production system planning are required.
