About Microsoft in the manufacturing industry
The Microsoft commitment
Microsoft and its partners are committed to providing manufacturers with a complete set of tools to improve performance. Working with industry experts in businesses ranging from chemicals and petroleum to automobile manufacturing and electronics, we offer an integrated set of platforms to help companies handle their most difficult challenges.
Our technology solutions and the applications our partners create with them enable manufacturers to manage quality, cost, production flow, and security in exciting new ways from the plant floor to the back office.
The Microsoft value proposition
Microsoft focuses on what we do best: providing the standard, reliable, cost-effective tools that create a solid foundation for industry-specific applications. Because we offer strong performance and high value in products like Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, and Microsoft Office, our partners can focus on what they do best: using the Microsoft platform to create state-of-the-art work management, SCADA, LIMS, ERP, and production process control systems.
Moreover, because the Microsoft foundation is based on an integrated set of standards, our partners and their customers can take advantage of these applications to offer a new level of business intelligence and security.
What this means for manufacturers is that they get higher quality applications more quickly and economically, enabling them to compete more successfully in the global marketplace.
Microsoft Partners
Microsoft solutions partners in manufacturing include such major innovators as ABB, Dassault, GE Fanuc, Honeywell, Rockwell, Siemens, Invensys, OSIsoft, AspenTech, UGS, HP and more.
Learn more about Microsoft Partner solutions for manufacturers
Find out how Microsoft and its partners are working together to help manufacturers connect data and business processes across the enterprise for competitive advantage.
Helping to set industry standards
Microsoft knows that success depends on a team effort. For that reason, we engage with our business partners and leading manufacturers in a wide range of standards bodies and industry trade groups to ensure that our technology investments support our customers’ highest needs. Some of the leading industry groups that benefit from our participation and leadership include:
| • | OPC Foundation, promoting interoperability in automation |
| • | ISA Society, the international society for measurement and control |
| • | CIDX, the Chemical Industry Data Exchange |
| • | RosettaNet, a consortium of major information technology, electronics components, semiconductor, telecommunications, and logistics companies |
| • | AIAG, the Automotive Industry Action Group |
| • | SPE, the Society of Petroleum Engineers |
Listening to our customers
Established in 1999 through the ISA Society, the Microsoft Manufacturing User Group is an independent forum consisting of many of the major manufacturing companies from around the world. Members include 3M, Proctor & Gamble, Boeing, and GM. It provides an opportunity for you to tell us what you need from Microsoft, and to recommend to your own membership how to get the most value from Microsoft based solutions.
Our role: to listen and respond.
