Microsoft partners for the manufacturing industry

Technology solutions from Microsoft partners help people in the manufacturing industry quickly link all aspects of their business. These solutions enable people to connect operational and sales systems to help the entire manufacturing organization work, react, and think as one. Microsoft partner solutions tie all data, devices, systems, and business processes together from factory floor to sales floor.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions

Provide an integrated environment for your people - engineers, manufacturers, suppliers … even customers - to create, manage, and leverage product information throughout the entire life cycle.

View partners who offer PLM solutions

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Actify
Actify's products are designed to enable easy and secure access, communication, and distribution of multiple two-dimensional and three-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD) file formats and related design documents without requiring access to native CAD systems.

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Aras Corporation
Aras solutions drive a process-oriented approach to manage, measure, and improve new product introduction and quality compliance from concept through development, launch, and production.

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Autodesk
The Autodesk Data Management Solution allows manufacturers to take advantage of design data across the manufacturing process, helping them accelerate product development cycles through revision control, life cycle states, engineering change management, and the ability to create, edit, and manage bills of materials.

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Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems provides software for the life cycle of the world's infrastructure, spanning architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), and operations.

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CoCreate
CoCreate's OneSpace 2006 uses industry-standard Web services to successfully integrate manufacturers' product planning and manufacturing tools to create a modular but comprehensive product development environment that supports speed, flexibility, and innovation.

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Dassault Systèmes
Dassault Systèmes is a world leader in PLM software solutions powered by three-dimensional representation. Their applications and services enable manufacturers of all sizes to digitally design and simulate products, as well as the processes and resources required to manufacture and maintain them.

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Intergraph
Intergraph develops integrated data environments to track, manage, and maintain the vast amount of information associated with complex assets throughout their life cycle. This provides a single point of access to all asset-related data, and reduces total ownership costs.

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Lectra
Lectra offers software solutions to design, develop, and manufacture products such as garments, seats, airbags, etc. Lectra has added a new dimension to its technology offering with its PLM enterprise software for fashion and retailing.

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MSC Software
MSC Software's solutions allow manufacturers to accurately predict how their designs will behave in their intended environments, without having to build and test multiple physical prototypes.

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PTC
PTC's solutions provide comprehensive tools for ensuring products are designed strategically, built efficiently, and presented accurately.

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Schlumberger
Schlumberger is the world's leading supplier of technology, project management, and information solutions to the oil and gas industry.

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Sopheon
Sopheon's Accolade automates the gate- or phase-based product innovation process. This provides the strategic decision-making support needed to determine which product ideas to advance and which to kill, reducing your overall business risk.

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UGS
UGS specializes in PLM software and services. Their offerings include product development, enterprise collaboration, product data management, and planning applications; their Teamcenter solution provides a secure environment for collaboration.

Plant operations solutions

Put technology systems in place that help your people manage plant processes, track execution and production, ensure product quality, optimize up-time, and reduce costs.

View partners who offer plant operations solutions

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ABB
ABB's Industrial IT (information technology) is an integrated suite of applications, control hardware, and field devices that enable manufacturing, process, and power industry customers to achieve continuous and sustainable productivity improvements.

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Activplant
Activplant is a scalable Web-based enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI) solution designed to collect data from almost any source on the factory floor and integrate the information with business logic, reporting capabilities, analysis, and intelligent discovery through alerts.

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Applied Materials
Applied Materials' automated factory-level and tool-level control solutions include manufacturing execution systems (MES) software, fabrication management applications, diagnostic and fault detection systems—all designed to help companies manage, control, and automate all aspects of their fabrication and tool operations.

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Apriso
Apriso's FlexNet platform provides visibility, adaptability, and real-time control of manufacturing operations across the enterprise and supply chain network. This is accomplished by integrating planning, execution, and control; increasing operational efficiency; and eliminating errors in the production process.

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AspenTech
AspenTech's Plantelligence suite of products and services help optimize the design, operation, and management of process plants and their supply chains.

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Brooks Software
Brooks' real-time manufacturing application suite deploys an event-based architecture designed to synchronize production with market demand in real-time.

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Camstar
Camstar's enterprise manufacturing execution and quality systems provide the electronic control needed to help eliminate scrap, rework, and paperwork errors and deliver the real-time feedback needed to quickly identify and resolve issues that inhibit process and product improvement.

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Citect
Citect provides solutions for industrial automation, real-time intelligence, building automation, next generation MES and on-demand benchmarking. Leveraging open technologies, Citect connects to multiple plant and business systems.

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Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process Management helps businesses automate their production, processing, and distribution in the chemical, oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, power, water and wastewater treatment, food and beverage, life science, and other industries.

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GE Fanuc
GE Fanuc supplies industrial automation solutions that collect, distribute, control, and visually present information from the plant floor throughout the enterprise.

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Honeywell
Honeywell's Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) helps manufacturers turn their resources into results and maximize operational efficiency. Guided by the principle that a single person can make an entire facility more effective, Honeywell aims to empower people with knowledge that will enhance their performance.

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Invensys
ArchestrA from Invensys helps companies create products, applications, and services to operate both old and new manufacturing plants more efficiently and profitably.

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McLaren Software
McLaren Software developes engineering-centric content management applications for the oil & gas, process manufacturing, utilities, life sciences, and engineering, design and construction sectors. A Microsoft Gold Partner, McLaren is an ISO 9000 accredited company with customers in 47 countires.

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OSIsoft
OSIsoft solutions are based on Web services that help connect a wide range of systems throughout the enterprise including vendor-managed inventory systems and PLM systems.

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Rockwell Automation
The Rockwell Software unit offers industrial automation and production management software. Its RSView32 is an integrated, component-based human-machine interface for process monitoring and automation.

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Siemens Energy & Automation
Siemens offers a range of process automation and industrial control solutions for the plant floor that can now be integrated with customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms for comprehensive business management.

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UGS
UGS' Tecnomatix Production Management extends the PLM footprint to the manufacturing shop floor.

Supply chain solutions

Enable manufacturing partners to work effectively together by providing tools for communicating with each other and managing inventory across the supply chain.