Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing is designed to deliver capabilities that support the core processes and requirements of the industry. These end-to-end manufacturing cloud solutions include released and new capabilities that help securely connect people, assets, workflow, and business processes, empowering organizations to be more resilient.
Digitally empower your workforce
Reskill your workers and increase customer satisfaction with new digital experiences.
Operate safe and agile factories
Build the productive, smart factory of the future with industrial IoT, cloud, AI, and mixed reality.
Create more resilient supply chains
Improve end-to-end supply chain visibility, agility, and profitability through intelligent planning and execution, demand sensing, and traceability.
Unlock innovation and new services
Accelerate the engineering of new business value using digital feedback loops and digital twins.
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Empower your workforce with smart manufacturing solutions
Digitally enable your next-generation workforce, equipping them with the skills and tools to safely keep up with the new complexities and speed of digital manufacturing.
Enable people and teams to be productive from anywhere
Connect frontline workers, office workers, and customers with the secure collaboration and information management tools needed to support remote work.
Redefine training, engagement, and knowledge transfer
Quickly onboard employees and help them continuously build skills with custom, role-based learning paths.
Create the agile factory of the future
Drive new levels of agility, safety, productivity, and innovation using IoT, cloud-based computing, AI, and mixed reality.
Simplify industrial IoT and OT security
Protect industrial IoT and OT environments with continuous asset discovery, vulnerability management, and threat detection.
Connect people, products, and processes
Provide a 360-degree view of overall plant systems and workflow that allows operators to analyze problems and enhance workflow efficiency.
Improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
Build agile factories and smart manufacturing processes with predictive technologies, IoT, and mixed reality to improve throughput, quality, and delivery while reducing costs.
Optimize smart manufacturing processes with AI
Improve production efficiency and reduce downtime—without the need for data scientists—using AI-powered automation and manufacturing cloud solutions.
Improve supply chain resilience and minimize supply chain disruption
Connect internal and external supply chain, customer, and market data to drive supply chain visibility, optimize your planning, and intelligently manage your inventory needs.
Build resilience with an agile supply chain
Predict and overcome disruptions fast, enhance visibility, improve planning, and maximize asset productivity with a digital supply chain.
Build more predictability into your operations
Unify data across systems in your supply chain to drive agility and respond quickly to market changes without sacrificing innovation and speed—using intelligent business apps and advanced analytics.
Build and deliver new products and services
Accelerate innovation by designing, simulating, and validating products through digital twins and manufacturing cloud solutions.
Build digital twins and digital thread capability for your products and services
Create a digital representation of real-world things, places, business processes, and people.
Deliver effective customer outcomes
Improve customer satisfaction, engagement, and profit margins by helping your marketers, sellers, and service agents understand the customer while engaging remotely and digitally across channels.
Streamline sales execution
Empower sales teams to close new and recurring revenue with speed, predictability, and profit.
Gain visibility into products and services
Enable teams to exceed service expectations by predicting, detecting, and resolving service issues before your customers even know there’s a problem.
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