Solve the IoT security paradox to unleash innovation
This blog is the second in a series highlighting our newest research, IoT Signals.
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Partners powering AI transformation globally: Agentic solutions in action at ITAP 2025 and Microsoft Ignite 2025
Microsoft and its partners accelerate industrial AI innovations at ITAP 2025 and Microsoft Ignite 2025, driving manufacturing innovation and collaboration worldwide.
How manufacturers became world leaders in IoT adoption
 This blog is the first in a series highlighting our newest research, IoT Signals.
Creating an open industrial IoT ecosystem
Global-efficiency dashboards. Predictive maintenance. Asset monitoring. New, digitally enabled lines of business. Automation companies, machine builders, and manufacturers are capitalizing on these and other industrial IoT (IIoT) capabilities to wring maximum value from their operations.
IDC MarketScape: Microsoft a leader in IIoT platforms for manufacturing and energy
Manufacturers, oil and gas companies, and utilities are vertical markets that we’ve seen go all-in on accelerating innovation through IoT.
Accelerating autonomous vehicle development
The automotive industry is looking to the cloud to scale autonomous innovation and activities. Microsoft’s Vijitha Chekuri shares more.
Industrial firm Bühler partners with Microsoft to forge a digital future
The Switzerland-based Bühler Group is a world leader in manufacturing sophisticated machines used in food processing and die casting. It’s almost certain that anyone reading this blog has eaten pasta or other foods processed with Bühler machines, or ridden in a car built with components cast on Bühler equipment.
thyssenkrupp embraces digital transformation for a better future
Technology is evolving at breakneck speed and many manufacturers are struggling to keep pace. But for companies that fail to innovate quickly, the consequences are dire—they’re putting their survival at risk.
Workforce transformation in the intelligent manufacturing era
Read highlights on how the manufacturing workforce is transforming to adopt new technologies, and skill their workforce.
State-of-the-art manufacturing: new skills, new roles, new possibilities
In previous posts in this series, we’ve discussed how IoT is changing the manufacturing industry, ways to use IoT data more effectively, and how to think beyond the factory floor when rolling out IoT technology.
Seizing market advantage: How manufacturers take IoT beyond the production line
Take a look at some typical manufacturing business functions and the role IoT is playing in helping them drive the bottom line.
Driving the future of mobility in the automotive industry
The automotive industry is rapidly transforming. With today’s breakthrough digital technologies, the pace of innovation has accelerated to Autobahn speeds, with seemingly no limits to where the industry can go.
Transform manufacturing with IoT part 2: putting data to work in manufacturing
By 2020, to increase speed, agility, efficiency, and innovation, 80 percent of manufacturers will need to extensively restructure, placing data at the center of their processes.