For more than a century, Swedish industrial giant SKF Group has been producing bearings, seals, and other solutions and services for global manufacturers. Already an industry leader, the company is now turning heads to the way it does business. One of the key growth enablers for the company is to digitalize the full value chain to make SKF easier to do business with and to enable SKF to make more intelligent decisions in its own operations. Digitalizing operations will power that shift to data-driven manufacturing, and to support this transformation, SKF partnered with Microsoft to deploy a hybrid cloud solution.
The solution starts at the intelligent edge, where SKF is bringing the power of the cloud to the factory with a combination of smart software and hardware. Using Azure Arc, SKF can gather and analyze data on the factory floor and get a unified view across its technology landscape, making management easier and less costly. Azure Stack HCI is the hyperconverged solution that provides validated hardware capable of running highly scalable virtual workloads. SKF is rolling out this new platform across its approximately 100 factories. In addition to the much-needed consistency that comes from standardizing its operations, SKF has also seen roughly 40 percent lower costs and a 30-percent reduction in machinery-related IT/OT downtime.
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