INDUSTRY
Microsoft for Manufacturing
Design, build, and operate with AI.
OVERVIEW
Industrial AI use cases
Drive innovation and accelerate workforce development with an AI-powered digital thread.
Digital engineering
Speed up design and R&D to cut costs, shorten cycles, and launch faster.
Intelligent factories
Turn data into insights by using AI to boost visibility and spot optimization opportunities.
Resilient supply chains
Strengthen your supply chain with data-driven planning across your organization.
Connected customers
Boost customer satisfaction by helping teams better understand their needs.
CAPABILITIES
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Accelerate product innovation, optimize operations, empower workers, and enhance customer experiences.
- Boost agility, efficiency, and scalability by running product lifecycle management (PLM) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) workloads on the cloud.
- Quickly simulate scenarios for product design optimization, process improvement, and factory setup decisions with reduced data sampling.
- Build connectivity and intelligence into your products using a modern edge-to-cloud architecture to launch new features and business models.
- Use Azure adaptive cloud solutions to modernize your factory edge infrastructure, getting it ready for AI.
- Transform factory production processes to increase quality, reduce costs, and gain flexibility with data and AI agents.
- Give your frontline workers industry-leading productivity and AI solutions to improve efficiency, professional development, and retention.
- Predict maintenance issues within the factory and automate complex quality inspection processes with AI-powered solutions.
- Unify data across systems in your supply chain to gain visibility and make fast decisions to avoid disruptions.
- Get clear insights from your data to create advanced demand forecasting models and optimize your supply chain planning.
- Optimize inventory allocation, achieve precise fulfillment, and modernize operations with solutions that get the most out of supply chain data.
- Help service agents deliver personalized service with mixed reality tools that provide real-time remote assistance and interactive instructions.
- Create innovative digital and physical experiences and proactively meet customer needs with 360-degree solutions that transform customer engagement.
Microsoft for Manufacturing
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CUSTOMER STORIES
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PARTNER SOLUTIONS
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Discover manufacturing offerings from trusted Microsoft partners.
PRODUCTS
Explore products for manufacturing
Find products to help you drive innovation and resilience as well as build modern factories and experiences.
Industrial transformation
Visualize, simulate, and optimize industrial products, processes, and operations—both physical and digital.
Discover valuable resources
E-book
• 2025
Explore AI use cases to modernize manufacturing processes
Video series
• 2025
Industrial Transformation in the Era of AI
Analyst report
• 2024
Take AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing
White paper
• 2024
Scale intelligent factory initiatives with an adaptive cloud approach
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