INDUSTRY
Microsoft for Manufacturing
Design, build, and operate with AI.
OVERVIEW
See industrial AI in action
Drive innovation and accelerate workforce development with an AI-powered digital thread.
Unlock innovation and introduce new products
Embrace new design and manufacturing paradigms and prepare for the future with the industrial metaverse.
Create resilient supply chains
Ensure business continuity and reduce risk with a secure, agile, and connected supply chain that provides always-on visibility.
Enable intelligent factories
Automate manufacturing, ensure safe and reliable production, and empower your workforce with industrial IoT, data, and AI.
Modernize customer experiences
Increase customer satisfaction, profitability, and product lifespan with new digital tools for service operations.
CAPABILITIES
Achieve more with Microsoft for Manufacturing
Accelerate innovation, optimize operations, empower workers, and enhance customer experiences.
- Use Azure adaptive cloud solutions to modernize your edge infrastructure, getting it ready for AI.
- Transform 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.
- Quickly simulate scenarios for product design optimization, process improvement, and factory setup decisions with reduced data sampling.
- Boost agility, efficiency, and scalability by running product lifecycle management (PLM) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) workloads on the cloud.
- Build connectivity and intelligence into your products and launch new features and business models with a modern edge-to-cloud architecture.
- 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
Make the most of Microsoft for Manufacturing with docs and reference architectures that cover all its capabilities.
CUSTOMER STORIES
See how manufacturers are transforming
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PARTNER SOLUTIONS
Explore partner solutions
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
Combine physical and digital worlds to help visualize, simulate, and optimize industrial products, processes, and operations.
Discover valuable resources
E-book
• February 2025
Explore leading generative AI use cases to modernize manufacturing processes.
Video series
• February 2025
Industrial Transformation in the Era of AI
Analyst report
• April 2024
Take AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing
White paper
• 2024
Scale intelligent factory initiatives with an adaptive cloud approach
NEXT STEPS
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Documentation
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