INDUSTRY
Microsoft Cloud 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, 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 Cloud for Manufacturing
Accelerate innovation, optimize operations, empower workers, and enhance customer experiences.
- Optimize production with actionable insights from a unified IT/OT data estate and prepare your data for AI with Microsoft Fabric.
- Enable natural language querying of unified IT and OT data with manufacturing data solutions in Microsoft Fabric.
- Interact with unified IT and OT data to uncover holistic insights with Factory Operations Agent in Azure AI Foundry.
- 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.
- Make quick decisions and avoid disruptions by unifying data across your supply chain.
- 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 Cloud for Manufacturing
Get industry-specific solutions that include:
- Data solutions, copilot templates, and connectors.
- AI solutions that transform how you design and build products, run your operations, and empower workers.
- Access to our extensive partner ecosystem.
CUSTOMER STORIES
See how manufacturers are transforming
PARTNER SOLUTIONS
Explore partner solutions
Discover manufacturing offerings from trusted Microsoft partnes.
PRODUCTS
Explore products for manufacturing
Find products to help you drive innovation and resilience and 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
eBook
• February 2025
Explore leading generative AI use cases to modernize manufacturing processes.
Analyst report
• April 2024
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing
White paper
• 2024
Scale intelligent factory initiatives with an adaptive cloud approach
Video series
• January 2025
Industrial Transformation in the Era of AI
NEXT STEPS
Start achieving more in manufacturing
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Documentation
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