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Hannover Messe 2021: What’s next for manufacturing 

  • Author avatar of Colin Masson
    By Colin MassonGlobal Industry Marketing Director, Manufacturing
Its been a challenging year for manufacturers, but also an exciting one, as they’ve been able to respond and adapt by accelerating their digital transformation journeys—and as you’ll hear from Microsoft leaders, customers, and partners at Hannover Messe 2021: Digital Edition—the benefits of digitalization are no longer questioned, it’s now about accelerating time to value,...Read more
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How to avoid vendor lock-in and guide your Industrial IoT solutions 

Since we started the Azure Industrial IoT team six years ago, one topic that tends to dominate the business decision-maker meetings I’ve participated in: vendor lock-in. Vendor lock-in is the inability to pick the best solution and instead be forced to pick the solution from a vendor you have used in the past to maintain...Read more
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How to conduct virtual Kaizen Events using Microsoft Teams 

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    By Gul MariamProgram Manager – Manufacturing, Microsoft Teams
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    Sonia FenskeSenior Program Manager – Microsoft Teams Engineering
This blog has been co-authored with Yury Gomez, Business Strategy Leader, WW Manufacturing While the manufacturing industry has long been one of the leaders driving digital innovation, helping to fuel growth and redefine efficiencies, today’s disruptions—whether these are travel restrictions, increased health & safety precautions, or a new world of modern work—are challenging the traditional approaches used to facilitate agile process...Read more
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Top 5 things to see and do at Hannover Messe Digital Edition 

  • Author avatar of Colin Masson
    By Colin MassonGlobal Industry Marketing Director, Manufacturing
It’s been two years since we last invited you to join us at Hannover Messe in Germany, where we mingled with 220,000 of our manufacturing colleagues from around the world to share and explore the leadership and innovations on display. Since then we’ve built on our theme of augmenting human intelligence from Hannover Messe 2019, helping manufacturers accelerate their digital...Read more
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Introducing Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing 

Filled with unimaginable change caused by the pandemic, the manufacturing industry witnessed a perfect storm: a significant disruption in terms of business continuity, operational visibility, remote work, employee safety, and the list goes on. However, manufacturers have responded and are continually adapting as we all go through the recovery process. To help you accelerate this journey, announcing the Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing, available for public preview...Read more
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Addressing the skills gap in manufacturing’s new normal 

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    By Colin MassonGlobal Industry Marketing Director, Manufacturing
Can digitization address the manufacturing skills gap and worker safety? Even before the pandemic, manufacturing has been changing so quickly that it can be difficult for your workforce to keep up. In fact, Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute had estimated that up to 2.4 million US manufacturing jobs could remain unfilled between 2018 and 2028 because of a lack of adequate skills.1  According to a Deloitte...Read more
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Improve supply chain resiliency, traceability, and predictability with blockchain 

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    By Cliff HensonCliff Henson, CVP, Capacity, Supply Chain & Provisioning
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    Yorke Rhodes IIIDirector Strategy and Transformation, Cloud Supply Chain
Introduction “Many new technologies have transformed the supply chain industry over the years; however, persistent problems remained, such as lack of traceability, especially for raw materials, and a lack of trust in data across parties. Our team has applied a new blockchain-based solution to solve these and many other supply chain challenges across our cloud...Read more
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Industry 4.0: IoT key to building agile factories of the future 

The global marketplace is evolving rapidly, and the ability to adapt is a defining factor between manufacturers that merely survive, and those that thrive. As rising costs, supply chain issues, skills gaps, and challenges related to COVID-19 escalate, manufacturers must look to intelligent cloud and intelligent edge solutions to build smart, agile factories. Internet of...Read more
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Manufacturers gain a competitive advantage with digital twins 

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    By Amol AdgaonkarIndustry Solutions Director, Worldwide Discrete Manufacturing, Microsoft
In 1970 NASA faced a crisis: A ruptured propellant tank threatened the lives of three astronauts aboard Apollo 13. To save them, NASA engineers used a replica of Apollo 13 on earth, and used resources they knew were available to the astronauts to devise a safe method for getting them home. Today that same approach,...Read more
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Creators wanted to manufacture a resilient and sustainable future 

As a National Sponsor for MFG Day, the manufacturing team at Microsoft is proud to join the #CreatorsWanted movement to fill the skills gap and inspire a diverse workforce with intelligent and data-driven manufacturing. Intelligent manufacturing is shaping our future in exciting ways that enable manufacturers to digitally transform to achieve growth and exceptional customer...Read more
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Kennametal is on the cutting edge of manufacturing 

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    By Colin MassonGlobal Industry Marketing Director, Manufacturing
Current market conditions are demonstrating how heavily the world relies on manufacturers’ abilities to operate agile factories and resilient supply chains. One great illustration of the critical role of manufacturers is explained in the inside story of how a group of rival companies came together to make ventilators for the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic....Read more