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April 17, 2024
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Accelerating industrial transformation with Microsoft AI solutions 

We are announcing the private preview of manufacturing data solutions in Fabric and copilot template for factory operations on Azure AI, under the Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing. These solutions help manufacturers unify their OT and IT data estate and accelerate and scale data transformation for AI on Fabric, our end-to-end analytics SaaS based platform.

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ABB and Microsoft put electric cars on a cloud 

The electric vehicle (EV) market is growing rapidly. Yet worldwide there are currently just 106,000 public EV charging stations for more than 1 million EVs. As the industry powers up to meet demand, global revenue from EV charging services is projected to grow from $152.6 million last year to $2.9 billion by 2023, according to Navigant Research. This represents a huge opportunity for companies to capture that revenue through new products, improved scalability and reduced maintenance costs.

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Extracting value from industrial IoT using a higher level of thinking 

I have discussed before that in order to talk about the value of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in manufacturing, we need to have a holistic view that includes the Industrial Internet of Things, the Internet of People and the Internet of Services (IIoT/P/S). I was recently asked by a client about the role of IIoT in the context of digital transformation of the enterprise.

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The future of design engineering 

Just as today’s technology innovations are helping transform products into a new world of connected solutions, they are also ushering in a new era of how we design. Simon Floyd explains how Microsoft HoloLens is unlocking new possibilities in design engineering
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A new way of thinking 

Microsoft’s Enrique Andaluz discusses how manufacturers today are transitioning from offering products to offering those products as digital services.

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How IoT enables smart agriculture 

In my last blog, I shared a powerful story of how ThyssenKrupp Elevator is driving an Industry 4.0-type transformation. We are observing similar kind of digital transformation within industries like agriculture, too. The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way we grow and cultivate our food.