{"id":6026,"date":"2018-05-08T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/industry\/blog\/manufacturing\/microsoft-azure-for-the-manufacturing-industry\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T16:20:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T23:20:41","slug":"microsoft-azure-for-the-manufacturing-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/manufacturing-and-mobility\/2018\/05\/08\/microsoft-azure-for-the-manufacturing-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure for the Manufacturing Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manufacturers are accelerating the use of cloud technologies throughout their operations. While manufacturers have always been among the earliest adopters of technology, they\u2019re moving faster than decades past. To stay competitive, investing in digital technologies has become the highest priority.<\/p>\n

Many manufacturers add line of business applications in the cloud. Starting with common industry solutions such as customer relationship management or human resource management. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Human Resource Management (HRM) solutions can be less-integrated with process and products making them easier to implement. Moving line of business applications, IT infrastructure, or other common services to the cloud removes the overhead of monthly maintenance and regular replacement. Setting the stage to explore additional opportunities for cost savings or productivity enhancements.<\/p>\n

Moving to the cloud quickly spreads to other departments such as Engineering, Manufacturing, and Services. Where most software vendors now provide cloud-based or cloud-enhanced solutions. Solutions for Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), or Internet of Things (IoT) on a subscription-based model are common and can provide more value to manufacturers versus on-premise solutions.<\/p>\n

To stay competitive, manufacturers need to integrate investments in Artificial Intelligence technologies such as Machine Learning or other technologies like IoT, or High-Performance Computing (HPC). These technology investments lead to increases in production outputs, decreases in production inputs, and new ways to capture value throughout the process.<\/p>\n

What tech investments offer the most for Manufacturers?<\/h2>\n

Like all companies reducing the overhead of managing technology, maintaining servers, and upgrading code is beneficial for manufacturers as well. Manufacturers find more value by focusing on technologies such as IoT, Machine Learning, Large-Scale Computing, Hybrid Clouds, and Blockchain.<\/p>\n

Internet of Things<\/h2>\n

IoT Implementations without a cloud offering is prohibitively difficult in most scenarios. Managing potentially thousands of devices from around the globe, streaming large quantities of data and then storing and processing the data in real or near-real-time is a task the cloud was specifically designed to perform. And Azure is designed to perform them in both Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS), making Azure the choice for Manufacturers.<\/p>\n

At the PaaS level, we have the Azure IoT Hub, the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service, the IoT Edge, Azure Stream Analytics, and the Azure IoT Suite.<\/p>\n