Microsoft is powering manufacturing’s 2026 inflection point—turning AI from pilots into orchestrated, end‑to‑end intelligence.
We at Microsoft are continuously innovating and evolving our industry cloud solutions to meet the needs of our customers and are very excited to showcase the power of having an industry-focused approach at Microsoft Ignite.
Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing at the Microsoft Ignite event will discuss the benefits for accelerating development of factory applications, as well as other topics addressed in the IoT Manufacturing Spotlight.
For this edition of the report IoT Signals: Manufacturing Spotlight Microsoft, Intel, and IoT Analytics surveyed 500 decision makers working on digital transformation initiatives in discrete, hybrid, or process manufacturing across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
The Microsoft partner ecosystem plays a central role in our joint customers’ success and allows us to scale more quickly. Our partners develop innovative solutions across a range of industries and lead customers on their digital imperatives journey.
In today’s fast-paced manufacturing world, the ability to adapt quickly to rapid change is a defining factor between manufacturers that merely survive and those that thrive. As they face ongoing challenges like rising costs, supply chain issues, and skills gaps, many manufacturers are building agile, smart factories to ensure a resilient and sustainable future.
I’m looking forward to the Cloud Wars Expo, set for June 28 to 30, 2022, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This is a premier cloud-centric event in the market, and we will be joining several other providers and have the opportunity to connect with our customers and partners.
After more than three years, we were excited to join global leaders and our manufacturing colleagues in Hannover, Germany at the world’s biggest trade show for industrial technology, Hannover Messe 2022. Since we last met, Microsoft has released new solutions and capabilities to help our customers and partners thrive through this disruptive era.
Supply chain resilience, or the ability of companies to adapt to unforeseen challenges in production and distribution, has come into the spotlight due to COVID-19.
It’s been a long three years since we last invited you to join us at the manufacturer’s primary showcase event Hannover Messe in Germany, where we last mingled in person in 2019 with 220,000 of our manufacturing colleagues from around the world to share and explore the leadership and innovations on display.
Welcoming travelers back while still absorbing the shockwaves of COVID-19 has spurred a digital evolution for the travel and tourism industry. A rapid move to the cloud offers new ways of reaching customers—and introduces new risks. Travel and tourism organizations hold sensitive customer information, in addition to proprietary business data.
To keep up with the fast pace of digital manufacturing trends, today’s manufacturers need to build a capable workforce that can adapt quickly to new ways of working. However, studies show that many manufacturers are concerned about the challenges of attracting, retaining, and training effective employees.
In today’s shifting manufacturing landscape, customer engagement is critical for organizations that want to gain an edge. In fact, 86 percent of manufacturers say that improving customer experience is a key differentiator1.
