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The next evolution of manufacturing: The industrial metaverse

To accelerate innovation, get new products more efficiently to market, and reduce costs without sacrificing quality and function, manufacturers need to adopt the Industrial Metaverse. That means using capabilities such as AI, mixed reality, and digital twins to strip costs out of product development and refinement. When you can predict the performance of products even before they are prototyped, you take an enormous step forward in time-to-market while potentially reducing costs by orders of magnitude.

In the Industrial Metaverse, product development is streamlined through cloud-based computer-aided design (CAD) and product lifecycle applications. By creating a digital loop of your operations, production cycles can become faster and less cost intensive. The use cases span the entire manufacturing ecosystem:

  • Supply chain protection and optimization through predictive AI-enhanced computing and data analysis
  • More efficient inventory and ordering control as well as better pricing using cloud computing and federated learning powered and secured by confidential computing
  • Improved design and engineering through digital twin and remote collaboration anywhere in the world for more extensive testing and validation of product designs
  • Training and skilling employees by giving them remote access to expert skills and virtual training

From AI to cloud to mixed reality, at Microsoft, we’re focused on the Industrial Metaverse and we’re not alone. The solutions and platforms our partners bring to the marketplace leverage the vast capabilities of Microsoft to deliver innovations for high-performance compute, analytics, visualization, inventory and supply chain control, as well as logistics and coordination. And it’s all powered by the latest AI innovations and designed to future-proof our customers.

Explore this curated directory for a deeper look at how the Microsoft partner ecosystem is equipped to help you stay ahead of the many opportunities and challenges your manufacturing company will face in this fast-moving time. 

Click below to find proven solutions—all optimized to run on Azure—to support your business at the pace of change.



Solutions Spotlight: Manufacturing - Unlock Innovation

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Digital technology is constantly transforming how businesses engage with their customers and employees. 

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The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform from Rockwell is a digital manufacturing system of record that connects, automates, tracks, and analyzes all aspects of your operation in real time, leading to more effective decision making.



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Security: Protecting innovation in the cloud

To do business in the cloud and protect sensitive innovations and data, manufacturers need high confidence that they are using best-of-breed security controls and monitoring to ensure more trustworthy cloud environments for current and future security. That means coordinated protection of information, identity, access, and threat identification.

Microsoft works with a global ecosystem of partners to help manufacturers synthesize complex signals, protect cloud operations, and deploy the latest AI innovation for unified protection and better decision making.

Below you’ll find key solution partners within our global ecosystem. Each partner has been thoroughly vetted and brings proven expertise in security for manufacturing organizations. Learn more about each of them to find the one that’s right for your challenges.

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DXC is helping the manufacturing industry unlock innovation, introduce new products, and prepare for the future.


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DXC Intelligent Boost is a next-generation IoT end-to-end platform that provides actionable analytics.


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HCLTech’s MVision framework re-imagines manufacturing and is primarily built on four tenets that focus on enabling Industry 4.0 aspects to drive business growth and improve the bottom line.

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HCLTech’s Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) solution helps manufacturing companies transform their CAX and PLM infrastructure into an on-demand, scalable, and agile environment to drive the business innovation needs for the new normal.

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The Real-Time Manufacturing Insights (RMI) solution provides real-time operational visibility from shop floor to top floor.

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Net Zero Intelligent Operations (NIO) solution 

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Intelligent Asset Tracking & Management (IATM) solution

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Johnson Controls OpenBlue Enterprise Manager

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Presidio is meeting Industry 4.0 head on, with a suite of solutions that improve logistics, productivity, speed-to-market, operational efficiency, and data insights. 

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PwC Factory Intelligence - A new perspective onto the company's effectiveness.


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The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform from Rockwell is a digital manufacturing system of record that connects, automates, tracks, and analyzes all aspects of your operation in real time, leading to more effective decision making.


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Due to an increasing number of cyber-attacks on the US Defense supply chain, the US Department of Defense (DoD) has significantly increased cybersecurity regulations for the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), which is comprised of aerospace and defense contractors supporting the DoD. 

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TCS Cognitive Plant Operations (CPO) Adviser, developed by leveraging Microsoft Azure capabilities, helps in rapidly building and deploying cutting-edge digital solutions, and in unlocking the power of knowledge, data, and engineering sciences to make industrial plants intelligent and future-ready. 

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Experience intelligence. 

Companies don’t purchase products or services anymore. They embark into constructive experiences that help them to better manage their operations and processes while enriching their sense of satisfaction and improving the value of related outcomes. 


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