Optimize and innovate: How digital twins transform manufacturing
Digital twins combine real-time data with cloud analytics to simulate products, assets, and processes so manufacturers can optimize production—and innovation.
Microsoft Industry Blogs: Manufacturing and mobility
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Partners powering AI transformation globally: Agentic solutions in action at ITAP 2025 and Microsoft Ignite 2025
Microsoft and its partners accelerate industrial AI innovations at ITAP 2025 and Microsoft Ignite 2025, driving manufacturing innovation and collaboration worldwide.
Connected cars: Revving up in-car customer experiences
Auto manufacturers use advanced navigation, entertainment and productivity solutions, predictive maintenance, and AI to create connected cars.
Increase R&D effectiveness and improve design quality
Manufacturers can uncover customer needs, strengthen engagement, and bring innovative products and services to market faster using digital technologies.
Predictive maintenance: How to avoid costly downtime
Manufacturers use data-generated intelligence to proactively schedule maintenance, improve production quality, and develop new revenue opportunities.
Better together: Collaborating with robots
Production lines that require variable work and repetitive tasks can be performed most efficiently when people collaborate with robots.
Hannover Messe 2017: Delivering digital manufacturing excellence with our partners
Read more about the innovation our partners will be driving at Hannover Messe 2017.
Energy-smart buildings: Use IoT to reduce your electric bill
Manufacturers can use ambient intelligence, context sensitivity, predictive management, automated operations to support energy-smart buildings.
How can you reduce maintenance costs with the digital factory?
Manufacturers that want to reduce costs and create more value can use digital technologies and predictive maintenance to avoid breakdowns and delays in production.
Use your data: Embrace Manufacturing 4.0
Manufacturers can now connect and transform millions of pieces of data into intelligence through the power of the cloud, the IoT, and machine learning.
Ready for digital transformation? Join Microsoft Services at HMI
Discover how Microsoft Services can help you unlock opportunities at the intersection of digital technology and the business, employee, and customer experience.
Hannover Messe Theater Schedule 2017
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Digital: Delivered: Today
Learn how Microsoft is partnering with Industry 4.0 leaders to build their digital enterprises of tomorrow; visit us at Hannover Messe 2017 to see this innovation in action.