Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing
3 use cases using this technology
Schneider Electric fast-tracks innovation with Azure OpenAI Service
Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric bases customer-facing AI solutions on Azure OpenAI Service within Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing. Its EcoStruxure Microgrid Advisor uses Azure OpenAI Service and Azure IoT for dynamic control of facility energy performance, EcoStruxure Resource Advisor Copilot helps customers manage energy usage, and the company is developing a PLC code generation copilot to automate programmable logic controller programming for manufacturing robots and IoT devices.
Schaeffler unlocks factory insights with Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing
Schaeffler
Schaeffler, a global motion technology company with 10,000+ employees in Germany, worked with partner Avanade to pilot data solutions in Microsoft Fabric and a generative AI agent in Azure AI, part of Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing, to unlock intelligence across diverse IT/OT systems (including ERP, SCM and MES) across a solution designed to scale to over 100 plants. Employees now ask the agent natural-language questions and get near real-time insights such as scrap rates, yields and energy usage; for example, asking what caused downtime on a line yields an instant detailed response instead of engineers spending hours investigating.
HARTING reduces design time from weeks to minutes with Siemens and Azure AI
HARTING
HARTING, a German maker of industrial connectors with more than 27,000 product options, built an AI-guided Han® Configurator powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing that lets customers describe requirements in natural language and get guided to the right product in about one minute, down from 15-20 minutes. For custom designs, a companion tool built by HARTING's Innovation Hub interoperates with Siemens' NX and Simcenter (part of Siemens Xcelerator) to refine 2D layouts, generate 3D models and run basic thermal FEM simulations, cutting custom prototype creation from weeks to minutes.