Microsoft showcases cloud-based IoT for Indian manufacturing

Tech gaint, Microsoft India, hosted a conference today with its partner ISVs and their clients to showcase the use of cloud-based IoT solutions for digital transformation in the Indian manufacturing sector. ISVs such as Precimetrix, Teramatrix and Covacsis and clients such as KEC International Ltd and Samudra participated to discuss where industry 4.0 is headed. This cloud not only offers reliability and scalability but also provides advanced cloud services like Machine Learning, IoT Suite, and Cortana Intelligence Suite. The participants discussed and showcased solutions aimed at transforming the Indian manufacturing industry digitally and help create digital, intelligent and predictive factories in the Indian industry.

“Microsoft along with its partners is helping manufacturing industries gain insights and make better decisions. Our complete suite of technology solutions including Azure Machine Learning, Cortana Intelligence Suite and IoT Solutions Suite as well as partners like Covacsis, Precimetrix, Teramatix, ZingHR, Knolskape among others, are capable of supporting any manufacturer of any size transform digitally,” said Narendra Bhandari, General Manager, Developer Experience and Evangelism, Microsoft.

“We are excited to provide the Digital transformation platform for our partners to innovate and build on our Hyper Secure and Hyper Scalable cloud,” he added. Additionally, the company stated that the focus will be on reinventing productivity and business processors, creating more personal computing and building skill able and secure cloud platform.

Key pillars for digital transformation:

Engaging with customers: According to the Microsoft, this helps in building tailored customer experiences by harnessing data and draw actionable insights to achieve a segment of one. Covacsis offers a platform which provides a 360° visibility of the manufacturing floor in real time. Empowering Employees: Microsoft claims to work with a lot of its partners to offer solutions that help organizations achieve more by designing an intelligent, flexible, and secure workplace. Some of these offerings are provided by partners like ZingHR, Vymo, Qustn, Knolskape, Symphony Summitt. Optimizing business operations: Precimetrix offers IoT and analytics that enables real-time process management and actionable analytic to improve productivity, efficiency and compliance. Transforming product: It helps organizations differentiate and capture emerging opportunities by using data as a strategic asset and shifting from hindsight to foresight. Teramatrix offers an IoT software platform that enables companies to connect with their fixed or mobile infrastructure and analyze the massive data streams emanating from them.