Normalized claim
Image recognition time: 4-6 seconds decrease
image recognition reduced to 34 seconds, as opposed to 4 to 6 hours using the manual method
Manufacturing a better future: Microsoft announces intelligent industry innovations
Use case typeIndustrial assistantUpdated Mar 28, 2019
Microsoft announced new intelligent manufacturing innovations at Hannover Messe 2019, including updates to Azure Security Center for IoT, Azure Sentinel, Azure IoT Hub integration, OPC Twin and OPC Vault in the Azure Industrial IoT Cloud Platform, Connected Factory enhancements, and mixed reality solutions for manufacturing customers. The announcement highlighted customer examples such as Siemens Gamesa using Azure AI to reduce turbine inspection from hours to seconds, Electrolux launching a connected appliance quickly, Bühler improving food safety and production efficiency, and ZEISS using cloud-connected spectroscopy for quality insights.
- Organization
- Siemens Gamesa
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Location
- United States
- Published
- March 2019
Reported outcomes
4-6 seconds
image recognition timeTime & speed
Strategic outcomes
Other strategic outcomeImproved manufacturing security, productivity, and efficiencyBetter decisions & insightEnabled real-time quality insights from production data
Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- Siemens Gamesa, Electrolux, Bühler, ZEISS
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Maturity
- Scaled Production
- Linked source
- Microsoft Blog
Make Industrial IoT deployments more secure and easier to manage at scale while supporting digital twins and connected factory scenarios
Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported
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Use case focus
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- 1Industrial assistant
- 2Predictive maintenance
- 3Compliance monitoring
- Optimize operations, improve production efficiency, strengthen security, and empower the manufacturing workforce.
- Make Industrial IoT deployments more secure and easier to manage at scale while supporting digital twins and connected factory scenarios.
- Microsoft introduced end-to-end IoT security features across devices, hubs, and cloud resources.
- The company added OPC Twin and OPC Vault to create digital twins and automate certificate management for OPC UA-enabled machines.
- Microsoft also showcased AI, mixed reality, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and Azure Data Box Edge for manufacturing use cases.
- Siemens Gamesa reduced wind turbine image recognition to 34 seconds versus 4 to 6 hours manually.
- The solutions were positioned to help manufacturers achieve increased security, productivity, and efficiency.
- ZEISS enabled real-time quality insights from spectroscopic production data.
Architecture
Microsoft announced manufacturing solution updates spanning Azure Security Center for IoT, Azure Sentinel, Azure IoT Hub integration, OPC Twin, OPC Vault, Connected Factory enhancements, Azure Industrial IoT Cloud Platform, and mixed reality tools such as HoloLens 2, with customer examples using Azure AI and cloud-connected production data flows.
Sources & evidence1
Evidence: Medium50/100Evidence strength
- Customer explicitly identified
- Deployment status explicitly supported
- Quantified outcome available
- Technical implementation details available
Type: Blog PostPublished: Mar 28, 2019Publisher: MicrosoftEvidence: VendorConfidence: High
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