What challenges did Mustang Machinery Company face before AI implementation?

Growing demand for heavy machinery and power systems, straining legacy processes. Difficulty maintaining timely service and operational efficiency under manual, fragmented workflows. Limited in-house technical resources to address complex business and manufacturing challenges. Need to rapidly digitize and scale custom workflows across teams while ensuring security and compliance.

Source

MicrosoftProductionEvidence: Medium50/100

Mustang Machinery boosts manufacturing output with Power Platform automation

Use case typeBusiness process automationUpdated Jun 13, 2026

Mustang Machinery Company, a leader in industrial products, partnered with PwC to meet rising demand and maintain high service and efficiency standards. By adopting Microsoft Power Platform—Power Apps, Dataverse, Power BI, Power Automate, and AI Builder—custom apps and workflow automations were developed with minimal coding. These digital tools provided employees with real-time assistance, streamlining manufacturing, service, scheduling, and management processes. Legacy, manual, and time-consuming operations were digitized, creating agility and scalability for business growth. Through Power BI, actionable, enterprise-wide data insights were surfaced, accelerating decision-making and further enhancing operational control. PwC guided governance, security, and training, supporting sustainable upskilling and citizen developer enablement across teams. As a result: manufacturing throughput increased by 150%, process backlogs were eliminated, and employee productivity surged. The approach proved cost efficient and rapidly deployable, setting the organization up for continued innovation.

Organization: Mustang Machinery Company
Industry: Manufacturing
Location: United States

Reported outcomes

Productivity: +150%

Productivity & throughput

Catalog median for productivity & throughput deployments: +40% across 100 reported metrics. Compare benchmarks →

Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks

Normalized claim

Quantified impact: 150% increase

pwc.comUnknownInferred claimMedium evidence strength

Increased manufacturing throughput by 150%.

Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks

Customer: Mustang Machinery Company
Provider: Microsoft
Maturity: Production
Linked source: pwc.com

Through Power BI, actionable, enterprise-wide data insights were surfaced, accelerating decision-making and further enhancing operational control

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported

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Use case focus

Showing 3 of 3

1Manufacturing Workflow Automation with Power Platform
2Citizen Developer Enablement in Industry
3Real-Time Data Insights for Operations

Implemented Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Dataverse, Power BI, Power Automate, AI Builder) to digitize and automate core manufacturing and business operations.
Developed custom, low-code digital assistants for employees to improve productivity and streamline scheduling and processes.
Adopted Power BI to centralize and analyze data, improving insight and accelerating decision-making.
Partnered with PwC for secure rollout and governance, as well as citizen developer enablement and sustained capability building.

Technologies

Power Platform Power Apps Dataverse Power BI Power Automate AI Builder

Implementation partners1

PwC

Sources & evidence1

Evidence: Medium50/100Evidence strength