manufacturing automation

Microsoft published a May 13, 2026 industrial AI feature showing how ARUM, Cemex, Beca and Obeikan are using Azure, Microsoft Foundry, Copilot and related services to turn scarce expertise, fragmented data and factory-floor bottlenecks into software-mediated workflows. The argument hiding inside...

Manufacturing’s next competitive battleground is no longer just plant efficiency or ERP hygiene; it is the speed and quality of decisions made across the value chain. Microsoft’s latest Dynamics 365 message, timed to Hannover Messe 2026, argues that agentic ERP can help manufacturers respond...

Hexagon Robotics’ new partnership with Microsoft signals a pragmatic push to get industrial humanoid robots off the lab bench and onto factory floors, combining Hexagon’s sensor-rich AEON platform with Microsoft’s cloud scale and real-time intelligence services to tackle inspection...