Read on to find out how you can accelerate your digital manufacturing transformation
The means of production has fundamentally transformed in recent times as manufacturers evolve into digitally-connected, tech-enabled operations.
The Smart Factory of the Future
Accelerating Digital Manufacturing Transformation
HSO work in collaboration with manufacturing companies like yours to drive better outcomes like cost reduction, cost avoidance, increased market share and customer intimacy, employee retention and reskilling.
We use the power of Microsoft technology to optimize your business processes and help you to take advantage of all the data available to you.
Become a Smart Factory of the Future and work with our experts to accelerate digital manufacturing transformation:
- Drive intelligent outcomes from the data you already have
- Connect your customers, supply chain and partners
- Provide improved visibility across your organisation
- Automate and streamline your business processes
Gain complete control and visibility over your business from the factory floor to your customer’s door
Accelerate digital manufacturing transformation with a fully connected and flexible platform based upon your requirements, timeframe, and your budget with HSO manufacturing powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Six modern technology trends helping manufacturers to work smarter
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Connected Data
With the introduction of digital technologies, the use and collection of data has taken on new importance for manufacturers. Data from inside and outside the factory now has real value.
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Resilient Supply Chain
Resilience is about managing risk, its about understanding the likely challenges and having strategies place that mitigate or simply avoid those risks.
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Connect your business
Can your business be operated by most staff from anywhere? With a connected business almost all, (non-physical) aspects can be managed from anywhere with your team simply requiring an internet connection. Allowing your suppliers and partners to connect will help you to reduce their costs and allows your team to focus on offering value added activities.
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Workforce Management
Skills and the development of the workforce is key to sustaining a business and watching it thrive.
Empowering your teams to self-serve in their HR environment is now a minimum expectation of a modern business. But what drives business forward is the ability to be proactive in employee training and development to ensure you have correctly trained and skilled individuals to ensure compliance and capability whenever and wherever you need it.
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Customer Engagement
An accurate real-time picture of the status of your employee/customer/supplier relationships using Customer Engagement (CRM) technology, will provide you with insights so that you can drive performance and efficiency across your organisation. Capturing all customer communication allows you to validate your assumptions on where your strong relationships might be and drive increased customer satisfaction, loyalty and revenue for your business.
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Digital Innovation
Digital innovation is the secret source that unlocks the full potential of your business.
There are many digital tools at your disposal. Talk to HSO about how to take advantage of some or all of the components and innovative new ways to improve your service offerings, drive efficiency, profitability and sustainability of your business.
Smart Factory of the Future Expert View – Driving value across every area of your factory
In our Smart Factory of the Future Expert View series, we discuss how technology can help you to overcome some of the most important manufacturing and service industry challenges.
Learn how to realise the business benefits across the entire manufacturing value chain.
Manufacturing Success Stories
See how HSO is helping Manufacturing businesses like yours leverage a wide range of business applications designed to help your company achieve results.
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Additional Resources for Manufacturers
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Manufacturing Success Story: Kohler
How the Microsoft Cloud is Modernizing Manufacturing
The Top Trends About the Future of Manufacturing Every Leader Should Know
Three in Four Manufacturers Rank Their Production Processes as "Highly Agile"
How Manufacturers are Preparing for the Future Through Digital Transformation
Industry Report: Why Manufacturers are Adopting New IoT and Smart Factory Technologies
What’s Driving the Factory of the Future?
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2022 Manufacturing Agility Assessment
How to Future-proof Your Business with the Microsoft Cloud and HSO
D2C eCommerce in Manufacturing: How a Direct-to-Consumer model powers manufacturing
Reimagine, Reinvent, Realize: Your Factory of the Future
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On-Demand Webcast: How the Microsoft Cloud is Modernizing Manufacturing
Learn from industry experts at Microsoft and HSO about the benefits of the Microsoft Cloud and how it’s enabling factories of the future
Navigating Sustainability Regulations: Mitigating Risk for US-Based Manufacturers with Global Operations
