Sight Machine on Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing Brings Contextualized Manufacturing Data into the Data Estate
April 17 2024 - 12:01PM
Sight Machine Inc., provider of the leading platform for
manufacturing data and industrial AI, today introduced a
manufacturing data solution for integrating contextualized
production data into Microsoft Fabric.
The ease and simplicity that Sight Machine on Microsoft Cloud
for Manufacturing currently provides in aggregating,
contextualizing and understanding data now extends to production
data managed in Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft’s end-to-end unified
analytics platform, including for industrial networks that follow
the ISA-95 standard.
Bringing Sight Machine’s data and its analytics tools, including
Factory CoPilot, into Microsoft Fabric enables companies to combine
and analyze contextualized manufacturing data with financial,
supply chain, ERP and MES data, enabling unprecedented levels of
knowledge and enterprise-wide insight.
“Until now, industrial companies have been unable to incorporate
their plant floor data as a first-class citizen in the enterprise
data estate,” said Sight Machine CEO and Co-Founder Jon Sobel.
“With Sight Machine on Microsoft Fabric, companies are able to use
plant floor data just as easily and powerfully as they use other
data: to optimize production globally, determine which equipment is
best at fulfilling an order, know which lines are at highest risk
of going down, see the current status of orders, and determine when
to re-route them to another facility. It has never been possible to
do this in a truly data-driven way.”
Sight Machine’s Manufacturing Data Platform (MDP) helps global
manufacturers unlock the power of industrial data to increase
profitability, productivity and sustainability. Sight Machine’s
manufacturing data solution in Microsoft Fabric is available via
Azure Marketplace.
In addition, Sight Machine’s Factory Transform component, which
transforms plant data into AI-ready models of the production
process, is now available for other independent software vendors
and systems integrators to use with their customers on Microsoft
Cloud for Manufacturing.
Microsoft Fabric integrates technologies like Azure Data
Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI into a single
unified product, empowering data and business professionals alike
to unlock the potential of their data and lay the foundation for
the era of AI. By unifying these services into a single SaaS
offering for data management, governance and other shared services,
Microsoft Fabric reduces complexity and lowers the total cost of
ownership.
Sight Machine on Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing structures
and contextualizes raw manufacturing data, making it understandable
to all users and to AI tools, such as Sight Machine’s Factory
CoPilot. Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing data solutions enable
generative AI capabilities on all data incorporated into Fabric via
Microsoft Copilot templates which accelerate issue resolution and
improve productivity with natural language querying of unified
IT-OT data estate.
“Manufacturing data solutions in Microsoft Fabric help
industrial customers integrate their AI-ready Sight Machine data
into their data estates more easily than ever before,” said Dominik
Wee, Corporate Vice President, Manufacturing and Mobility at
Microsoft Corp. “Making contextualized production data available
for enterprise-wide usage is a big step toward achieving the
promise of smart manufacturing.”
About Sight Machine
Sight Machine helps global manufacturers unlock the power of
industrial data to increase profitability, productivity and
sustainability. Through its data-first approach, Sight Machine’s
Manufacturing Data Platform creates a common data foundation by
capturing and contextualizing data from the entire factory to
deliver a systemwide view of the manufacturing process. Data
becomes democratized, empowering all stakeholders to drive
productivity improvements across the enterprise. With systemwide
visibility and artificial-intelligence-powered insights,
manufacturers can now scale efficiency, quality and sustainability
solutions across entire production processes and multi-factory
sites, and even extend the impact to their broader supply and value
chains. Sight Machine has offices in San Francisco and Ann Arbor,
Mich. (www.sightmachine.com).
Sight Machine Press Contact: Media@sightmachine.com