Keep up with the mobile worker—and help transform manufacturing
To stay competitive in this digital age, manufacturers need to empower people and increase agility with new processes. Enabling the mobile worker is essential to making your business more effective and flexible. A mobile worker is any employee who can work from anywhere, on a smartphone, tablet, PC, laptop, or other device, with access to all the tools and data they need to work effectively with colleagues inside and outside their organization.
In manufacturing, that’s a field technician, engineer, inspector, floor supervisor, or anybody who works in or across production environments to operate, monitor, or maintain equipment or processes, often in demanding, sometimes hazardous conditions. From supply chain and logistics to sales and customer service, mobile workers will transform manufacturing. The real question is whether your business will keep up.
Not just mobile devices: mobile people
With data from automated sensors, predictive analytics, mobile alerts, and remote diagnostics, field services teams can proactively maintain equipment and processes on a factory floor, in an oil or gas field, or across multiple facilities. If necessary, mobile technicians can react swiftly to faults—before they become failures—and avoid or minimize lockdowns.
As a business grows to join the global economy, it has to be prepared for all-day, every-day collaboration across continents. To paraphrase Satya Nadella, that takes more than mobile devices; it takes mobile people.
Mobile workers can operate across time zones, not tied to a desk, with seamless access to all the schematics, drawings, specifications, test data, and analytics they need. Beyond that, they can form networks that connect suppliers, designers, engineers, production lines, and value chains around the world. That empowers collaboration across regions and disciplines, and helps organizations make better, faster decisions.
Global innovation and ginormous productivity
When line workers, engineers, and managers can collaborate routinely within the same building or across the globe, it’s easier to improve processes and increase productivity. Manufacturers can accelerate innovation and launch new products quickly, even with the engineering team in one place, design in another, and production in a third.
Studies have found that a truly mobile worker can gain up to 45 minutes a day in productivity. Multiply that by your whole organization, every day, and it’s pretty ginormous.
We can help you empower the mobile worker
Microsoft understands mobile worker, and we offer world-class mobility, cloud, big data, analytics, and collaboration solutions and services.
You can find lots of service providers that know these technologies. At Microsoft Services, we own them, and we’ve planned, executed, and evaluated mobile worker solutions for ourselves and scores of manufacturing customers. We combine that deep experience with a proven, holistic methodology, to deploy the right technologies and the right mobile worker solutions for your business.
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