{"id":125554,"date":"2022-06-08T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=446402"},"modified":"2022-06-08T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T11:00:21","slug":"pg-and-microsoft-co-innovate-to-build-the-future-of-digital-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/08\/pg-and-microsoft-co-innovate-to-build-the-future-of-digital-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"P&G and Microsoft co-innovate to build the future of digital manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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P&G and Microsoft announce collaboration to build the future of digital manufacturing. Photo courtesy of P&G<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Microsoft technology empowers scalability for consumer products leader<\/i><\/h3>\n

CINCINNATI and REDMOND, Wash. \u2014 June 8, 2022 \u2014<\/strong> On Wednesday, The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) (P&G) and Microsoft Corp. announced a new multiyear collaboration that will leverage the Microsoft Cloud to help create the future of digital manufacturing at P&G.<\/p>\n

The two companies will co-innovate to accelerate and expand P&G\u2019s digital manufacturing platform and leverage the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to bring products to consumers faster, increase customer satisfaction and improve productivity to reduce costs.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTogether with Microsoft, P&G intends to make manufacturing smarter by enabling scalable predictive quality, predictive maintenance, controlled release, touchless operations and manufacturing sustainability optimization \u2014 which has not been done at this scale in the manufacturing space to date. At P&G, data and technology are at the heart of our business strategy and are helping create superior consumer experiences. This first-of-its-kind co-innovation agreement will digitize and integrate data to increase quality, efficiency and sustainable use of resources to help deliver those superior experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"P&G<\/a>\u201cTogether with Microsoft, P&G intends to make manufacturing smarter by enabling scalable predictive quality, predictive maintenance, controlled release, touchless operations and manufacturing sustainability optimization \u2014 which has not been done at this scale in the manufacturing space to date,\u201d said P&G CIO Vittorio Cretella. \u201cAt P&G, data and technology are at the heart of our business strategy and are helping create superior consumer experiences. This first-of-its-kind co-innovation agreement will digitize and integrate data to increase quality, efficiency and sustainable use of resources to help deliver those superior experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Microsoft Azure as the foundation, the new collaboration marks the first time that P&G can digitize and integrate data from more than 100 manufacturing sites around the world and enhance its AI, machine learning and edge computing services for real-time visibility. This will enable P&G employees to analyze production data and leverage artificial intelligence to immediately make decisions that drive improvement and exponential impact. Accessing this level of data, at scale, is rare within the consumer goods industry.<\/p>\n

P&G selected Microsoft as its preferred cloud provider to build the future of digital manufacturing based on a four-year history of successfully working together on data and AI. The new collaborative effort will:<\/p>\n