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Microsoft Power BI
in Manufacturing
Discover new efficiencies with
data-driven analytics and insights
Embracing the transforming
manufacturing landscape

Digital transformation has created a wave of

opportunity for manufacturing businesses.
Industry leaders have embraced the new digital
landscape with data-driven tools that deliver
increased productivity, resilience, and security
during a time of unprecedented uncertainty.

Competing on a global level requires a data-first

strategy that unlocks powerful insights to
capitalize on opportunity and elevate processes.
Challenges

Building a future-proof
strategy for tomorrow

Empower frontline Keep pace with change Drive sustainable

workers with intelligent at every stage of the business initiatives by
tools to deliver fixes in a supply chain by eliminating waste and
safe, secure, and optimizing processes for delivering end-to-end
compliant environment data-driven growth value throughout the
opportunities supply chain

Enhance engagement and Implement autonomous and

seller performance with transparent supply chain
best-in-class solutions that processes to enable greater
help create loyal, lifetime accuracy and control in
customers demand forecasting
Solutions

How Power BI can help

Transform Engage Build Create more Unlock innovation

your customers in more agile resilient supply and deliver new
workforce new ways factories chains services

• Minimize downtime • Generate upsell and • React instantly to reduce • Optimize forecasts to • Improve process and
from the frontline cross-sell opportunities scrap and re-work reduce overstock product iteration
• Accelerate • Improve customer • Drive greater • Spot production problems through data insights
time-to-insight service effectiveness productivity and before they occur • Eliminate waste and
• Uncover cost savings • Create accurate and innovation • Reduce costs by improve sustainability
with greater visibility personalized sales • Deliver efficiency while maintaining optimal stock • Speed decisions with
solutions addressing skill gaps and on-time delivery improved connectivity
Transform your
workforce
Reduce downtime
from the frontline
Report on frontline
processes with Power BI,
quickly getting insights into
the right hands with Teams.
Leverage shared data to
uncover insights and deliver
strategic actions that
reduce downtime and
enable first-time fixes.
Enhancing self-service
reporting for data-driven
decision making
Accelerate Uncover cost savings “Power BI was more
time-to-insight with visibility powerful on light ETL
functionality and its
Provide remote workers Eliminate intelligence usability than other tools,
with a secure and bottlenecks with real-time which helped win it over
connected interface to access to value-driving in the company.”
diagnose issues on the go. insights. Dive deeper into Morten Hannibalsen Olsen,
reporting and know what’s Application Consultant
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personal Power BI alerts happening now with AI and
that accelerate time-to- IoT-enabled analytics
insight and boost helping you uncover cost-
productivity in the field. saving efficiencies.
Build more agile Instilling a data-first mindset to

factories
uncover key information for critical
business solutions

“[With] Power BI, no longer is it just

Reduce scrap and Drive greater Close skill gaps to that centralized IT or business
re-work with productivity and improve team intelligence team that’s able to go in
predictive analytics innovation efficiency and produce some powerful insights,
but now that’s being democratized
Revolutionize Modernize factories with Address skills gaps with and users at all skill levels are able to
manufacturing with deeper AI and IoT insights secure, data-driven decisions go in and build out Power BI content
digital tools that in Power BI. Test novel at every level of the to help grow and drive your analytics
leverage data to predict production processes with organization. Analyze Power culture and drive your business.”
equipment failures and digital twin models to BI reports collaboratively in Chris Wagner, Enterprise Architect
eliminate costly defects, discover new efficiencies Teams while Rockwell Automation

helping employees in a low-risk environment encouraging experienced

reduce scrap and re- and quickly share reports workers to share insights
work while improving on and dashboards with with their peers for efficiency
future processes. project stakeholders. and operational gains.
Create more resilient
supply chains
Reduce overstock
through optimized
forecasts
Leverage a complete view
of operations in Power BI to
drive greater production
efficiency. Visualize
products at every stage
with AI capabilities in Azure
to identify customer trends
and optimize forecasts for
reduced overstock.
Identify
production
problems before
they occur
Transform IoT data into
actionable insights using
Power BI and Dynamics 365
to connect, combine, and
analyze insights direct from
the production line and
alert employees of
potential problems before
they occur.
Save money by
maintaining optimal
stock levels
Provide products just-in-time
with minimal disruption
using real-time analytics in
Power BI. Visualize inventory
levels, forecast backorder
costs, and leverage
underutilized suppliers to
maintain optimal stock levels
and on-time delivery.
Driving data insights
across all levels of
the organization
“Power BI has proven itself
as being a very powerful
tool. It’s easier for top
managers to use the
reports and has helped our
company to become more
data-driven.”
Mathias Johansson, CIO
Sandvik Coromant
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Power BI
reporting Equipment testing
and
and QA analysis
dashboards
Help electronics and
electromechanics equipment
manufacturers analyze data
from tests and quality
checks to derive insights and
Start with pre-built data stories
take proactive actions that
and customize to acquire key reduce costs associated with
value insights for your company internal inefficiencies and
warranty claims.
Manufacturing
operations
dashboard
Spend more time delivering
value instead of building
complex projects. Give your
operations and accounts
teams the ability to centrally
analyze general ledger,
procurement, order
fulfillment, and deliveries of
manufactured goods.
Supply chain and
remote resource
management with IoT
analytics
Run your manufacturing
business more efficiently
by analyzing ERP data
collected with Dynamics
NAV or Dynamics AX,
such as production costs,
capacity, output, and
bill-of-materials impacts.
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to transform your
manufacturing
processes with
analytics and
insights
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