Long Form

Consumer goods leader P&G continually looks for ways to drive manufacturing efficiency and improve overall equipment effectiveness—a KPI encompassing availability, performance, and quality that’s tracked in P&G facilities around the world.

P&G deployed Azure IoT Operations, enabled by Azure Arc, to capture real-time data from equipment at the edge, analyze it in the cloud, and deploy predictive models that enhance manufacturing efficiency and reduce unplanned downtime.

Using Azure IoT Operations and Azure Arc, P&G is extrapolating insights and correlating them across plants to improve efficiency, reduce loss, and continue to drive global manufacturing technology forward.

With people demanding more from cellular carriers, SK Telecom looked to enable its successful A.(A-Dot) personal AI assistant app to deliver intelligent, hyper-personalized digital experiences and real-time insights to its millions of subscribers.

SK Telecom built an agentic solution, using Microsoft Foundry for its multi-agent orchestration, fine-tuned Korean language models, and robust compliance capabilities.

Using highly secure and compliant Azure AI technologies, SK Telecom is delivering natural conversation experiences informed by users’ routines, preferences, and location, driving millions of new subscribers.

Through a continued collaboration with Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson is working to make processes increasingly efficient, as part of its digital manufacturing transformation with tools like Azure, AI, IoT, MES and Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing capabilities. Since 2018, Microsoft has supported Johnson & Johnson as the health care leader aims to leverage cloud technology and other digital capabilities to enable business innovation, improve agility, reduce cost of ownership and improve disaster recovery.

Johnson & Johnson Senior Vice President and Group CIO of Global Supply Chain, Steve Wrenn, sat down with Transform to share his perspective on the ways Johnson & Johnson uses the capabilities of the Microsoft Cloud to help ensure that the company’s products are sourced, manufactured and delivered as efficiently as possible.