By Rebekah Carter
Publication Date: 2025-11-12 09:00:00
Manufacturing has always been about motion, materials moving, machines turning, people working in step. What’s shifting now is how all those movements stay in sync.
The same line worker who once juggled radio calls and paper logs now checks a shared dashboard on Microsoft Teams for Manufacturing. The engineer who used to wait hours for a maintenance report now sees an alert pop up mid-shift, complete with video from the shop floor.
Teams has become the connective tissue of the smart factory, a space where operations, safety, and data converge. It’s not a “chat app.” It’s a live workspace that bridges the divide between IT systems and operational technology, providing every technician, supervisor, and plant manager with a single view of what’s happening and the ability to act on it.
At Hannover Messe 2025, Microsoft showcased factories already utilizing this model with predictive maintenance insights delivered through Teams, Copilot…
