CLOUD EDGE
“Manufacturing is about growth , employment , innovation ”
ÇAĞLAYAN ARKAN VP GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR MANUFACTURING & SUPPLY CHAIN AT MICROSOFT .
It is part of his job at Microsoft to create awareness and inform everyone , from individual users to large enterprises , about how to become a digital entity .
“ My role is to meet them where they are , go through their journeys and move them towards their own ‘ art of possible ’, however they define it ,” Arkan says .
Kawasaki partnered with Microsoft to build industrial robots and , in doing so , started with their own digital twins of their industrial robots .
“ We put them in a manufacturing environment , created a digital twin of that manufacturing environment , including robots , and then ended up moving to a metaverse view of assets , all coming together in a virtual environment .”
That ’ s the new world . The pandemic has taught manufacturers that manufacturing can no longer be kept in what Arkan calls the ‘ Dark Ages ’.
“ That was the past . Everything was offline . Every data source was siloed and everything was manual . Well , until the pandemic happened . Now , everyone wants to have business continuity and resiliency and , for that to happen , those remote capabilities , digital twin capabilities , and smart manufacturing capabilities are important .” But why does it matter ?
42 August 2022