This podcast offers a shortcut to understanding how leading manufacturers are achieving real digital transformation through automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics. Today’s manufacturers face pressures such as highly configurable products, unpredictable supply chains, and the need for real-time visibility—not just tracking what happened yesterday but knowing what’s happening right now on the shop floor. These challenges are driving the shift to intelligent, scalable platforms like Microsoft Dynamics 365, which help organizations stay competitive.
Our speakers explain why investments should focus on improving efficiency and agility, rather than simply adding new technology to older, often highly specialized, and sometimes decades-old systems. Smart manufacturing solutions like Dynamics 365 deliver measurable performance improvements by increasing throughput, reducing per-unit production costs, and enhancing the digital workplace. By implementing features such as advanced bill of materials (BOM) and routing management, AI-driven scheduling, and predictive maintenance, manufacturers can move from reactive crisis management to planned, efficient operations.
Alithya, one of North America’s largest resellers of Microsoft Dynamics 365, offers the DiscreteXpress implementation methodology for rapid system deployment. DiscreteXpress serves as a template or blueprint, including 1,000 common business processes modeled for discrete manufacturing organizations, along with more than 700 task guides covering setup, configuration, end-to-end workflows, and other step-by-step instructions.