Solving the Data Challenge for Manufacturers with Sight Machine & Azure IoT Operations

Microsoft

Nov 18, 2025

Delivering Industrial AI: From Data to Results

As manufacturers accelerate their digital transformation, the ability to unify and leverage operational data is the difference between incremental improvement and competitive advantage. Today, we’re launching a joint solution with Sight Machine, purpose-built to solve the OT data challenge and deliver the full Industrial AI stack in weeks, not months: Sight Machine and Microsoft Integrated Industrial AI Stack on Azure

This offering is proven in the field, already driving measurable productivity gains for customers in automotive, food, and other sectors with rapid POC cycles and commercial-scale deployments. By integrating Sight Machine’s industrial AI platform with Azure IoT Operations and Microsoft Fabric, we standardize and contextualize machine data at scale, enabling analytics, automation, and actionable insights across the enterprise.

What Sets This Solution Apart

Fast Deployment: Get the full Industrial AI stack up and running in weeks, not months.
End-to-End Integration: Sight Machine’s industrial AI platform works seamlessly with Azure IoT Operations and Microsoft Fabric, standardizing OT data for enterprise-wide use.
Real Results: Customers in automotive, food, and other industries are already seeing measurable productivity gains and faster decision cycles.
Scalable & Secure: Built on Azure’s adaptive cloud and zero-trust security, with SI partners ready to support commercial scale.

Delivering a unified Industrial AI stack

Today marks a pivotal moment for manufacturers: the launch of a fully integrated Industrial AI solution, jointly delivered by Microsoft and Sight Machine. This offering brings together the entire Industrial AI stack spanning cloud, edge, and on-premises, enabling organizations to unlock transformative business value.

The integrated solution enables customers to transform data into business value by seamlessly contextualizing and moving data from the Edge using Sight Machine and Azure IoT Operations to Microsoft Fabric. Within Microsoft Fabric, the data can be further contextualized and enriched to support AI agents and can be extended to visualize 3D digital twins using NVIDIA Omniverse. The integrated solution has following key components:

Azure IoT Operations
Streams secure, real-time telemetry from industrial assets to the cloud, enabling visibility and control across edge and enterprise environments.
Microsoft Fabric
Provides a single analytics and governance platform, merging IT and OT data for enterprise-wide insights.
Sight Machine Industrial AI Platform
Refines data into “gold-level” quality, fully contextualized and structured for AI, predictive maintenance, and process optimization.
M365 Copilot & Agentic Intelligence
Surfaces actionable insights directly in familiar tools like Teams and Excel, empowering operators and managers to make informed decisions instantly.
NVIDIA Omniverse Integration
Extends capabilities into immersive 3D digital twins and physics-based simulations, enabling manufacturers to visualize live operations and test changes virtually before implementing them.

Customer Impact

Manufacturing is the world’s largest sector, generating twice as much data as any other industry. Yet, the complexity and fragmentation of OT (Operational Technology) data have long limited the adoption of AI at scale. Sight Machine solves this challenge by integrating with every level of the Azure stack, structuring raw OT data into high-quality, contextualized “gold” data, ready for advanced analytics and AI.

This integrated offering removes barriers to AI adoption. Manufacturers can connect assets, contextualize data, and deliver actionable insights directly to teams, whether in Teams, Excel, or immersive 3D digital twins. The result: higher productivity, smarter operations, and continuous improvement.