The Smart Factory - Smart Manufacturing Ecosystem

For 15+ years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. And for more than 25 years, Amazon has designed and manufactured smart products and distributed billions of products through its globally connected distribution network using cutting-edge automation, machine learning and AI, and robotics—with AWS at its core. From product design to smart factory and smart products, AWS helps manufacturers transform their operations with the most advanced cloud solutions available today, while taking advantage of the highest level of security.

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Value

Powering complex supply chains and industrial operations around the world, including Amazon Fulfillment Centers, AWS is an expert in driving industrial digital transformation at an unprecedented scale. As advances in edge computing, computer vision, machine learning, and cloud technology put improved performance and cost savings within reach for every factory, manufacturers know they must adopt new technologies to make and deliver products ahead of the competition.

However, many need an assist with efficient and effective adoption across their enterprises. With an extensive network of expert AWS Partners ready to help, AWS can support manufacturers through every step of their Industry 4.0 journey with scale, sustainability, and rapid innovation.

Capabilities

Among 200+ fully featured AWS products, you can find every tool you need to jump-start a smart factory transformation. AWS IoT Greengrass lets you build intelligent devices faster. AWS IoT TwinMaker can provide an immersive and 3D view of your operation. And that's only the beginning. Wherever you stand today, building on AWS, you can drive operational efficiencies throughout your operation and even add “smart” products and services to grow your business tomorrow.

“Regardless of where manufacturers are coming from in terms of production capability—manual, semi-automated, or highly automated—at Smart Factory by Deloitte @ Wichita, they will see that Industry 4.0 is achievable for them. And it's not because we'll tell them. They'll walk a production line with a range of capabilities and metrics in place and see for themselves.”

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Douglas Bellin
Head of Worldwide Smart Factory Solutions, AWS

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Case study

AWS optimizes production, increases profits for a premier paper company

Hundreds of paper and tissue parent rolls are produced every day at Georgia-Pacific facilities. But paper production is a delicate process, and getting valuable insight proved to be a challenge. Using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to reduce paper tears on a single production line, Georgia-Pacific increased profits by millions of dollars with the help of AWS.

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Solution

Explore AWS Manufacturing

AWS allows you to focus your resources on optimizing production, creating new smart-product business opportunities, and improving operational efficiencies across the value chain. More than 200 fully featured services support virtually any cloud workload, including compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, ML and AI, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management supported and delivered through a global infrastructure.

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