Bright Machines and Microsoft Azure to Deliver Software-Defined Manufacturing

Bright Machines, a pioneer in intelligent, software-defined manufacturing, announced an integration and go-to-market partnership with Microsoft Azure to provide a complete stack environment for all stages of the production life cycle, from product design to assembly to disassembly. Bright Machines' relationship with electronics manufacturers will make manufacturing more accessible, efficient, and data-driven.

The current level of electronics manufacturing is still analog and manual, which slows down procedures and increases prices. Bright Machines' software-defined manufacturing challenges the current quo by offering centralized data visibility, traceability, and performance benchmarking, as well as flexible automation. This issue has been especially widespread with the rise of AI, which has resulted in increasing need for computational power, and hence AI hardware ranging from servers to data storage to networking capacity.

"The Bright Machines team is hyper-focused on propelling manufacturing into a software-defined era, to reduce the reliance on inexpensive labor and mitigate increasing costs," said Lior Susan, CEO and Executive Chairman at Bright Machines. "AI hardware is critical to bringing the aspiration of AI from theoretical to reality, but the manufacturing backend is still based on analog, outdated manufacturing processes. We aim to continue our mission to transform manufacturing — whether for traditional electronics or supporting the 'AI backbone' — which needs a standardized, yet flexible approach to manufacturing hardware."