Case Study: Coats boosts productivity and reduces environmental risk with Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics

Coats spins up Azure IoT solutions to optimize productivity and reduce environmental risk

Coats, the world’s leading industrial thread company, needed a way to improve factory productivity while reducing thread breakage and environmental risk across its global manufacturing operations. Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics was part of the Azure IoT solution set Coats used to build an IoT architecture that could monitor machine performance and environmental conditions in near real time.

Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics, together with Azure IoT Edge, Azure and Power BI, helped Coats analyze streaming sensor data at the edge and in the cloud, trigger early alerts for environmental compliance issues, and power dashboards for operators and executives. The result was a rapid deployment completed in five months by a small team, with Coats already seeing progress toward an 8 percent productivity increase, fewer production disruptions, and better visibility into manufacturing processes.

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Sriram Iyer

Director of Data Science and Analytics