Two groups at Microsoft approached my team with similar requests to research, analyze, and design demo prototypes for future-facing experiences using Power BI-integrated dashboards.
Agency
Revel
Date
August - November 2019
Team
James Watson, Creative Director
Joe Ehrbar, Copywriter
Jim Love, Interaction Design
Factory of the Future
Assembly lines in factories are complex. Managing a factory successfully requires scheduling equipment maintenance at the right time, keeping stock supplied, monitoring output, and much more. Microsoft is developing technology and software to make managing a factory easy. My team helped Microsoft bring that vision to life with an interactive demo showing how a team can get valuable information about a factory line and act quickly to minimize the impacts of potentially complicated problems.
Supply Chain
Public sentiment about a product can turn negative in a specific geographic area because of a faulty part being installed in one factory. Tracking down the issue is only half the battle. Getting supply from other locations to cover the issue can help. Microsoft is creating technology and software to help diagnose manufacturing and supply chain issues. My team created an interactive demo to show how a team could work together to avoid disaster by finding the issue and solving the supply problem.
Takeaways
This was a larger scale problem than I had worked on before—the dashboards that we looked at had to support global supply chain issues and factory stallouts that could have bullwhip effects on consumer products. Working with my team and partnering with strategists on parallel paths, I was able to make meaningful visual suggestions and deploy an impactful variety of demos that were used at stakeholder meetings for the entire next fiscal year.