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Confluent for Intelligent Manufacturing

Harness the power of data in motion by capturing a variety of sensor data, from production line equipment to products, in real time for manufacturing resiliency. Build an efficient supply chain, increase plant productivity, and improve production quality and predictability.

Data Streaming to Modernize the Engineering and Sales Lifecycle

Industrial IoT (IIoT) and next-gen technologies such as 5G, IoT sensors and platforms, edge computing, AI and analytics, robotics, blockchain and virtual/augmented reality are transforming manufacturing.

Confluent's data streaming platform empowers you to easily access data as real-time streams, unlock legacy data, and integrate data silos. Designed to run anywhere—in the factory, datacenter, or the cloud—Confluent helps modernize data architecture, streamline operations, integrate manufacturing with the rest of your enterprise and supply chain, and realize the full potential of a digital factory.

Why Confluent

Build a flexible and scalable data foundation, centered around streaming, to make your data products continuously interoperable in real time for any use case.

Build reusable data products

Combine data from anywhere with a decoupled, immutable event-driven architecture and in-stream processing

Stay fast at any load

Scale your operations to effortlessly to handle trillions of messages per day with no compromise to performance or uptime

Eliminate data inconsistencies

Maintain data contracts, prevent duplicates and guarantee consistency with zero data loss

Get AI-ready

Train ML models with real-time data that’s always streaming so your applications can act on every event with context and intelligence

Govern data end-to-end

Leverage the only fully managed governance suite for Apache Kafka to share data streams faster while ensuring integrity and security of data

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Trusted by the World’s Leading Manufacturing Vendors

Confluent is used by Manufacturers for a wide variety of use cases.

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Use Cases with Confluent

Aggregate, orchestrate and integrate data, across all your systems, suppliers and partners in real-time and at scale to drive automation and IoT innovation.

Build an End-to-End Connected Supply Chain

From plant floor and warehouse to distribution and delivery, gain a real-time view of your supply chain, improve traceability and visibility on goods, people, assets and events. Increase inventory accuracy and forecasting and reduce risks with fulfillment.

Boost Product Quality and Manufacturing Operations

Integrate real-time data across SCM systems, ERP systems, order fulfillment systems, IoT devices and more. Increase production yield, quality, reduce waste and predict maintenance issues to prevent breakdowns and reduce costs.

Enhance Innovation and Agility with Digital Twins

Achieve servitization to improve customer satisfaction and grow profits. Integrate sensors, real-time applications and batch systems — easily build a digital twin for predictive maintenance, reduced downtime and efficient inventory management.

Modernize and Optimize Cyber Security

Capture and aggregate data from all security log sources for centralized management, to identify real-time threats, and to filter data for analysis and security incident and event management (SIEM). Validate and conform to reporting standards. Build a centralized compliance hub to adhere to regulatory requirements.

Make Data Streaming a Reality with Our Partners

Complement your existing data investments with Confluent and push trusted data across your entire stack in real time.

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System Integrators

Confluent Cloud enables a small team of solution architects at Bosch to power a large-scale digital transformation with new applications that process and respond to real-time events.

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