Diego Tamburlnl from Azure Manufacturing suggests that for manufactl.rers specifically, the cloud is a much better model to do the distributed computing things that are comnon in manufacturing scenarios. So manufacturing companies have embraced the cloud in most of their supporting functions and now this adoption is spreading to the other departments. This is fueled by the fact that most software vendors are now providing cloud-based or cloud-enhanced solutions, such as PLM, CAD, CAE, ERP. MES, loT on a subscription-based model that provides a much better value to manufacturers.