Blog Series: Microsoft Teams for Frontline Workers

This blog series shows how Microsoft Teams simplifies manufacturing processes and improves company communication with frontline workers, improving their day-to-day work experience and increasing your organization’s overall efficiency.

Frontline workers are essential, but often overlooked.

As manufacturing companies continue to modernize applications and information flow, the knowledge gap between frontline workers (FLWs) and office workers widens. While office “knowledge workers” have independent access to updated information and automation programs, often FLWs learn information from face-to-face interactions with their manager, leaving many FLWs feeling one step behind, if not left out altogether.

Microsoft Teams both informs and supports FLWs with modern task-based digitized tools. Teams provides FLWs with on-demand information while also assisting frontline managers (FLMs) in managing critical operations, including scheduling, reporting and training. By streamlining routine tasks and eliminating communication roadblocks, Teams improves FLW performance and, most importantly, ensures their safety.

This four-part series details the advantages of Teams for frontline workers and explains how to incorporate this technology into your existing infrastructure, so you can close the information gap and empower your FLWs to succeed.

Read the Series

Microsoft Teams for Frontline Workers: Putting Collaboration on the Line

We begin the blog series by discussing how Microsoft Teams gives FLWs on-demand access to real-time information, streamlining their processes, increasing efficacy, and building trust between FLWs and upper management.

Microsoft Teams for Frontline Workers: Innovate Your Manufacturing Processes

Next, we introduce several tools that make Microsoft Teams a digital hub of real-time communication and enhanced manufacturing operational excellence.

Microsoft Teams for Frontline Workers: Improving Manufacturing Safety with RealWear

We explain how integrating hands-free wearable technology like RealWear through Teams boosts connectivity and improves FLW safety.

Microsoft Teams for Frontline Workers: Overcoming Roadblocks to a Successful Deployment

In our final blog post, we break down how to incorporate Teams into your organization, including assessing your current technology infrastructure, building deployment and adoption plans, and establishing security and data privacy policies.