Manufacturing Solutions
Engineer Better. Operate Smarter. Deliver Faster.
NetApp solutions help manufacturers unify operations, reduce risk, and accelerate innovation, whether you're designing the next big thing or scaling production globally.
In today's world of manufacturing—from aerospace and automotive to industrial machinery—complexity is the norm.
Products are more sophisticated, supply chains are more interconnected, and customers expect innovation delivered at record speed. Staying ahead means engineering with precision, running smart operations, and innovating in ways that are both fast and sustainable.
That's where NetApp® solutions can make a real difference. We help manufacturers like you unify operations, reduce risk, and accelerate innovation, whether you're designing the next big thing or scaling production globally.
Features and Benefits
The capabilities that set NetApp Solutions for Manufacturing apart.
Hybrid Cloud: The Foundation of Smart, Sustainable Manufacturing
Collaboration without borders
Empower your distributed engineering and production teams to work together in real time, securely and seamlessly.
Smarter resource management
Cut waste, lower your energy use, and improve efficiency throughout the product lifecycle.
Seamless IoT data flow
Unlock the power of real-time insights from connected machines and sensors to promote smarter business decisions.
Digital twins at scale
Design, test, and refine products virtually before they reach your production line, improving quality and reducing time to market.
Regulatory readiness
Build digital product passports and participate in industry data spaces like Catena-X and Manufacturing-X.
Cost-effective scalability
Scale IT resources as needed—paying only for what you use—while reinvesting your savings into innovation.
Artificial Intelligence: Accelerating Smart Manufacturing
Predictive maintenance, intelligent automation
Use AI to anticipate equipment failures before they happen, reducing downtime and maintenance costs. Streamline repetitive tasks and optimize your production processes for safer operations and better energy efficiency with AI-driven insights.
Knowledge management
Tap into the power of existing large language models (LLMs) with Retrieval-Augmented Generation AI (RAG-AI) to extract deeper insights from your manufacturing data, enabling smarter decisions, faster innovation, and scalable knowledge reuse.
Quality and yield optimization
Detect product defects in real time, see that operations are being executed properly, and adjust your production parameters to maximize output and improve consistency.
Efficient supply chain managment
Enable real-time inventory management, insight into individual vendors, and raw material price forecasting, facilitating continuous production and agile decision making.
Smarter AI Starts Here
Store and access data
Store and access data with intelligent data classification, inline data reduction, quality of service, and rapid data change detection.
Copy and clone data
Copy and clone data instantly and space-efficiently for application iteration, model versioning, and sandboxes.
Move data across hybrid multiclouds
Move data across hybrid multiclouds with secure replication, read/write volume caching, and cold data tiering.
Protect all your data
Protect all your data on premises and in the cloud with policy-based security controls, authentication, encryption, and real-time ransomware detection.
Digital Twins: A Smarter Way to Design and Deliver
Accelerate prototyping
Accelerate prototyping and iterative simulations, improving quality and reducing time-to-market.
Monitor and optimize
Monitor and optimize production and supply chains in real time.
Cut costs and carbon emissions
Cut both costs and carbon emissions with reduced manufacturing cycle times.
Ensure data integrity
Ensure data integrity and interoperability, thanks to NetApp's leadership in open standards and secure data management.
NetApp Solutions for Manufacturing Success
High-performance engineering workloads
Power CAD, CAE, PLM, and eVDI with fast, secure, and scalable infrastructure.
Accelerated time to market
Use model-based design and parallel simulations to bring your innovations to market faster.
AI and GenAI at scale
Simplify complex workloads with unified data storage that fuels advanced AI initiatives. Implement RAG-AI with existing LLMs to enable scalable knowledge management, specifically for project management.
Seamless global collaboration
Provide your distributed teams with secure, real-time access to critical design and production data.
Sustainability by design
Optimize your energy use, reduce production waste, and achieve compliance with always-evolving environmental regulations.
The NetApp Advantage
Speed and agility
NetApp solutions eliminate data silos and enable real-time collaboration across teams and geographies, so you can move faster from concept to production.
Smarter operations
NetApp intelligent data services automate routine tasks and surface insights that help you make better decisions, from the shop floor to the boardroom.
Built-in sustainability
We help you optimize how and where your data is processed, reducing your energy use and supporting your environmental goals.
End-to-end security
NetApp solutions safeguard your sensitive data with robust, built-in protection that helps you stay compliant and resilient against evolving cyberthreats.
Expert Guidance
Thrive with expert-led storage guidance
Get tailored advice on how NetApp Solutions for Manufacturing fits your environment — from sizing and deployment to long-term optimization.
Technical Specifications
Exhaustive hardware and software metrics extracted directly from official documentation.
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Storage OS for all your hybrid multicloud data1
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Performance boost for GPU-direct storage2X
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Accuracy for real-time ransomware detection99%
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Manufacturing leaders citing cloud as central to strategic goals78%
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Reduction in manufacturing cycle time with digital twin technologyUp to 20%
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AWSDeep integration
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AzureDeep integration
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Google CloudDeep integration
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Catena-XSupported
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Manufacturing-XSupported
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Engineering ApplicationsCAD, CAE, PLM, eVDI
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AI WorkloadsAI and GenAI at scale, RAG-AI with existing LLMs
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Digital TwinsScalable, standards-based digital twin solutions (collaboration with Fraunhofer IESE)
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