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Digitally transforming manufacturing processes

Times are changing for manufacturers, with greater demands coming from both business customers and end consumers. Despite many external factors affecting the industry, including macro-social, political and economic trends, evolution continues. Manufacturers have been working towards Industry 4.0, and now 5.0 – a move beyond efficiency and productivity goals to place focus on the contribution of the industry to society.

Vodafone Business can help manufacturers build smart, sustainable and secure operations to overcome today’s challenges and future-proof their business for tomorrow.

Build smart, sustainable and secure operations

Whether it’s carefully combining technology and expertise to digitalise production lines, securing data to meet industry compliance standards, or enabling sustainable operations to reduce the manufacturing industry’s impact on the world – we can help. Read our interactive Manufacturing Industry Spotlight digital brochure to learn how we can help overcome the challenges manufacturers are facing.

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Smart Manufacturing operations

Create productive, adaptable environments that allow you to pivot to new demands, increase productivity and improve your business resiliency.

Dedicated MEC

Boost your productivity while protecting your business and people with dedicated Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) on our award-winning network.

Distributed MEC

Get incredible real-time insights to make decisions faster, while facilitating a new class of cloud applications such as industrial robotic/drone automation, connected vehicles, AI and AR/VR infotainment.

IoT solutions

Create bespoke Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to monitor your production equipment, track your goods and use Fleet Analytics for vehicles in your supply chain and distribution channels.

Unified Communications

Bring together fixed, mobile and messaging services on a single platform, or in a fully managed cloud-based service with Unified Communications (VBUC) - improving productivity, efficiency and employee satisfaction.

5G

With connected wireless factories, predictive maintenance and high-speed processes, Vodafone 5G embraces smart automation to reduce costs and increase efficiency, addressing the needs of a changing workforce and innovating to remain competitive.

Mobile Private Networks (MPN)

Revolutionise how you do business by bringing the network and the cloud closer to the devices that need them. MPN supports your business-critical services with a local network on your premises to ensure reliability, deliver extra capacity and provide fast local processing capability.

Manufacturing security solutions

Give your business better control by providing protection for your network, cloud and apps, operations and devices when it matters most.

Network protection

Reduce the threat of cybersecurity risks for your business. We can assess, manage and monitor your firewalls to reduce vulnerabilities, and test your network that it’s fully protected.

Secure operations

From phishing awareness services to managed Security Operations Centres (SOC), our services are built to protect your business from both external and internal threats. This includes those caused by high staff turnover and seasonal employees – one of the biggest challenges faced today.

Device security

Keep your data and devices protected with Vodafone’s range of Mobile Threat defence, Endpoint protection and Unified Endpoint Management solutions. Our solutions are highly intelligent, designed to reduce the risk of downtime and reputational damage caused by security breaches.

Protection for cloud and apps

Keep work private and data safe with intelligent technology that identifies and proactively responds to threats as they arise. With Vodafone's management and monitoring services you can successfully maintain control of your data within your ecosystem of bricks and mortar and ecommerce stores.

Sustainable manufacturing solutions

Deliver a range of tailored solutions and expert advice to help you make the most of the circular economy and harness the power of enabling technologies – empowering you to grow sustainably.

IoT solutions

Contribute to the circular economy by understanding how your products perform once they’re sold to customers. Use this data to improve customer experience, fault detection and end of life recovery and recycling.

Unified Communications

Reduce your environmental impact by bringing together fixed, mobile and messaging services on a single platform or in a fully managed cloud-based service with Unified Communications (VBUC) - improving productivity, efficiency and employee satisfaction.

Device Lifecycle Management

End-to-end build, management and deployment of your devices empowering your staff to connect securely from anywhere while managing their devices in a way that’s simple and sustainable.

Connected Spaces

Track, analyse and consolidate data from your buildings to optimise your spaces securely using IoT sensors, to better manage your occupancy, energy consumption and emissions.

Cloud services

Vodafone Business provides shared and centralised data centre hosting services where you can migrate from on-site hosting to more efficient centralised data hosting centres.

Best Network for Business*

Vodafone is uniquely placed to empower manufacturers with technology that enables everything and everyone in a business to be better connected.

Manufacturing is in our DNA

We provide the networks, technology and solutions that help manufacturers gain a competitive advantage today and position themselves to take advantage of new opportunities tomorrow.

Transition to net zero

We have considerable experience in monitoring our own emissions and using technology to meet our targets. We can help you as you include more circular practices and transition to net zero.

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1-9 employees

Give us a call – see how we can help your business reach its full potential.

0808 060 0802

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Opening hours: 8am - 6pm. Out of hours support* is available from 6pm - 8am.

Out of hours support is available between 6pm-8am from Monday to Friday. This includes weekends and Bank Holidays.

The out of hours services you can receive depends on whether you’re a Foundation customer or a Tiered customer. Our out of hours service matrix outlines what support you can receive during out of hours periods.

**Following completion of diagnostics, if it’s determined the device is faulty, a form will be completed and submitted. The advisor will confirm the Annovo team will contact the customer during core hours.

***Applies to main contacts only who can complete requests on behalf of an end user.

10-49 employees

Give us a call – see how we can help your business reach its full potential.

0808 004 4495

Existing customers call 191

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Opening hours: 8am - 6pm. Out of hours support* is available from 6pm - 8am.

Out of hours support is available between 6pm-8am from Monday to Friday. This includes weekends and Bank Holidays.

The out of hours services you can receive depends on whether you’re a Foundation customer or a Tiered customer. Our out of hours service matrix outlines what support you can receive during out of hours periods.

**Following completion of diagnostics, if it’s determined the device is faulty, a form will be completed and submitted. The advisor will confirm the Annovo team will contact the customer during core hours.

***Applies to main contacts only who can complete requests on behalf of an end user.

50-249 employees

Give us a call – see how we can help your business reach its full potential.

0808 005 7404

Existing customers call 191

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Opening hours: 8am - 6pm. Out of hours support* is available from 6pm - 8am.

Out of hours support is available between 6pm-8am from Monday to Friday. This includes weekends and Bank Holidays.

The out of hours services you can receive depends on whether you’re a Foundation customer or a Tiered customer. Our out of hours service matrix outlines what support you can receive during out of hours periods.

**Following completion of diagnostics, if it’s determined the device is faulty, a form will be completed and submitted. The advisor will confirm the Annovo team will contact the customer during core hours.

***Applies to main contacts only who can complete requests on behalf of an end user.

250+ employees

Give us a call – see how we can help your business reach its full potential.

0808 099 8877

Existing customers call 191

Call me back

Opening hours: 8am - 6pm. Out of hours support* is available from 6pm - 8am.

Out of hours support is available between 6pm-8am from Monday to Friday. This includes weekends and Bank Holidays.

The out of hours services you can receive depends on whether you’re a Foundation customer or a Tiered customer. Our out of hours service matrix outlines what support you can receive during out of hours periods.

**Following completion of diagnostics, if it’s determined the device is faulty, a form will be completed and submitted. The advisor will confirm the Annovo team will contact the customer during core hours.

***Applies to main contacts only who can complete requests on behalf of an end user.

Vodafone Business won the Best Network for Business at the Mobile News Awards 2024. The award was based on a range of criteria including innovation, flexibility and benefits. Vodafone and BT were the award finalists. Visit Mobile News Awards’ website for more details.

Criteria:

Solutions and products offered
Benefits offered to professional users and organisations
Product’s unique features and business challenges solved
Cost benefits offered 
Improvements to business customers’ productivity and commercial performance
Evidence of reliable network connectivity, security and control.

Industry expertise: Manufacturing

Digitally transforming manufacturing processes

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