M365.FM a Microsoft MVP Podcast by Mirko Peters

What Happens When Sales Promises an Urgent Order

An urgent customer request sounds simple: sales promises a fast delivery date, marks the order as priority, and asks production to fit it in. But the new order does not e

Why AI Can't Optimize a Factory It Doesn't Understand

A machine stops in the middle of production. ERP knows the customer orders and due dates, MES knows which operation stopped, maintenance knows the repair status, and the

Production Schedule Optimization - How to Build Better Production Schedules

A production schedule can look correct while the factory has already moved on. A machine runs slower than expected, a setup takes longer, material is still waiting for re

What Is an Industrial Data Model

A factory can collect enormous amounts of data and still struggle to answer a basic operational question: what does this event actually affect? ERP knows customer orders

How Machine Data Reaches Microsoft Fabric - From OPC UA to Real-Time Analytics

Getting machine alarms, sensor values, production counters, and fault events into the cloud is easier than ever. OPC UA exposes the machine signal, an edge layer collects

Connectivity Is Not Integration — Why Your Connected Factory Still Can't Answer the Right Questions

A connected factory can move machine signals in milliseconds and still fail to answer the operational questions that actually matter. A packaging machine stops, the PLC r

Why Continuous Improvement Needs Better Data

Continuous improvement is supposed to create learning that compounds over time. In many factories, however, improvement work still depends heavily on workshops, spreadshe

IoT Hub Message Routing vs Event Grid — Why Telemetry and Events Are Not the Same Problem

A temperature reading, a vibration sample, a machine cycle, and a device disconnect may all be described as events, but they do not represent the same architectural probl

Building Azure That Survives the Real World — with Mike Martin [MVP]

Azure architecture looks easy when everything works.The real test starts when dependencies fail, regions become unavailable, traffic spikes, assumptions turn out to be wr

Why Your Production Schedule Is Wrong Before It Even Starts

Your production schedule can look perfectly reasonable when it leaves the ERP system. Order dates line up, routing times make sense, capacity appears available, and mater

Microsoft 365 Copilot Without the Hype: Adoption, Governance & Getting Your Tenant Ready with Paul Keijzers [MVP]

Microsoft 365 Copilot can help people find information and get work done faster, but its answers depend on the content and permissions already in an organization’s Micros

When Microsoft Messaging Looks Secure but Isn’t — Exchange Server, Hybrid and Microsoft 365 Security with Thomas Stensitzki [MVP]

Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft 365 make it possible to run powerful messaging environments, but moving email to the cloud does not automatically make it secure. In this

Content Understanding & Document AI - Simply Explained

Invoices, contracts, receipts, forms, scanned PDFs, and email attachments contain valuable business information — but most automation still struggles to turn those docume

IoT Hub Message Routing vs Event Grid — Why Telemetry and Events Are Not the Same Problem

A machine sends temperature readings, vibration data, cycle counts, power consumption, and operating states every few seconds. Then the gateway suddenly disconnects. Are

The 5 Pillars of Data Transformation - Simply Explained

AI was supposed to clear the backlog, accelerate decisions, and give every team a smarter way to work. Instead, many organizations now have Microsoft Copilot, Power BI, M

Your Factory Cloud Bill Is Much Higher Than You Think

Cloud storage may look cheap. Sending factory data to the cloud may look cheap. But the real cloud bill often starts when that data begins moving. In this episode, we bre

From Financial Data to AI-Ready Decisions: Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Semantic Models & AI Agents with Rishi Sapra [MVP]

What happens when AI agents start making sense of financial and business data — not just displaying it?In this episode of M365.FM, Mirko Peters talks with Rishi Sapra Mic

Why Your ERP Can't Build an Optimal Production Schedule

Your ERP can calculate production dates, explode demand through MRP, manage routings, inventory, purchase orders, and production orders. But that does not automatically m

Production Planning Software: When Does a Manufacturer Actually Need It?

When does a manufacturer actually need dedicated production planning software? It is not when the company reaches a certain size. It is not when Excel suddenly becomes “u

Can You Simulate Your Factory Before Changing It?

What happens when you change a factory before you know how the rest of the production system will react? Adding a shift, buying a new machine, reducing buffers, changing