A digital factory that is connected, networked, and fully integrated creates opportunities to minimize costs of downtime and underperformance in production and to enable the best output from factory assets and employees. What is a challenge that companies face when using digital manufacturing? Maintaining machinery and equipment using proactive real-time monitoring with a predictive maintenance model Maintaining machinery and equipment using proactive real-time monitoring with a predictive maintenance modelDecreasing manufacturing cycle times, which is the time required to produce an order Eliminating manufacturing traffic jams Implementing advanced technologies like these can be challenging for many IT departments.