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Manufacturers face common challenges

Deskless workforce

Frontline workers have limited access to computers or email, so alerts and news rarely reach the shop floor in time.

Outdated SOPs

Printouts go stale and shared drives lose version control, putting quality and compliance at risk.

Fragmented systems

Workers jump between MES, ERP, and email just to find one answer, wasting hours every shift.

Made for the way manufacturing works

One intranet for manufacturing, built around how your people actually work.

Connect every shift

Give shift leads, engineers, and HQ one source of truth for internal communications, wherever they're based.

Reach the shop floor

A native mobile app puts news, safety alerts, and role-relevant updates in every deskless worker's pocket.

Manage SOPs with confidence

Version control, approvals, and expiry cycles ensure the SOP on the floor is the one that's signed off.

Speed up shift handover

Digital handover boards and shift logs keep every team aligned, shift after shift.

Connect your tech stack

Unily sits on top of your MES, ERP, QMS, HR, and Microsoft 365 platforms, connecting them to the people who need them.

Capture tribal knowledge

AI-powered search and tagging turn scattered know-how into shared knowledge management, boosting knowledge sharing across every site.

Why Manufacturing Leaders Choose Unily

Across the globe, Unily empowers frontline, operational, and corporate teams to stay connected, informed, and ready to act.

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Manufacturing

80%

Time Reduction

"The time saving is a really big factor for us with the automation of those stories, because before what we were seeing was a doubling of work. It made no sense. Now, you submit stories on [our intranet] and we'll grab it from there. We're not reworking titles and descriptions, and all of that. We can just pull content directly into the newsletter."

Alexia Marsillo
Communications Lead, CAE

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Manufacturing

654%

Increase in Corporate News Coverage

"From 0–100 in 60 days was only possible with Unily and through the power of the Microsoft cloud."

Adrian Gagala
Team Leader Collaboration & HR Systems Group IT, dormakaba

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Manufacturing

50k

Employees Empowered

"Our new [Employee Experience platform] GLOBE takes us away from our previous focus on organizational units. Now, we are rigorously re-imagining the intranet from the ground up, from the perspective of our employees, the users."

Dirk Ramhorst
CIO and CDO, WACKER

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AI at the core of your digital workplace

Unily Glass and Indi combine conversational AI and agentic experience creation to transform how work gets done - connecting people, content, and tools in one seamless platform.

Unily Glass

A conversational AI interface that connects employees to information and actions across your enterprise—helping them find answers, complete tasks, and stay productive in one secure experience.

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Indi

An AI-powered employee experience agent that helps teams design, structure, and publish on-brand intranet experiences faster, all within governed workflows and approval processes.

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Manufacturing Intranet FAQs

What is an intranet for manufacturing companies?

An intranet for manufacturing gives every employee, from plant managers to frontline workers, one centralized platform to find company knowledge, SOPs, compliance documents, and data. It replaces scattered shared drives and printouts with a single source of truth, improving document management and employee engagement across every site.

How does Unily support frontline and deskless workers?

Most frontline workers don't have company email or a desk. Unily's native mobile app gives them secure mobile access to shift schedules, training materials, safety alerts, and role-relevant news, in their own language, so real-time communication reaches the shop floor, not just the front office.

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What features should an intranet for manufacturing include to improve staff communication and collaboration?

An intranet for manufacturing that improves staff communication and collaboration should include:

Targeted communications and alerts: role- and location-based news, urgent updates, and mobile notifications so critical information reaches the right people fast.
Mobile-first experience: a consistent experience for frontline staff across shifts, sites, and devices.
Advanced search and knowledge hub: one place to find policies, SOPs, FAQs, and trusted resources quickly.
People directory and expertise finding: searchable profiles to find engineers, subject-matter experts, safety leads, maintenance teams, and other key contacts across sites.
Communities and social collaboration: spaces for plant teams, engineering, quality, operations, and continuous-improvement groups to exchange knowledge and best practices.
Integrations with core systems: links and connectors to tools like MES, ERP, QMS, HR, Microsoft 365 and SharePoint to reduce context switching and improve information access.
Governance and permissions: secure authentication, role-based access, and audit-friendly controls.
Task management and workflow support: simple ways to assign tasks, track follow-ups, and coordinate service teams when communication turns into action.
Personalization: content, shortcuts, and resources tailored to role, location, and team.
Analytics and feedback: engagement reporting, search insights, and lightweight feedback to continuously improve content and comms effectiveness.

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How is Unily different from a SharePoint intranet?

A SharePoint intranet is built for desk-based knowledge work, not the shop floor. Unily layers on top of SharePoint and Microsoft 365, adding mobile-first access, AI-powered search, and structured document governance, so manufacturers get a modern intranet without abandoning their existing SharePoint investment.

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What features should manufacturing intranet software include?

The right manufacturing intranet software brings document management, content governance, and project management tools together in one centralized platform. Look for a system that also connects supply chain data, shift schedules, and training materials. That keeps information consistent and compliant for every worker while improving operational efficiency across plants and shifts.

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One front door for every
plant and shift

“The time saving is a really big factor for us because before, we were seeing a doubling of work.”