MongoDB Atlas is being explored as a data hub for smart manufacturing by Microsoft Azure. The traditional approach of using separate databases and data warehouses to accommodate various transactional and analytical workloads in manufacturing systems will no longer be effective due to the rapid growth of IIoT data and the need for real-time analytics. MongoDB Atlas combines transactional processing, application-driven analytics, relevance-based search, and mobile edge computing with cloud sync, offering a versatile platform that can address almost every type of modern applications being built for the digital economy by developers. The benefits of using MongoDB Atlas in smart manufacturing include scalability, flexibility, real-time analytics, BI analytics, and faster mobile application development.