What's new in Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing
This article provides details about the latest updates to Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing. To see a comprehensive list of released and upcoming features, see the following resources:
January 2025
This article provides details about the latest updates to Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing, Public Preview version 1.1.0. For a comprehensive list of enhancements, releases, and bug fixes, see the following resources:
Factory Safety Agent in Copilot Studio improvements
| Improvement | Description |
|---|---|
| Content regeneration capability | Users now have more control over the generated email drafts and inspection reports, allowing them to suggest changes back to the agent. |
| Ability to send email | Users can now send email and inspection report content directly from the chat to their email application. |
| Enhanced user experience | Adaptive cards are introduced to display the agent's responses, and the agent promptly follows up with users during inactivity. |
Availability changes
Important
Factory Safety Agent is available in the United States region in Copilot Studio from January. Customers in this region won't require allowlisting.
Factory Operations Agent in Copilot Studio improvements
| Improvement | Description |
|---|---|
| Contextualized suggestions | Users now receive contextualized suggestions in the Setup flow for Factory Operations Agent in Azure AI based on past conversations. |
| Ability to provide feedback | Users can now provide feedback on the agent's responses using thumbs up and thumbs down buttons. |
Availability changes
Important
Factory Operations Agent is available in the United States region in Copilot Studio from January. Customers in this region won't require allowlisting.
November 2024
This article provides details about the latest updates to Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing, Public Preview version 1.0.0. To see a comprehensive list of enhancements, releases, and bug fixes, see the following resources:
| New Products | Description | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| Factory Safety Agent in Copilot Studio | Factory personnel can use a low-code, customizable agent designed for factory personnel safety. This agent offers features to streamline safety audits and personalize safety training for the workforce. | Factory Safety Agent in Copilot Studio |
| Factory Operations Agent in Copilot Studio | Factory managers and other users can access, query, and analyze operations data using a natural language interface. | Factory Operations Agent in Copilot Studio |
| New Features | Description | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| Bring Your Own Azure OpenAI resource | You can choose to deploy the current version of Manufacturing data solutions using Azure and bring your own Azure OpenAI resource. | Deploy Manufacturing data solutions in Azure AI |
| Feedback API | Users are able to provide feedback on agent responses. | Feedback API |
| Delete/Cleanup API | Admins can delete and manage existing data. | Cleanup Records API |
| Data versioning API | Admins can create versions of data loaded into Manufacturing data solutions, having one version active at a time. | Get Data Versions API |
| Reference architecture | Reference architecture is updated to reflect the current design. | Manufacturing data solutions and Factory Operations Agent reference architectures |
Performance improvements
| Improvement | Description |
|---|---|
| OPC UA Ingestion | Ingestion rate with Standard_S4 is 700 events/second. |
| Stream Ingestion | Ingestion rate with Standard_S2 is 200 events/second. |
| Telemetry data ingestion | For telemetry data, Equipment Property is tied with Equipment. Therefore, Equipment Property ID should be the unique/primary key of that twin. |
| Support of multiple tags for OPC UA data ingestion | For OPC UA, we now support multiple tags in the data payload. |
| OPC UA data ingestion improvements | For OPC UA, each Equipment Property twin is linked with a particular Equipment twin and ID is the PrimaryKey for Equipment Property. Note: Twin ID for Equipment Property is in the following format: <Equipment ID>_<Equipment Property ID>. |
| Updates to Open API specifications | The enum values now have the string representation of their values instead of the previous number representation. For details of updates to the API, see OpenAPI specifications. |
Agent improvements
| Improvement | Description |
|---|---|
| Validate API | Validate API supports test queries as conversation. |
| Deletion of instructions | Ability to delete single or multiple versions of instructions. |
| Enhancement of example creation API | The new version of example creation API supports multiple examples in the payload. The prior version only supported a single example in the payload. |
Security improvements
| Improvement | Description |
|---|---|
| Change in the use of secrets to managed identity | The Function App resource now is secretless and uses managed identity. |
Bug fixes
| Fix | Description |
|---|---|
| Batch Ingestion | Renamed ROW ID to PrimaryKey. |
| Stream Ingestion | Added a new column for PrimaryKey. |
| OPC UA data payload parsing fix | Retrieves correct payload value. |
| Generate query language fix | Fixed type casting issues. |
| Query fix | Improved extraction of proper nouns from query. |
| Error code fix for throttling | Report code for throttling exceptions is 429 instead of 500. |
| Consumption API fix for structured queries | Consumption API supports reference data (e.g., External ref ID, MES ref ID, etc.). |
Support changes
- All prior versions of Manufacturing data solutions are deprecated. Any deployments prior to version 0.8 can't upgrade to the latest 1.0 version. A redeployment to the latest version is required.
- Support for deployments in the East US region is being deprecated and revoked. Existing Manufacturing data solutions deployed in this region can't upgrade and need to be redeployed to a different region.
- Pipeline V1 and V2 for Factory Operations Agent in Azure AI are removed. The current pipeline is V3.
Behavioral changes
- Validation API for V3 pipeline in version 1.0 supports JSON payload instead of the file payload.
Apr 2024
| Feature | Documentation |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing data solutions in Microsoft Fabric (preview) | Overview of Manufacturing data solutions in Microsoft Fabric (preview) |
July 2023
| Feature | Documentation |
|---|---|
| International availability | International availability of Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing |