Overview of Factory Operations Agent in Copilot Studio
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Some or all of this functionality is available as part of a preview release. The content and the functionality are subject to change.
The Factory Operations Agent is designed to provide easy setup, management, testing, installation, and consumption experiences for the Manufacturing data solutions assistive experience for factory operator personnel. This low-code version agent is part of the Microsoft Copilot Studio suite of tools that lets you build intelligent, actionable, and connected AI assistants to support employees and customers. It's easy to integrate such an agent within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, including everyday tools like Microsoft Teams. It helps the IT administrator to install and set up the assistive experience, and onboard the factory team members who use it to get insights and answers to questions related to all forms of manufacturing data.
The solution is customizable, so you can tailor it to your organization's specific needs. It's possible to publish the agent in different Microsoft 365 compliant front-end apps based on common practices across your organization. It can also be published as a web interface and be integrated with other applications that the factory floor operations personnel usually engage with.
The agent helps to reduce friction in onboarding the Manufacturing data solutions agent capability by providing guidance and answers to common questions in deploying or setting up the service. It also helps to simplify the authorization and authentication issues to distribute the Factory Operations Agent to all users.
The use cases for the agent include:
- Administrators can use it as an onboarding assistant to install, configure, and manage the Factory Operations Agent.
- After deployment and setup, administrators can test the Factory Operations Agent with predefined sample questions.
- Administrators can publish the Factory Operations Agent in Microsoft 365 applications such as Microsoft Teams, or as a web app (for example, within a custom KPI dashboard). This step enables team members in the factory to use it as an assistant for data-related and insight-related questions, significantly increasing their efficiency for data-intensive tasks like root-cause analysis.
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To get started with the Factory Operations Agent in Copilot Studio, see Install Factory Operations Agent in Copilot Studio.