Avanade Factory Agents and Analytics

Manufacturers continue to face external pressures on cost, agility and reliability to stay competitive. Producing with flexibility, low cost and high quality – is driving the need for transformation at scale.

AI promises endless opportunities to fundamentally transform the shop floor and the way factory workers operate. But data silos and missing contextualization of OT data hinder scalable AI adoption in manufacturing.

Factory Agents and Analytics powered by Avanade Manufacturing Data Solutions (MDS) on Microsoft Fabric, create a trusted, unified manufacturing data foundation with a pre-build industry standard based ISA-95 knowledge graph, that accelerates our client's journey for AI at scale in production.

On top of MDS, our pre-build conversational Factory Agent provides shopfloor workers with a new ‘talk to your factory’ functionality that allows them to interact with production data and leverage AI to get advanced insights simply by asking in natural language. Together with the Factory Analytics solution in Microsoft Fabric we enable:

• Transparency with Manufacturing KPI dashboards
• Fast reaction through real-time OT Intelligence
• Manufacturing insights by AI & advanced analytics
• Advanced ad-hoc decision support and root cause analysis by Factory Agent

With this solution we also create the foundation for Automation through Manufacturing AI Agents, simulation and advanced visualization.

Our unique approach:

Our templated solution approach based on solutions like Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and our own assets (Factory Agent and Manufacturing Data Solutions), enable an accelerated MVP approach ready to scale.

The ISA-95 graph enables many personas / use cases in production operations e.g. continuous improvements, root cause analysis, maintenance, quality, shift planning and handover, production management, etc.

MVP in 8-10 weeks on the client tenant with clients use case and data -key steps include:

• Optional step 1 (1 week): Ideation and digital Gemba walk – identify use cases and value
• Step 2 (1-2 weeks): Discovery – user journey and source data
• Step 3 (1 week): Preparation of technical environment and data mapping into ISA-95
• Step 4 (3-4 weeks): Deployment & Customization
• Step 5 (2-3 weeks): Connect & fine tune
• Step 6 (1 week): Testing and UAT

Expected outcomes:

Client Value of Factory Agent and Analytics MVP:

• Prove the value and experience the power of insights through natural language querying and correlation of data for improving production performance, worker efficiency and production quality
• Ready to scale with new personas and more factories
• Foundation for new agentic workflows and multi-agent solutions

Key deliverables:

Deployments on the client tenant: 

• Manufacturing Data Solutions with ISA-95 knowledge graph and mapped data from source systems
• Factory Agent for agreed persona/scenario

Ready to learn more? Whatever your goals and timeline, we can help you get started. Get in touch today to schedule a discovery call.

*Pricing subject to vary based on actual scope