Manufacturing scenario: Product predictive capabilities
AI can help manufacturers respond to customer requests for new products and even predict future customer needs for products that do not exist today.
Customer reference: Dow Inc. uses AI to create new products
Customer reference: Fashable reimagines the future of fashion design
Available with: Copilot Studio/GitHub and Azure AI Foundry Scenario level:
KPIs impacted
Time to market
Customer satisfaction
Value benefit
Revenue growth
Use Azure to build AI assisted product design
1. Gather customer requirements
Work with customers to understand their needs and enter the requirements into the product agent.
Copilot Studio Agent
Benefit: Enable customers to communicate requirements is a way that makes sense to them.
2. Search product catalog
The agent translates the design requirements into product specifications and searches the product catalog for matching products.
Copilot Studio Agent
Benefit: Engineers can quickly find a suitable product design or formulation. The site can offer detailed images and design specifications to help guide the decision.
3. Speed product development
If there are no existing products that fit the design requirements offer to generate a design prototype for the customer.
Copilot Studio Agent
Benefit: The product engineer can use the agent to analyze prior product research to speed development time.
4. Ask the agent for new product ideas
With access to the customer’s past requests, the current product database and available research the agent can make predictions about future customer needs.
Copilot Studio Agent
Benefit: Propose new products or product updates to customers to drive increased sales.
5. Finalize the design
A technical resource can now meet with the customer to finalize new product designs.
Copilot Studio Agent
Benefit: Engineers can focus on complex tasks and research, while repetitive work is automated.
1Access Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat at m365copilot.com or the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat mobile app and set toggle to “Web".
2Access Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat at mm365copilot.com, the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat mobile app or the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat app in Microsoft Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.
3Copilot agents allow Microsoft 365 Copilot to access your organization-specific apps. In the past, this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record. The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.
