Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft Collaborate to Develop Agentic Factory Intelligence System

Published: 2026-04-20 05:20:34 ET ACN

Published on 04/20/2026 at 05:20 am EDT

Accenture and Avanade are co-developing an agentic factory intelligence system with Microsoft to help companies reinvent factory operations through seamless collaboration between humans, machines, AI agents and data. The agentic factory is an intelligence system built on the Accenture and Avanade Factory Agents and Analytics offering. It uses Microsoft technologies including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Copilot and is delivered via a subscription model that allows clients to start small and scale as value is proven.

The new product brings together structured data (from manufacturing execution systems, condition monitoring, control and alerting systems, machine and sensor telemetry, and historians) and data from unstructured sources (failure mode and effects analysis documentation, operator and machine manuals, and maintenance records). Using Fabric as the unified data foundation and Foundry to reason across these sources, AI agents deliver contextual, role-specific guidance directly at the point of work through conversational interfaces.