Accelerate innovation with AI: Introducing the Product Change Management agent template
Summary
Azure introduces a Product Change Management agent template that uses AI to orchestrate changes across equipment, products, and processes in manufacturing. It’s a concrete example of "agent-as-template" thinking, where Microsoft ships prebuilt agent workflows tailored to specific industry problems. ([microsoft.com](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/blog/?utm_source=openai))
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