Model Context Protocol (MCP)
IRIS Foundry for Microsoft Teams
The next evolution in AI-driven plant intelligence and collaboration.
IRIS Foundry for Microsoft Teams brings together live plant data, real-time alerting, asset diagnostics, and powerful AI – all delivered seamlessly inside your everyday workflow. Now fully integrated with Microsoft Copilot and powered by the Model Context Protocol (MCP), IRIS Foundry’s intelligence is available on demand, wherever work happens.
Manufacturing AI, where work happens
IRIS Foundry for Teams eliminates the friction of jumping between disconnected maintenance systems, data historians, and analytics dashboards. Now, plant operators, industrial engineers, and frontline teams access and act on real-time insights, diagnostics, and automation—directly from the collaboration backbone they already use.
Seamless Access for Teams M365 Copilot
Teams M365 Copilot, acting as an MCP client, can connect to the IRIS MCP server to query industrial intelligence directly from within the familiar Teams conversational interface. Users could ask, for example, “What’s causing the pressure spike at Pump-2?” or “Is any asset nearing its maintenance threshold?” and Copilot would fetch contextual answers from IRIS in real time.
Actionable Workflows via Teams M365 Copilot
Beyond querying data, Teams M365 Copilot can invoke IRIS-enabled actions—such as triggering an inspection, escalating alerts, or updating operational workflows—through MCP’s ability to expose callable tools. Users could say, “Initiate a diagnostic on Conveyor-5,” and Copilot would translate that into an MCP-mediated call to IRIS Foundry.
Dynamic, Extensible & No Custom Code Needed
MCP’s design allows new capabilities delivered by IRIS—such as updated KPIs, new diagnostic routines, or additional workflow options—to become immediately available to Teams M365 Copilot without custom integration work. This ensures future features plug in seamlessly, supporting extensibility and scalability.
Secure, Governed Access
MCP is built with security at its core. It employs standards like JSON-RPC 2.0 and supports authentication, capability negotiation, logging, and governance. In regulated industrial environments, IRIS’s MCP server can enforce strict access controls and audit trails—ensuring safe, compliant Copilot-driven interactions.
How it works: unified architecture for manufacturing AI
This architecture diagram illustrates the foundation powering the newly launched IRIS Foundry integration with Microsoft Teams, fully enabled by Microsoft Copilot and built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
At the core of the system is IRIS Foundry’s modular, scalable cloud platform, which connects real-time operational data, asset intelligence, and advanced AI into a unified architecture—accessible directly within Microsoft Teams.
Why choose IRIS Foundry for Microsoft Teams?
IRIS Foundry can act as an MCP server, exposing industrial data, semantic knowledge graphs, and AI services directly into Copilot Studio, making them available inside Microsoft Teams.
MCP lets IRIS provide Copilot with live, contextual updates (e.g., asset health, anomalies, KPIs) without custom integrations—new capabilities are auto-discoverable.
Beyond just data access, MCP surfaces actionable workflows (e.g., trigger maintenance, run diagnostics) as callable Copilot “skills,” enabling conversational AI to drive real industrial actions.
MCP ensures all interactions follow enterprise-grade governance and security, crucial for regulated industrial environments.
IRIS Foundry for Microsoft Teams FAQ
Have questions about IRIS Foundry for Microsoft Teams?
Explore answers to some of the most common questions here to see how our integrated industrial AI platform can transform your operations. Don’t see your question listed? Reach out to our team today to discuss your questions.
IRIS Foundry is an manufacturing AI platform that brings real-time plant data, diagnostics, and automated workflows into Microsoft Teams using Copilot and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This integration enables frontline teams to access insights, manage alerts, and act on intelligence directly within their everyday collaboration tool.
IRIS Foundry unifies data from maintenance systems, historians, control systems, IoT devices, and more. It is designed to work with modern and legacy platforms, providing a single contextualized view across your entire operation.
IRIS Foundry for Teams is built on Microsoft Azure and certified for Microsoft Manufacturing AI, ensuring enterprise-grade security, regulatory compliance, and robust data governance across all deployments.
Yes. With Microsoft Copilot Studio, you can build domain-specific copilots tailored to your KPIs, compliance standards, and workflows—delivering intelligence that is relevant to your teams and assets.
Deployment is fast and leverages your existing Microsoft infrastructure. SymphonyAI provides onboarding, training, and ongoing support to ensure rapid adoption and operational success.
IRIS Foundry delivers unified context, AI-driven insights, and operational automation natively inside Microsoft Teams—empowering frontline workers and accelerating ROI, while offering secure, scalable integration for manufacturing and energy companies.
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