The Manufacturing AI Copilot & Insights Agent is a build-to-order Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central extension that puts a natural-language assistant on top of your production data. Instead of hopping between the Released Production Orders list, Item Availability by BOM Level, and the Requisition Worksheet, a plant manager simply asks: "Which orders are at risk this week?" or "Why is order PO-10421 late?" — and gets a grounded, data-backed answer.

This is not an instant AppSource download. ECOSIRE builds the extension in AL, tailors it to your routings, work centers, BOM structure, and shop-floor data, then installs it as a per-tenant extension directly on your Business Central environment (cloud SaaS or on-prem). We configure it, hand over the permission sets, and support it.

Under the hood, the Copilot is implemented with table and page extensions plus event subscribers that read live production data through Business Central's own object model and the REST/OData v4 API. Natural-language questions are routed through a governed prompt layer (built on the Copilot/Azure OpenAI pattern Microsoft supports for BC) that maps intent to safe, read-only AL queries — never free-form SQL against your tenant. A Job Queue entry runs the nightly at-risk scan and assembles the auto-summarized daily shop-floor status. Optional Power Platform / Dataverse integration lets the same insights surface in Power BI or a Teams channel.

Everything respects Business Central permissions: the agent only sees what the calling user's permission set allows. Recommendations (reschedule, replenish, expedite) are surfaced as suggested actions a planner reviews and confirms — the human stays in control. You get AI-assisted visibility without ripping out or replacing the manufacturing module you already run.