New in Power Automate: Industrial App Store

Today, we have a single new Power Automate connector which brings the total to 344 Connectors. Today’s connector is Industrial App Store which offers an interesting approach to enhancing your data.

I reached out to Jason Cook, Business Development Manager of Intelligent Plant who helped me understand how this new connector works. Industrial App Store offers a collection of apps that enhance data stored in existing data silos.

To use it, you’ll install App Store Connect and setup you data stores from there. The App Store offers various industrial system apps, such as a Flow measurement app for pumps or other industrial controls. Once you have the App Store Connect installed, you’ll be able to purchase, setup and install various prepackaged apps available to you. These are not limited to apps by Intelligent Plant.

Think of the apps as small software components used by a variety industrial plants to measure and analyze data from various hardware systems. Instead of developing control systems, plant managers can use and choose from a variety of apps by other vendors through the app store while avoiding expensive custom software solutions.

The Power Automate connector then allows these systems to be read by processes triggered through some other way. This connector offers read-only access to the data from the Industrial App Store and has no triggers to kick off a Power Automate process.

Here’s an example of how to use this connector:

For all questions related to this new connector, we recommend you reach out to Intelligent Plant: [email protected].

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