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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform

  • Overview of the Power Platform components (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Dataverse)
  • Typical use cases in industrial and engineering organizations
  • The Low-Code / No-Code paradigm and its strategic benefits for corporations
  • Licensing models, environment architecture, and governance frameworks

Power Apps Fundamentals

  • App categories (Canvas vs. Model-Driven)
  • Anatomy of a Canvas app: screens, components, controls, and layout management
  • Key data sources: SharePoint, Excel, SQL Server, and Dataverse
  • Integration with existing data lists and libraries
  • Implementing data validation and conditional logic

Practical Exercises:

  • Developing an inventory management app featuring inputs, outputs, and critical level alerts
  • Building an equipment control and calibration app with expiration date management and status tracking

Automation with Power Automate

  • Flow categories: automated, instant, and scheduled
  • Understanding triggers and actions: initiating flows and connecting tools
  • Seamless integration with Power Apps (via buttons and trigger forms)
  • Managing conditions, approval chains, notifications, and automated record-keeping
  • Best practices for designing reusable flows

Practical Exercises:

  • Automating the test request (ST) process including approval steps
  • Setting up automatic alerts for equipment due for calibration
  • Implementing automatic logging of stock movements

Guided Development: Corporate Projects

  • Efficient requirements gathering sessions with participants
  • Collaborative design of real-world company screens and flows
  • Construction of functional prototypes under instructor supervision
  • Validation, refinement, and simulated testing

Best Practices, Governance, and Maintenance

  • Environment management strategies (Development, Testing, Production)
  • Administering permissions and ensuring data security
  • Documentation and version control for apps and flows
  • Best practices for ongoing maintenance and scalability
  • Strategic planning for solution evolution post-training

Requirements

  • Familiarity with business process workflows
  • Practical experience with Microsoft 365 tools (e.g., SharePoint, Excel)

Target Audience

  • Process owners and analysts within industrial and engineering sectors
  • IT support personnel and citizen developers
  • Managers seeking to automate and digitize their workflows

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