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Your systems don’t talk to each other. Make them queryable.

CMMS, ERP, SCADA, MES, documents — the answer to most plant questions lives across several of them at once. Connecting them is not another integration project. It is a queryable layer, joined by a Knowledge Graph, read-only, with zero migration.

THE REAL PROBLEM It isn’t a lack of data. It’s data locked in silos.

The work order lives in the CMMS. The production order for the same machine lives in the ERP — usually under a different reference. The alarm flashed on the SCADA. The procedure that resolves it sits in a PDF on SharePoint, in German, scanned in 2014. Every system holds part of the answer; none holds the whole one.

So the work that should take minutes takes an hour and fifty-two minutes. Not because the information is missing — because no one, and no single AI agent, can reach across the systems that hold it.

WHY THE USUAL APPROACH STALLS Point-to-point integration never finishes.

The instinct is to wire system A to system B. Then C asks for B. Then a new question needs A and D. Connectors multiply, each one brittle, each release a regression risk — and every new question still ends as a custom report someone builds by hand.

  • N×N connectorsevery pair you wire is one more thing to maintain when either side changes.
  • ETL rebuildscopying data into a warehouse means it is stale the moment a shift logs a new event.
  • A report per questionthe integration is never “done” — leadership asks something new, and you build another extract.
  • Rip-and-replaceplatforms that promise unification usually want you to migrate into their format and their vocabulary.

THE MODEL A queryable layer, not another integration.

AutomAssist puts one dedicated AI agent on each data source and reads it as it is — no migration, no normalisation, read-only. The agents are wired into a Knowledge Graph that lets a question travel across systems. You keep every tool your teams already use; you add the ability to ask them anything, in natural language, in 15+ languages.

  • DocumentsSharePoint, Drive, OneDrive, NAS, CMMS attachments — text, OCR, electrical and pneumatic schematics, with line-level citations.
  • CMMS / GMAOwork orders flow both ways. Odoo, SAP PM, Maximo, Carl, Coswin and more, through the connector or the API.
  • ERPa secure read-only connector indexes what matters — query fabrication orders in plain language, no SAP expertise required.
  • SCADA / PLCOPC-UA, MQTT, native SDKs. The cryptic error code becomes the exact passage of the manual that resolves it.
  • MESlots, batches and quality events indexed for cross-system traceability and root cause.
  • Production analyticshistorians (PI, Wonderware, InfluxDB, Timescale) queried in natural language instead of 47 static dashboards.

WHAT THE GRAPH ADDS The Knowledge Graph sees what isolated tables cannot.

A flat table answers “what is the value of X.” A graph answers “why.” A bad lot in the MES can be linked to a parameter drift on the machine and to a procedure change in the documents — across three systems, in one answer. The graph is not a static integration; the relationships compose themselves as you connect more sources.

Connected data reveals what isolated systems cannot.

The AutomAssist Knowledge Graph

HOW IT STAYS SAFE Connect-first, read-only, zero migration.

  • Read-only by defaultagents read your sources; nothing is moved or rewritten without an explicit, audited action.
  • Your data stays where you decideSaaS, your own Azure tenant, or fully air-gapped on-premise with a local model.
  • Standard connectorsOPC-UA and MQTT for live streams, secure read-only links for ERP/CMMS, an open API for the rest.
  • Operational in daysconnect a source, sync, start asking — no model training, no data labelling, no rip-and-replace.

IN CONTEXT How this differs from the alternatives.

AutomAssistPoint-to-point integrationGeneralist AI / RAG
ApproachConnect-first, read your sources as they areWire each pair by handMigrate into their cloud & format
Cross-system questionsYes — joined by the Knowledge GraphOnly the pairs you pre-builtNo structural join across systems
New question = new reportNo — ask in natural languageYesOften
Migration requiredNone (read-only)Partial / ETLYes
Documents + schematicsIndexed, schematic-aware, 15+ languagesOut of scopeGeneric, not schematic-aware

Connectivity vendors are great at real-time data but blind to documents, work orders and ERP. The graph is what ties all six sources together.

FAQ What integration teams ask first.

Do we have to migrate our data?
No. AutomAssist reads your sources as they are, through read-only connectors. There is no data warehouse to fill, no normalisation, no rip-and-replace. Your tools keep running exactly as they do today.
Which systems can you connect?
Documents (SharePoint, Drive, OneDrive, NAS), CMMS/GMAO (Odoo, SAP PM, Maximo, Carl, Coswin and others), ERP, SCADA/PLC via OPC-UA and MQTT, MES (SAP ME, Critical Manufacturing, Aveva), and production historians (PI, Wonderware, InfluxDB, Timescale). Anything else connects through the open API.
How long does it take to get a first answer?
A few days. You connect one source, sync, and start asking questions. There is no model training or data labelling step — the value shows up as soon as the first source is connected.
Is it secure? Where does our data live?
Read-only by default, with three deployment modes: our isolated SaaS, your own Azure tenant, or fully air-gapped on-premise with a local model for classified environments. Your data stays where you decide.
How is this different from connecting our CMMS to our ERP?
A point-to-point CMMS–ERP link answers the one question you wired it for. The Knowledge Graph lets a question travel across all your systems — documents, SCADA, MES included — and composes new relationships as you add sources, without building a new connector each time.

See your own systems answer a question.

Bring one real cross-system question — we’ll show it answered against connected sources, not a sandbox.

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