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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.
| AutomAssist | Point-to-point integration | Generalist AI / RAG | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Approach | Connect-first, read your sources as they are | Wire each pair by hand | Migrate into their cloud & format |
| Cross-system questions | Yes — joined by the Knowledge Graph | Only the pairs you pre-built | No structural join across systems |
| New question = new report | No — ask in natural language | Yes | Often |
| Migration required | None (read-only) | Partial / ETL | Yes |
| Documents + schematics | Indexed, schematic-aware, 15+ languages | Out of scope | Generic, 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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