Connections

Read the systems you already run

No replacement, no migration, no middleware project. Point FactoryThread at a source, keep it read-only, and add write-back only when you want the action to land back in the system of record.

Read-only by default
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SSO and role-based access
Full audit trail
Export everything, always

Every Connection that ships

What a Connection is allowed to do

The question IT asks first is never which systems you can read. It is what happens to them once you can.

Read-only by default

A new Connection reads. Nothing is written back to a source system until someone configures a node that writes and says which system it may write to.

No copy of your estate

A Flow reads when it runs. There is no separate warehouse to fill first, no nightly sync to keep honest, and no second copy of the data going stale beside the first.

Cloud or self-hosted

If the data cannot leave the network, run the instance inside it. The same Connections, the same Flows, on your own infrastructure.

→ Access, hosting and the rest of the security posture

Where teams usually connect first

Almost nobody starts with the ERP. They start with whatever is closest to the question they are trying to answer, which is usually smaller and messier than the systems on the architecture diagram — and that is fine, because the first Connection only has to be enough to draw one Dashboard somebody wanted.

The second Connection is the one that changes things. Joining two sources is the point at which a question stops being answerable in either system on its own, and it is also the point at which the cost of the third and fourth collapses.

The spreadsheet someone rebuilds every week

Usually the fastest first Connection in the building, and often the one that turns out to be the real system of record.

The plant database nobody documented

SQL Server, PostgreSQL, an Access file on a share. First-class sources, not a special case.

The machines themselves

Counters, states and process values over OPC UA or MQTT, without a historian sitting in between.

If it has an endpoint, a database or a file

Bespoke systems are normal in manufacturing — the machine gateway somebody wrote in 2011, the vendor feed with a documentation PDF and no support line, the internal service that only one person understands. Reaching those is part of the product rather than a services engagement: REST, OData and SOAP are shipped Connections, and a system with any of the three is reachable whether or not its vendor appears in the grid above.

→ What gets built on top of them

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