The complete toolkit for your Unified Namespace
Give every plant one source of truth, and every system the same language. FlowFuse connects the machines you already run and turns their data into live information your whole business can act on. Build your UNS once, then roll it out to every site.
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Where UNS projects get stuck
One source of truth sounds simple. The trouble starts when you try to build it, and it usually starts in the same six places.
- 01
Most machines don't speak MQTT
Legacy PLCs, SCADA and serial devices get left out of the namespace because nothing reads them.
- 02
Point-to-point links keep breaking
Every new system needs a custom link to every other system, and each one breaks on its own.
- 03
Raw values have no meaning
A register address like %MW104 tells the MES, the dashboard or the analyst nothing at all.
- 04
Every layer is a separate product
The broker, the integrations and the applications each need their own tool, vendor and team.
- 05
The topic tree drifts
As more teams publish, topic names and payloads stop matching and consumers break.
- 06
Every plant starts from scratch
What worked at the first site gets rebuilt by hand at the next, and the two drift apart.
Every layer of your UNS, in one platform
Each of those problems lives at a different layer. FlowFuse answers every one, so you build your whole UNS in one place instead of stitching together a separate tool for each layer.
Connect & Collect
Bring every machine into the namespace
A UNS only works if every machine publishes to it, and most plant equipment doesn't speak MQTT.
- Connect over certified OPC UA, Modbus, Siemens S7 and EtherNet/IP nodes, plus 5,000+ other integrations
- Read from PLCs, SCADA and historians without changing a line of PLC logic
- Collect at the edge, right beside your machines, and send a value only when it changes
Transform & Contextualize
Give every value a name, a unit and a place
A raw register means nothing to the MES, the dashboard or the analyst reading it.
- Rename cryptic tags: %MW104 becomes filler/temperature in °C
- Organize every value by site, area, line and machine, following ISA-95
- Give MES, dashboards and analysts data they can use without a tag list from the PLC programmer
Transport
Run your namespace on a built-in MQTT broker
The broker is the hub of a UNS, where every producer publishes and every consumer subscribes.
- Use the MQTT broker built into FlowFuse, with nothing extra to install
- Or keep the MQTT broker you already run and manage it from FlowFuse
- Run plain MQTT and Sparkplug B in the same namespace
Browse & Manage
Keep the namespace consistent as it grows
A UNS falls apart when every team names topics its own way.
- See every topic in your namespace as a live tree
- Get topic schemas generated from live data and documented for you
- Give every team, at every plant, the same documented structure to build against
AI
Map thousands of tags in minutes, not weeks
Mapping tags into a hierarchy is the slowest part of building any UNS.
- Describe your register map to FlowFuse Expert, and it builds the flows that name, scale and place every tag
- Or connect the AI agent your company already approved, such as Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT, to do the same work
- Nothing is deployed until an engineer has reviewed and approved it
Manage & Scale
Run every plant's UNS from one place
A UNS proves itself on one line and pays off only when every plant runs it the same way.
- See every plant's instances, versions and changes in one view
- Promote changes from dev to test to production, with one-click rollback
- Roll the proven setup out to the next site without rebuilding it
Built to pass IT review at every plant
Rolling your UNS out to every plant means IT has to approve each one. FlowFuse is SOC 2 Type I and Type II certified, with single sign-on, role-based access, audit logs, and self-hosted or air-gapped options for sites that can't use the cloud.
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Single Sign-On
Audit Logs
Role-Based Access Control
Air-Gapped / Self-Hosted Deployment
You're never alone, and never locked in
Software is only half of a UNS rollout. We become part of your team from the first plant, and stay long after the last one goes live.
Built with your team
Our engineers work alongside yours to design the namespace and deliver the first plant, then stay close whenever a site needs help. See how we build with your team.
No lock-in, ever
FlowFuse is built on open-source Node-RED and MQTT. Your flows, topics and schemas belong to you, and your team can change them without waiting on us.
Your team grows with it
Your engineers learn by building alongside ours, and come away able to run and extend it on their own.
From IT and OT teams
What customers say about FlowFuse
A UNS succeeds when OT gets every machine connected and IT can govern it at scale. Here's how both teams describe taking FlowFuse from one site to many.
Read customer stories“We started using Node-RED at the plant level, but FlowFuse is what turned it into an enterprise-grade solution. Everything runs centrally from corporate IT, across multiple plants, with the dev and production pipelines and controls our organization requires.”
James Wise
Sr. Product Owner, Milliken & Company
Unified Namespace resources
Guides and deep dives on building a UNS, from structuring topics to choosing a broker.
Why FlowFuse is the Complete Toolkit for Building Your UNS
Designing a Clear Topic Structure for Your UNS
MQTT: The Frontrunner for Your UNS Broker
Data Modeling: The Key to a Successful Unified Namespace
Unified Namespace and FlowFuse: FAQs
Start with the line that's hardest to connect
Tell us what equipment it runs. We'll show you its data in your namespace, named and in context, and how the same setup reaches every other site.