What are flows?
Flows are low-code any-to-any data processing pipelines that let you ingest, transform and enrich operational data in real time from any OT, ET, or IT source across your industrial infrastructure.
Deploy flows at the edge, on-premises, or in the cloud. Add advanced real-time processing, stream analytics and logic to your integration and ETL pipelines and get ready-to-use data in minutes.
Build pipelines in minutes
Drag-and-drop flow studio with 200+ prebuilt modules and 800+ connectors across:
- Historians, SCADA, and industrial protocols
- AI, analytics, and enterprise systems
Operate at scale without the complexity
Deploy flows anywhere in your infrastructure and monitor every pipeline across every site centrally from the flow manager.
Add intelligence at the source
Run stream analytics, event processing and AI inference directly in your pipelines. Act on data the moment it’s generated, before it reaches its destination.
Flows – how it works
Build, test, deploy, and manage centrally from CONNECT using flow manager.
Real-time intelligence for every use case
Whether you are connecting machines on the factory floor or business systems across the enterprise, flows turn data in motion into real-time intelligence.
Sync all your OT and IT data from 800+ different systems with ease.
Transform operational data into a standardized UNS data structure with built-in MQTT broker.
Run trained AI models at the edge for anomaly detection, quality inspection, and motion detection or any other AI-powered use case across all sites.
Add real-time ETL, logic, calculations, stream analytics, and AI inference to existing systems to deliver real-time insights.
Edge pre-processing, transformation, and enrichment with real-time stream and event processing and analytics.
Integrate ET, OT, SaaS applications, and cloud platforms to accelerate your digital initiatives. Build real-time and smart automations and workflows across all layers in your organization.
Feature highlights
Connectors
For OT, IT, enterprise, SaaS, and cloud, including Universal Connector for any REST API.
Conditions, calculations & logic
Apply advanced conditions, rules, logic, and calculations to your data.
Transform, enrich, and map data
Transform, harmonize, enrich, and restructure data. Map data to a unified namespace or data model.
AI inference
Run ML and AI model inference on live data in motion, including video and audio feeds.
Event & stream analytics
Event and stream analytics for data in motion. Analyze each stream independently across thousands of data points.
Automations & workflows
Build closed-loop automations and workflows for any data from any data source.
FAQs
Flows run on lightweight runtimes deployable anywhere—at the edge, on-premises, or in the cloud. All runtimes are managed centrally from CONNECT.
Flows are available in CONNECT with single sign-on. Build, deploy, and monitor every pipeline from the flow manager.
Find answers to your technical questions and learn how to set up and use flows through the user documentation portal at docs.aveva.com
