United Manufacturing Hub (UMH)
Open-source industrial data infrastructure provider, powering real-time, AI-ready factories
The problem
Manufacturers are investing heavily in digital tools, automation, and AI—but most initiatives fail to scale. Factory data is locked in proprietary machines, siloed software systems, and fragile point-to-point integrations. Accessing, cleaning, and contextualising this data often takes months, leaving teams without real-time visibility and making advanced analytics and AI deployment slow, costly, or unfeasible. Despite a global manufacturing software market exceeding $50B, the fundamental bottleneck remains the data layer. Without a shared, reliable foundation connecting shop-floor systems with IT and analytics, factories struggle to move beyond pilots and achieve measurable operational impact.
The solution
United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) has built an industrial data platform that unifies factory data into a real-time Unified Namespace, replacing brittle integrations with a scalable, interoperable structure. Machines, sensors, and enterprise systems are connected through standardised interfaces, with data cleaned and contextualised into a single source of truth usable by any application—without custom integration work. This foundation enables manufacturers to deploy operational KPIs, energy and resource tracking, condition monitoring, and industrial AI in weeks rather than months, turning fragmented shop-floor data into reliable input for modern analytics and intelligent systems.
