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A Unified Namespace (UNS) is a real-time information backbone where systems publish and subscribe to structured manufacturing events. Manufacturers are adopting UNS-based architectures to simplify real-time integrations and enable event-driven applications.
While UNS is not a requirement to use Critical Manufacturing MES, we fully support customers who rely on it as their real-time data distribution layer.
Critical Manufacturing provides native, CDM-aligned, real-time publishing to any MQTT Broker, making it easier, faster, and more reliable to feed operational data into your existing architecture.
Many organizations use UNS to enable edge-to-cloud workflows or consolidate OT/IT data streams.
Critical Manufacturing supports your UNS strategy by delivering pre-structured standard manufacturing events the Canonical Data Model (CDM), fully contextualized with the ISA-95. These events map what happens in your shop floor, from machine integration, to material operations and maintenance activities.
Whether you are standardizing on UNS or expanding an existing architecture, Critical Manufacturing ensures your MES delivers the right data in the right format instantly.
Get clean, contextual, manufacturing-grade events that plug directly into your UNS hierarchy.
Publish MES events to UNS with built-in MQTT. No middleware, scripting, or data modeling.
CDM ensures standardized data across all plants, making UNS topic design dramatically easier.
Connect MES to your UNS within hours, not months, with Critical Manufacturing’s native event structure.
Critical Manufacturing does not require UNS, but we make UNS adoption dramatically simpler for customers who choose it.
Our platform includes a built-in MQTT driver and native support for CDM events, enabling seamless publication into your existing UNS.
No custom development. No middleware. No duplicated modeling.
Critical Manufacturing adapts to any UNS topic hierarchy you choose, whether based on ISA-95 or custom naming conventions. Real-time MES events are published within milliseconds, ensuring your UNS always reflects the latest operational state.
Based on your preferred hierarchy and naming conventions
Within milliseconds of MES events
Across multiple production areas
With queueing, reconnection, and TLS encryption
Published instantly for any application to consume
If your enterprise applications, analytics platforms, or automation systems rely on UNS topics, Critical Manufacturing’s MES ensures that your MES contributes high-quality, contextualized events to that ecosystem.
Real-time publishing of inspection failures or deviations.
Instant distribution of equipment states, production progress, and OEE-related events.
Stream genealogy, material movements, consumption updates, and more.
Feed contextual MES events directly into HMIs, mobile apps, and visualization tools.
This is the first article of a series on how Critical Manufacturing is democratizing manufacturing data analytics. We start with insights on the Canonical Data Model and how we built it to give data the value manufacturers need.
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