EAIIntegration & Data
Enterprise Application Integration
Unify Systems. Eliminate Silos. Drive Agility. Real-time integration hub built on Ignition, connecting ERP, MES, WMS, LIMS, historians and cloud platforms with visual flows, validation and monitoring.
The challenge
Modern manufacturers depend on a diverse mix of ERP, MES, WMS, LIMS, historians, IoT devices and cloud platforms. When these systems remain disconnected, critical data is trapped in silos, slowing decisions, creating operational blind spots and amplifying errors. Traditional integration approaches are often brittle, custom-coded and difficult to maintain, leaving IT teams struggling to keep pace.
Overview
The LOGICAL SYSTEMS Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) app transforms fragmented endpoints into a cohesive, real-time integration fabric. Built on Ignition® and proven integration patterns, it orchestrates data flows across production, logistics and enterprise layers. By extending existing SCADA infrastructure into a unified integration hub, EAI lets operational systems, enterprise applications and on-premise or cloud services communicate as one, preserving past investments while creating a scalable foundation for the future.
Unlike conventional middleware that obscures processes, EAI emphasises transparency and control through intuitive mapping, flow design and monitoring dashboards. Engineers, supervisors and managers gain full visibility into the health and performance of every integration, from messages processed and average latency to error frequency and retry success, and can link integration performance to order fulfilment, batch release time or supply chain agility. EAI scales from a single-site pilot to global, multi-tenant enterprise deployments without re-architecting.
Typical results
Typical results reported in the EAI datasheet. Results depend on each site's starting point and scope.
Capabilities
What EAI does
Connectivity & Integration
- Pre-built connectors for ERP, MES, WMS, LIMS and cloud platforms
- Support for REST, SOAP, MQTT, OPC UA, Kafka and file/SFTP protocols
- Centralised payload definitions with schema mapping and transformation
- Reusable validation rules for master data, quality and compliance checks
Flow Orchestration
- Visual flow designer for drag-and-drop integration logic
- Conditional routing, enrichment and transformation nodes
- End-to-end transaction tracking with error handling and retries
- Reusable templates for common scenarios such as work orders, recipes and lab results
Monitoring & Governance
- Real-time dashboards for throughput, latency and success rates
- Centralised error queue with alerting and escalation workflows
- Audit trail for regulatory compliance and change tracking
- Multi-site visibility with unified monitoring across plants and partners
Data Quality & Validation
- Built-in library of reusable validation rules, e.g. material code, temperature range, batch format
- On-failure actions such as alerting, rejection or rerouting to error queues
- Inline enrichment with master data for consistency across systems
- Configurable severity levels to match operational risk profiles
Scalability & Performance
- Horizontal scaling across multiple plants, sites and partners
- High-volume throughput with store-and-forward reliability
- Cloud-ready architecture with hybrid on-premise deployment options
- Enterprise-grade security with authentication, authorisation and encryption
API & Event Services
- Auto-generated REST and SOAP endpoints for exposing integration logic
- Real-time event streaming into Kafka, Azure IoT and other cloud hubs
- Message queuing for asynchronous, decoupled integration
- Secure file transfer and batch processing for legacy system support
Benefits
Why manufacturers choose EAI
Accelerated digitalisation
Replaces brittle point-to-point links with a flexible integration hub that is reusable, monitored and transparent.
Faster integration projects
30–50% faster integration projects through reusable mappings and templates.
Lower IT maintenance costs
Reduces IT maintenance costs with centralised monitoring and self-service configuration.
Consistent enterprise data
Delivers enterprise-wide data consistency across ERP, MES, WMS, LIMS and cloud applications.
Better decision-making
Real-time visibility into integration health and flows improves decision-making, with dashboards engineers and business leaders can trust.
Protected past investments
Extends existing SCADA infrastructure into a unified integration hub, preserving past investments while creating a scalable foundation.
Ask EAI in plain language
LS Assistant, the AI assistant in every Logical Systems application, answers questions from your live EAI records and shows the sources behind every answer. It keeps learning as your records, work instructions and resolved issues grow, and your data is never used to train AI models.
Answers with sources
Every answer cites the records and work instructions it used.
Your role, your site
It sees only what each user is allowed to see.
Asks before it acts
Every change it proposes needs a person's confirmation and is audited.
18 languages, voice on mobile
Questions, answers and content in your teams' languages.
Integration
Connects to the systems you run
Systems & protocols
- ERP
- MES
- WMS
- LIMS
- Historians
- IoT
- SCADA
- Cloud platforms
- REST API
- SOAP
- MQTT
- OPC UA
- OPC DA
- Kafka
- Snowflake
- Azure IoT
- File/SFTP
Works with
Related solutions
See EAI in action
Book a demo with our engineers, using scenarios from your own plant.