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Workflow Management
Visualize Work. Synchronize Teams. Achieve Results. Design, deploy and monitor digital workflows that connect people, systems and equipment, with embedded approvals and complete audit trails.
The challenge
Manufacturing operations increasingly demand seamless coordination across roles, shifts and departments. Paper-based workflows, ad-hoc communications and inconsistent practices create bottlenecks, delays and compliance risks.
Overview
The LOGICAL SYSTEMS Workflow Management (WFM) application moves operations from isolated task execution to enterprise-wide process orchestration. Built on the Inductive Automation Ignition platform, it lets organisations design, deploy and monitor digital workflows that connect people, systems and equipment. A visual modelling environment, reusable workflow templates and event-driven automation standardise best practices quickly, and the system integrates with existing automation and business infrastructure without disrupting ongoing operations.
Governed version control, embedded approvals and real-time dashboards enforce compliance while enabling continuous improvement, and the app scales from permits-to-work and deviation handling to enterprise-level coordination across multiple sites. Within the LOGICAL SYSTEMS suite, WFM acts as the orchestration layer: falling OEE indicators start root-cause analysis workflows, operator tasks appear in TMS, maintenance issues launch work order workflows in CMMS, energy threshold breaches in EMS trigger corrective actions, and UNS shares workflow events across systems and sites.
Typical results
Typical results reported in the WFM datasheet. Results depend on each site's starting point and scope.
Capabilities
What WFM does
Visual Workflow Design & Deployment
- Visual workflow modelling: drag-and-drop design across roles, departments and systems
- Process definitions as governed digital blueprints with versioning, review and publishing
- Template library: permit-to-work, deviation handling, incident reporting, batch approvals, shift coordination
- Reusable step library: approvals, escalations, notifications, alarm response, CMMS work orders, historian queries
- Custom step builder for organisation-specific steps in unique processes
- Workflow templatisation for re-use across plants and global consistency
Seamless Integration Across the Suite
- OEE: falling performance indicators trigger root-cause analysis workflows
- TMS: operator tasks generated within workflows appear directly for execution
- CMMS: maintenance issues automatically launch work order workflows
- EMS: energy threshold breaches trigger corrective actions
- WMS: replenishment workflows driven by real-time material shortages
- UNS: workflow events shared seamlessly across systems and sites
Key Features
- Version control with draft, review, publish and archive states
- Event-driven automation triggered by alarms, historian conditions, sensors or schedules
- Real-time dashboards for workflow execution, KPIs and bottleneck analysis
- Embedded compliance capturing approvals, e-signatures and deviations
- Global scalability from single-line pilots to enterprise rollouts
Benefits
Why manufacturers choose WFM
Faster process cycles
Automated routing and escalations deliver 20-30% faster process cycles.
Less downtime
Event-driven triggers respond instantly to alarms, data conditions and schedules, reducing downtime by 10-15%.
Audit-ready compliance
Approvals, safety checks and escalations are enforced by design, and digital evidence creates a complete audit trail.
Consistency at scale
Reusable templates standardise workflows across sites and shifts and adapt locally with minimal effort, while execution data feeds continuous improvement.
Faster deployment
Prebuilt workflow steps and templates cut the time needed to roll out new processes.
Stronger collaboration
Clear ownership at every step removes manual routing errors across production, quality, maintenance and safety teams.
Ask WFM in plain language
LS Assistant, the AI assistant in every Logical Systems application, answers questions from your live WFM 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
- OEE
- TMS
- CMMS
- EMS
- WMS
- UNS
- historian
- MQTT
- OPC UA
- OPC DA
- REST API (JSON payloads)
- Kafka (via connector)
- Snowflake (via pipeline, data bridge)
Datasheet
Workflow Management datasheetWorks with
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See WFM in action
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