Hannover, April 24, 2026 – i-flow GmbH reports a highly successful participation at this year’s Hannover Messe 2026. At the center of its presence was the introduction of a new approach to industrial system integration: factories that connect themselves within a global Unified Namespace (UNS). Under the guiding theme “i-flow kicks-off the era of self-connecting factories”, the company demonstrated how a Unified Namespace can be built in minutes – rather than through months of manual integration work.
Strong demand for simplified system integration
Conversations at the event made one thing clear: companies are actively seeking simpler and faster approaches to system integration – especially when it comes to building a Unified Namespace.
“Even with well-defined governance structures, our customers have needed months to build global Unified Namespaces. That’s too slow and too complex. And that’s exactly what is changing now,” says Daniel Goldeband (Director i-flow GmbH).
From brownfield to structured data – in minutes
At its booth, i-flow demonstrated live how existing brownfield environments can be automatically transformed into a structured Unified Namespace:
- Automatic system discovery (Auto Discovery)
- Automated semantic modeling (Auto Modeling)
- Direct publishing into the Unified Namespace (Auto Publishing)
This turns a traditional integration project into a fully automated, end-to-end process. With the launch of the OneClick UNS Private Beta, i-flow is now opening this approach to selected customers and partners for the first time.
The end of manual integration
With this approach, i-flow positions itself as a driver of a fundamental paradigm shift: “Manual integration is reaching its limits. The future lies in automated, self-building data infrastructures,” Goldeband explains. OneClick UNS enables industrial data structures to be created without extensive engineering efforts—and makes them immediately usable.
Foundation for scalable industrial data architectures
Beyond the rapid creation of a Unified Namespace, i-flow also addresses the requirements of large, global production environments. In combination with the i-flow Hub, data structures can be centrally managed, standardized, and rolled out across sites worldwide.
This creates the foundation for:
- Cross-site data availability
- Consistent data models
- Scalable applications in analytics and AI
Outlook
Following the successful trade fair appearance, i-flow plans to further develop the technology together with selected customers and partners as part of the Private Beta. Interested companies can register for access and evaluate the solution in their own use cases.
