Litmus Edge is an industrial edge platform that connects to PLCs, CNC machines and sensors on the plant floor. It reads data through a large library of drivers, turns it into consistent tags, runs analytics close to the machines and passes the results on to other systems. Manufacturers use it to get data out of mixed fleets of older and newer machines. The data is collected and tidy, but a maintenance lead who wants to know why a machine keeps stopping still needs someone to build a dashboard first.
Agentic CMMS connects Litmus Edge to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI agents. The people who look after the machines ask their questions directly, and the agent reads the devices, tags and KPIs that Litmus Edge already holds.
What your AI agent can do with Litmus Edge
- List connected devices. "Which devices on the edge are disconnected right now?" The agent checks device status and lists the ones that need a look.
- Read machine tags. "What are spindle load and coolant temperature on CNC-31 at the moment?"
- Explain stops. "How many times did Press 6 stop on the night shift, and for how long each time?"
- Track OEE. "Which line had the lowest OEE yesterday, and was it availability, performance or quality?"
- Count cycles. "How many cycles has the robot cell at station 4 done since Monday?"
- Compare similar machines. "Rank the five lathes by average spindle load this week."
- Check an asset model. "Which tags belong to the Filler asset, and what does each one measure?"
Litmus Edge with your other systems
Edge data shows the symptom. Your maintenance and production systems hold the plan and the cost. One question can use all of them:
- Turn repeated stops on a machine into a work order in MaintainX, with every stop time and duration listed.
- Use cycle counts from Litmus Edge to plan usage-based service in UpKeep instead of fixed calendar dates.
- Set lost production on a line against the open production orders in Plex or Epicor Kinetic to see which customer orders are at risk.
- Compare edge data from one plant with SCADA data from Ignition by Inductive Automation at another, so group engineering sees both.
For plants with mixed machine fleets
Most factories run machines from many decades and many makers, each speaking its own protocol. Litmus Edge brings them under one data model. The agent turns that model into answers anyone on the floor can use, from the shift lead to the reliability engineer, without learning a new screen.
Each person approves their own agent with their own login. Owners and admins pick which roles may use each Litmus Edge tool, and the activity log keeps a tamper-evident record of every request.