🏭 Machine Builders & OEMs
This page explains how machine builders and OEMs use FLECS to build software-defined machines, operate software at scale, and retain full ownership, branding, and lifecycle responsibility.
Build software-defined machines without changing your role
Machine builders and OEMs are responsible for the overall system.
You integrate components, define system behavior, ensure safety and reliability, and ultimately stand accountable for operation, updates, and lifecycle risk. This responsibility does not disappear when software becomes more important, it increases.
FLECS is designed to support this reality.
It does not turn machine builders into app vendors, IT operators, or marketplace companies. Instead, it provides the shared software layer that allows you to scale software-defined machines while keeping ownership, branding, and responsibility exactly where they belong: with you.
⚙️ Typical challenges for machine builders
As machines become more software-driven, OEMs commonly face:
Increasing numbers of software components from different vendors
High integration effort for diagnostics, connectivity, and service tools
Unclear update responsibilities between OEM, component supplier, and operator
Security and compliance requirements (e.g. CRA) across long machine lifecycles
Limited scalability of digital services beyond individual projects
All of these challenges are rational outcomes of today’s fragmented software landscape, not execution failures.
🧩 How FLECS helps – structurally
FLECS introduces a shared operational software layer for your machines.
Instead of integrating and maintaining software individually per project or customer, you can:
operate software in a standardized runtime environment
combine your own applications with selected third-party apps
manage updates, versions, and access centrally
deliver software independently from hardware shipments
This allows you to evolve from project-based software delivery to a repeatable, scalable platform approach, without losing system control.
🏷 Your machine. Your brand. Your platform.
With FLECS, OEMs can build branded software platforms for their machines.
This means:
your own device UI and web interface
your own curated app catalog
your own customer flows and responsibilities
your own software roadmap
FLECS remains the technical foundation in the background. Your customers interact with your platform, not ours.
🛍 Curated apps instead of platform sprawl
Modern machines often include software from many suppliers, each with its own tooling and update process.
FLECS allows you to:
select from 70+ standard industrial apps (connectivity, service, visualization, infrastructure)
integrate component-specific software without custom runtime work
decide which apps are available to which customers or machines
Instead of dozens of edge devices or vendor tools, your machines run on one software environment.
🔄 Software lifecycle & updates under your control
As the system owner, you remain responsible for updates and stability.
FLECS supports you with:
controlled rollout of software versions
staged updates across fleets or customer groups
rollback mechanisms in case of issues
role-based access control and auditability
Updates become an operational process, not a service project.
☁️ Cloud-native but enterprise-ready
FLECS is cloud-native, but not cloud-dependent.
As an OEM, you can:
operate fully on-premises
run hybrid setups with customer or partner infrastructure
integrate FLECS into your existing IT/OT systems
This is especially relevant for regulated industries and enterprise customers with strict security and sovereignty requirements.
🔐 Security & compliance as part of the platform
Regulations such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) make software lifecycle management mandatory.
FLECS supports this by design:
structured update and vulnerability handling
application isolation via containers
role-based access control and audit logs
transparency across the software stack
This reduces compliance overhead without introducing separate security platforms.
🚀 Typical OEM use cases
Machine builders use FLECS to:
deliver machine software separately from hardware exports
offer optional digital features and services
reduce commissioning and update effort
modernize existing machine generations
create long-term software-based customer relationships
🧭 Your next steps
Depending on where you are today, typical next steps are:
Explore Our Features – understand the platform capabilities in detail
First Steps – run FLECS on a Linux-based controller and deploy your first app
Marketplace as a Service – learn how to build your own branded app platform
Architecture & Enterprise Operation – evaluate on-prem and hybrid setups
FLECS enables machine builders to scale software without becoming something they are not.
If you build machines, FLECS helps you build the software layer that makes them future-proof.
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