11. November 2025
Many industrial companies still struggle with heterogeneous system landscapes, manually maintained data silos, and a lack of continuity between OT and IT. This causes valuable efficiency potential to be lost—whether in maintenance, process optimization, or knowledge management. While modern software platforms are meant to help connect machines and data more flexibly, a crucial factor is often missing: the intelligent use of accumulated experiential knowledge in day-to-day production.
This is exactly where FLECS and MADDOX come into play—two technologies that complement each other perfectly. FLECS Technologies provides the technological foundation to deploy industrial software solutions in a modular, secure, and hardware-independent way. Following the principle: apps instead of project overhead. MADDOX by Peerox extends this digital foundation with AI-powered knowledge management that makes experiential knowledge from disruption cases accessible, thereby reducing downtime.
Together, FLECS and MADDOX demonstrate how digital flexibility and human experience can be combined into a powerful system: efficient, adaptive, and future-proof.
FLECS pursues a radically modular approach: Based on a Linux-based, open operating system, FLECS Core forms the runtime environment for apps—from local visualization to AI-based services. Through the integrated service mesh, apps exchange data with each other in a standardized and secure way. This decouples the traditional automation architecture and opens it up for modern software solutions.
A key differentiator: FLECS not only enables easy installation of standard apps but also provides a complete development and release infrastructure for custom industrial applications. Using pre-built app templates (including Docker, manifest, and CI/CD configurations), companies can develop their own solutions in no time—whether for connecting specific PLCs, proprietary machine modules, or customer-specific interfaces.
The fully automated release process via GitHub, including versioning and audience targeting, ensures that new features and updates reach operators quickly and securely. At the push of a button, via the FLECS Marketplace or a customized white-label portal. This makes FLECS the ideal platform for rolling out tailored software solutions ready for operation—without the complexity of traditional development and distribution processes.
Through the WebApp, users always maintain control over installed applications, access rights, and updates—locally or remotely, with just a few clicks.
The major advantage: Over 70 ready-to-use apps are already available on the FLECS Marketplace today, ready to be installed directly on machines. From data loggers to OPC UA gateways to AI modules. The more apps deployed on a machine, the more a connected, intelligent data space emerges. And this is exactly what systems like MADDOX need.
MADDOX by Peerox is an AI-based software solution that increases production efficiency in the manufacturing industry through innovative knowledge management, reducing downtime by over 15%. When a disruption occurs, operators search for the cause—but even with the best database available, the problem often remains unsolved. The reason: To use knowledge from a traditional database, you need to know and correctly apply the right keywords. But often that’s exactly what’s missing—the correct term for the component or the type of disruption.
This is precisely where MADDOX comes in. Instead of laboriously searching for keywords, MADDOX compares the current data patterns of the disruption with historical data patterns and knowledge entries that the machine learning algorithm was trained on. The system then directly suggests the appropriate knowledge card containing a concrete solution for the current disruption. This reduces machine downtime without losing valuable time to unsuccessful search processes.
From the pharmaceutical industry to beverage production to building materials: MADDOX proves its success across numerous industries—wherever complex equipment and experienced employees work together.
The combination of FLECS and MADDOX is a prime example of modern OT/IT integration.
FLECS makes it possible to provide all data points relevant to MADDOX—from sensors to PLCs—in a service mesh, aggregated through apps that can be individually developed or sourced as standard solutions. This data is then made available locally or server-based, allowing MADDOX to apply its AI models with precise context.
MADDOX itself will soon be available as an app on the FLECS Marketplace—including automatic updates, versioning, and compliance checks. In addition, plant operators benefit from all the features of the FLECS ecosystem:
Through this close integration of FLECS and MADDOX, a scalable, future-proof system emerges that strengthens both people and processes. Intelligent, flexible, and secure.
The combination of an open app platform and adaptive AI demonstrates how digitalization in production not only creates efficiency but also makes knowledge sustainably usable.
This is how modern software becomes real value creation: less downtime, more transparency, and a continuously learning production environment.
FLECS and MADDOX show how the factory of the future can already work today. Open, connected, and human-centered.
Excited about the connection between flexible software architecture and AI-based knowledge management? Then get in touch with us. Together, we’ll show you how to unlock new efficiency potential in your production too.
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