i3X Connector: One Common API to the Shop Floor

The i3X Connector is now available on the OutSystems Forge, expanding the OutSystems Agentic Industry Solutions portfolio for manufacturing. It brings CESMII's i3X™ standard - the open, vendor-agnostic API for industrial data - to the OutSystems platform as ready-to-use ODC Server Actions, so manufacturers can connect apps and agents to shop-floor data without one-off, per-vendor integrations.

i3X, developed by CESMII (the Smart Manufacturing Institute), replaces brittle point-to-point integrations with one common API across multi-vendor IT and OT systems. With the connector, OutSystems apps and agents read the same contextualized production data regardless of which platform serves it - historians, asset models, or telemetry stores - with no vendor lock-in and no server details baked into your apps.

What you get:

• The i3X read surface as Server Actions. Browse namespaces, object types, and objects; read current and historical values; and subscribe to value updates through a sync poll loop - 17 of the 20 i3X v1 endpoints, with no HTTP plumbing or custom integration code.
• Point it at any i3X v1 server. The server URL and authentication travel with each call, so one app can talk to many servers, and no-auth, bearer-token, and API-key servers all work without code changes. Try it against the public i3X demo server first, then bring your own server and credentials.
• Failures are data, not crashes. Every action returns a Success flag and a normalized error you can branch on, and calls appear in ODC monitoring with distributed tracing - while server credentials are never logged or traced.

Inside the connector:

• Discovery and explore: actions for server info and capabilities, namespaces, object types, and relationship types.
• Objects and values: actions to list and query objects and their related objects, and to read current and historical values to a chosen depth.
• Subscriptions: actions to create subscriptions, register monitored items, poll for updates with sequence tracking, and clean up when done.

The i3X Connector ships as a clone-and-own integration accelerator - an External Logic (C#) library with no community dependencies, licensed under BSD-3-Clause.