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title: Overview
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Manufacturing Connect is a centralized management platform for edge devices, data, and applications at the edge. As a single point of control for all Manufacturing Connect Edge instances (edge devices), Manufacturing Connect handles large-scale deployments across multiple facilities. Manufacturing Connect gives you control over edge devices, from bootstrap to replacement, with secure mass deployment, over-the-air updates, and automated actions.

Manufacturing Connect offers an option to act as a central data repository. It is used to set up and manage all aspects of a Manufacturing Connect Edge environment.

You can access Manufacturing Connect from a software-defined private network anywhere, using:

- Web User Interface
- REST APIs: to manipulate data programmatically

For more information on how Manufacturing Connect can manage Manufacturing Connect Edge devices, start with [Manufacturing Connect User UI](docId\:Smw1mexhytUxTGgNGO2tC).

For more information on how to configure and manage the Manufacturing Connect itself, start with [Manufacturing Connect Admin Console](docId\:bcYchBjPeUcep2Zd4FLfY).

# Functionality

Manufacturing Connect User UI and Manufacturing Connect Admin Console:

- Connects to any number of edge devices to provide extensive management capabilities
- Offers edge device templates for fast and consistent deployment
- Manages Docker-containerized applications for edge devices
- Deploys applications across multiple edge devices
- Integrates edge devices with cloud or enterprise systems, including Big Data
- Stores data in all types of databases and cloud storage systems
- Manages dashboards to generate KPI reports and visualize real-time data across all edge devices
- Integrates data from multiple edge devices into Big Data lakes or enterprise systems

# Frequently Asked Questions

[Manufacturing Connect FAQs](docId\:NRXWF2CDP0GEKG7o8MMVm)