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title: "Templates"
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updated: 2025-12-22T15:27:59Z
published: 2025-12-22T15:27:59Z
canonical: "docs.sightmachine.com/templates"
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# Templates

**Overview**

**Pipeline Templates** are a management and scalability feature within the Pipeline Builder designed to organize complex streaming data transformations. While individual operators provide fine-grained control, large-scale pipelines can become difficult to navigate and maintain. Templates solve this by grouping multiple underlying operators into a single, reusable object. This modular approach allows users to centralize configurations and maintain a clean, readable canvas while leveraging either **pre-built templates** provided by Sight Machine or **custom templates** created for specific operational needs.

**Feature Benefits**

- **Logic Reusability:** Create a complex transformation logic once and deploy it across multiple sections of a pipeline or in different workspaces, ensuring consistency across data models.
- **Centralized Configuration:** Update parameters for multiple underlying operators from a single template interface, significantly reducing the time required for bulk adjustments.
- **Enhanced Canvas Navigation:** Simplifies the visual workspace by representing a sequence of operators as a single "block," making high-level pipeline structures easier to read and troubleshoot.
- **Scalability at Ease:** Enables the management of hundreds of data streams by utilizing templates to standardize common tasks like data cleaning, unit conversion, or shift scheduling.
- **Pre-built & Custom Flexibility:** Provides immediate value through Sight Machine’s library of **pre-built templates** while offering the flexibility to build unique, proprietary logic for specialized equipment.

**Summary**

**Pipeline Templates** transform the Pipeline Builder from a collection of individual tools into a scalable, enterprise-grade development environment. By abstracting the complexity of multiple operators into single, manageable objects, templates make pipelines significantly easier to navigate, maintain, and audit.

Whether you are implementing standardized **pre-built templates** to accelerate your time-to-value or developing **custom templates** to protect proprietary calculations, this feature ensures your data foundation remains organized and efficient as your digital transformation grows.

#### **With Sight Machine you can use** [**pre-built templates**](/v1/docs/pre-built-templates) **or** [**create your own**](/v1/docs/build-your-own-template)**!**

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