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Optimizing operations: Improve Industrial Operations with FlowFuse
The announcement of our latest $7.25 million funding round isn't just a milestone for FlowFuse; it's a catalyst for our mission to revolutionize how industrial data is accessed and used.
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FlowFuse Forms: Easy Data Collection for Your Factory Floor
It's often a pain to get important data from the factory floor. Things like doing quality checks still rely on... -
What Is MES (Manufacturing Execution System)? How It Works, Benefits, and Challenges
Running a factory means constantly pushing for better production. You want to make more products, make them faster, and ensure... -
FlowFuse 2.18: Smarter Monitoring, AI Integration, Improved DevOps, and a preview of exciting things to come
This release is focused on improvements that help you manage and optimize the performance of your Node-RED instances and takes... -
Connect Your Shop Floor to Your ERP – Odoo Edition
A major problem in manufacturing today is when your ERP system isn't getting real-time information from the factory floor. This... -
Building a Flexible Node-RED Scheduler with Cron-Plus
Automation isn’t just about reacting to events—sometimes it’s about doing things at the right time. In Node-RED, the Inject node... -
How to Embed Webpages on the FlowFuse Dashboard
When you build a dashboard, sometimes you need more than just internal data. Maybe it’s a live map, a report... -
FlowFuse 2.17: Easier remote instance onboarding, Dashboard blueprint, PDF generation, and more
This release is focused on improvements that help you get up and running with FlowFuse much more quickly. Our vision... -
Part 1: Building an Andon Task Manager with FlowFuse
In modern manufacturing and service environments, speed and transparency are critical for addressing issues as they arise. An Andon system... -
How to Generate PDF Reports Using Node-RED in FlowFuse (2026)
Generating PDF reports is a common need in many workflows—whether you're logging data, sharing results, or creating summaries. With Node-RED... -
Part 3: Building an OEE Dashboard with FlowFuse
In Part 2, we built the flow to calculate OEE for the production line using simulated production and downtime data... -
FlowFuse 2.16: Git Integration, improved log retention and more
Another release from the FlowFuse team to keep realising our mission to empower you to fuse the digital realm and... -
Part 2: Building an OEE Dashboard with FlowFuse
In Part 1, we explored the fundamentals of OEE, outlined a basic design of the dashboard, and identified the key... -
Part 1: Building an OEE Dashboard with FlowFuse
OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is a KPI used in manufacturing to measure equipment performance based on availability, efficiency, and quality. To... -
Managing MQTT Connections at Scale in FlowFuse
FlowFuse makes it easy to deploy Node-RED flows at scale using DevOps pipelines and device groups. However, different stages in... -
FlowFuse 2.15: Personal Node Collections, Smart Schema Suggestions and more control in DevOps Pipelines!
Our three focal points for the latest release of FlowFuse have been: Collaborative Development: Our new Custom Node Catalogues provides a... -
Monitoring Device Health and Performance at Scale with FlowFuse
Edge devices are everywhere, and their numbers are skyrocketing—from 2.7 billion in 2020 to a projected 7.8 billion by 2030,... -
Interacting with Arduino using Node-RED
Arduino is a popular open-source platform that lets you build cool electronics projects. It’s affordable and flexible, with lots of... -
FlowFuse 2.14: Announcing Third-Party Broker Integration, UNS Schemas, Enhanced Auth on Remote Instances and more!
This release is full of highlights, which we’ll break down into two key areas - the FlowFuse MQTT Experience and...
