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Announcing Node-RED Con 2025: A Community Conference on Industrial Applications
At FlowFuse, our commitment to the Node-RED community is at the heart of everything we do. That's why we are thrilled to announce our support as a sponsor for Node-RED Con 2025, a free, online conference taking place on Tuesday, November 4, 2025!
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Optimizing operations: Improve Industrial Operations with FlowFuse
With $7.25M in new funding, FlowFuse is enhancing its low-code platform for industry. See how upcoming AI features will help you bridge the OT/IT gap and drive innovation. -
FlowFuse Forms: Easy Data Collection for Your Factory Floor
Learn how to create and configure forms in FlowFuse Dashboard to collect data efficiently in industrial applications using Node-RED. -
MES: What It Is and Why You Need It for Your Factory
Understand Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES): what they are, why your factory needs one to boost production, common challenges, and how FlowFuse simplifies adoption. -
FlowFuse 2.18: Smarter Monitoring, AI Integration, Improved DevOps, and a preview of exciting things to come
Monitor and improve instance performance, run AI chat in your Dashboard, Git pull, and more. -
Connect Your Shop Floor to Your ERP – Odoo Edition
Learn how FlowFuse connects your factory floor data directly to Odoo, eliminating manual entry, errors, and wasted time. -
Designing Flexible Cron Schedules in FlowFuse with Node-RED
Learn how to create powerful, flexible cron schedules in Node-RED using the cron-plus node within FlowFuse. Go beyond Inject nodes for smarter, time-based automation. -
How to Embed Webpages on the FlowFuse Dashboard
Learn how to embed external web pages such as maps, reports, and widgets onto your FlowFuse dashboard. Follow this guide for easy, step-by-step instructions on improving your dashboard's functionality and collaboration. -
FlowFuse 2.17: Easier remote instance onboarding, Dashboard blueprint, PDF generation, and more
Build a dashboard in one click, create PDF reports from your data, and import instances when installing Device Agent -
Part 1: Building an Andon Task Manager with FlowFuse
Learn how to build a real-time Andon Task Manager using FlowFuse and Node-RED. This step-by-step guide covers request tracking, dashboard design, and data storage with SQLite and context storage. -
How to Generate PDF Reports Using Node-RED in FlowFuse
Discover how to create automated PDF reports in Node-RED with FlowFuse. This guide covers everything from setting up the required nodes to generating and serving PDF reports with dynamic data, making sharing and archiving important business insights easy. -
Part 3: Building an OEE Dashboard with FlowFuse
Learn how to enhance your OEE dashboard with custom theming, responsive layout, real data integration, and multi-line scalability using FlowFuse. -
FlowFuse 2.16: Git Integration, improved log retention and more
Start pushing your snapshots to git, get alerted when resources are running low and more logging from Node-RED -
Part 2: Building an OEE Dashboard with FlowFuse
Learn how to build an OEE Dashboard using FlowFuse Dashboard (Node-RED Dashboard 2.0). This step-by-step guide covers data collection, OEE calculations, and dashboard creation with simulated production and downtime data. -
Part 1: Building an OEE Dashboard with FlowFuse
Create an OEE dashboard with FlowFuse to track equipment performance, optimize efficiency, and gain real-time production insights -
Managing MQTT Connections at Scale in FlowFuse
Learn how to configure MQTT brokers dynamically in FlowFuse using environment variables at both instance and device group levels. Streamline deployments across pipeline stages and monitor MQTT topics efficiently. -
FlowFuse 2.15: Personal Node Collections, Smart Schema Suggestions and more control in DevOps Pipelines!
Start building out your own collection of private nodes and Javascript libraries for Node-RED with our new Custom Node catalogues -
Monitoring Device Health and Performance at Scale with FlowFuse
Learn how to monitor system health and performance with Node-RED. Track CPU usage, memory, and other key metrics, and efficiently scale device monitoring with FlowFuse to thousands of devices. -
Interacting with Arduino using Node-RED
Learn how to set up and control your Arduino remotely using Node-RED and FlowFuse. Explore the simplicity of automation flows