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FlowFuse 2.29 brings FlowFuse Expert to self-hosted enterprise customers, adds Azure DevOps as a supported Git provider, and makes snapshot comparisons clearer with property-level diffs.

Most industrial systems don't fail because of bad technology. They fail because of too much of it. Here's what over-engineered infrastructure is actually costing your facility, and what a different decision looks like.

Most Modbus polling problems aren't hardware failures. They're three configuration mistakes made at commissioning and never revisited. Here's how to fix them.

OPC UA has every technical advantage. Modbus is still winning. Here's why the replacement hasn't happened and what would actually change that.

Learn how to decode binary data from any legacy serial device in Node-RED. This guide walks through frame validation, byte mapping, and bitfield parsing using a real industrial weighing scale example

How AI-driven edge connectivity is redefining industrial operations, bridging IT and OT, and turning AI pilots into scalable, real-world impact.

Most manufacturers are still debating AI adoption. These five use cases are already running in production, cutting downtime, scrap, energy costs, and injury rates.

FlowFuse Enterprise now includes Certified Nodes and AI Insights, giving manufacturing teams the security, accountability, and speed they need to scale Node-RED confidently across sites. Here's what's new and why it matters.

Learn how to monitor industrial network health using SNMP and FlowFuse. Poll OIDs, visualize device telemetry, and detect failures before they impact operations.

Industrial AI works best when edge and cloud are treated as complementary layers. This article explores how manufacturers use hierarchical architectures to combine real-time inference on the plant floor with large-scale model training in the cloud.

Learn how to connect Beckhoff TwinCAT to FlowFuse using ADS. This guide covers AMS routing, TwinCAT software PLC setup, and reading and writing PLC variables with node-red-contrib-ads-client.

FlowFuse 2.28 lets you troubleshoot flows faster with debug log context in FlowFuse Expert, manage Remote Instances centrally with Node.js options and payload configuration, and gives self-hosted users more deployment flexibility.

Your AI pilot passed every test and stalled before production. Here is why that keeps happening, and what it actually takes to stop it.

Most IIoT pipelines fail quietly. No record, no alert, no way to know what was lost. This guide shows you how to build a fault-tolerant data pipeline that catches every failure, retries intelligently, and gives you full visibility into what went wrong, when it happened, and how to fix it.

Learn how integration systems quietly become one-person knowledge traps, and what it actually takes to fix it.

Learn how manufacturers are turning Edge AI pilots into production reality, and why the plumbing matters more than the model.

Learn how to build a reliable MQTT-to-InfluxDB data pipeline using FlowFuse and Node-RED. No custom scripts, no glue code, just a visual flow that is easy to maintain and hand off.

A practical engineering guide to choosing between Modbus RTU and Modbus TCP, covering real latency numbers, failure modes that hide in plain sight, and how each protocol behaves when things go wrong.

Learn how to monitor industrial motors continuously, train a custom autoencoder on healthy vibration data, and deploy real-time anomaly detection in Node-RED.