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Learn how to organize, structure, and store your factory data effectively to make your Manufacturing Execution System (MES) work at its best with FlowFuse.

Learn how to effectively acquire and integrate operational data from your factory floor for MES using FlowFuse.

FlowFuse is proud to sponsor Node-RED Con 2025, a free online conference on November 4, 2025, dedicated to industrial applications. Learn more and submit your talk.

Learn how to create and configure forms in FlowFuse Dashboard to collect data efficiently in industrial applications using Node-RED.

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.

Monitor and improve instance performance, run AI chat in your Dashboard, Git pull, and more.

Understand Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES): what they are, why your factory needs one to boost production, common challenges, and how FlowFuse simplifies adoption.

Learn how FlowFuse connects your factory floor data directly to Odoo, eliminating manual entry, errors, and wasted time.

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.

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.

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.

Build a dashboard in one click, create PDF reports from your data, and import instances when installing Device Agent

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.

Turn a working OEE dashboard into a factory-floor display with FlowFuse - dark theming for control rooms, responsive breakpoints, branded headers, multi-line scaling with subflows, and swapping simulated data for your real database.

Start pushing your snapshots to git, get alerted when resources are running low and more logging from Node-RED

Build a manufacturing OEE dashboard step by step with FlowFuse. Covers collecting production and downtime data, calculating availability, performance, and quality, breaking OEE down by machine, and laying out the dashboard widgets.

An OEE dashboard tracks availability, performance, and quality in one view. Learn how OEE is calculated, how to choose machine, line, or factory scope, and which KPIs and visualizations to plan for.

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.

Start building out your own collection of private nodes and Javascript libraries for Node-RED with our new Custom Node catalogues