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What is 5S Checklist: Definition, Benefits, Implementation, and Template

Manufacturing environments face increasing pressure to eliminate waste, improve safety, and maintain quality standards. Disorganized workspaces contribute to production delays, safety incidents, and quality defects that directly impact operational performance. The 5S methodology addresses these challenges through systematic work area organization, but implementation requires consistent evaluation and measurement. A 5S checklist provides the structured framework necessary to assess, maintain, and improve work area organization standards across manufacturing operations.
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Visual Layout Editor - Now Available in Dashboard
It has been one of the most requested features for FlowFuse Dashboard, and is now available in its first iteration. It is now possible to resize and move groups in the Dashboard itself using the new "Edit Layout" feature. That's not all though, we've added a new "Spacer" widget to assist with layouts, added improvements to the rendering of charts and plenty more.
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Dialogs, Customizable Icons and Histograms Now Available in FlowFuse Dashboard
This update introduces new ways to enhance data visualization and customization in your dashboards. With key improvements, including a new chart type, customizable app icon support and a dialog feature for groups, this release helps tailor dashboards for better user interaction and flexibility.
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New Layout, Widget and Gauges Now Available in FlowFuse Dashboard
At FlowFuse, we're constantly evolving to make sure your dashboard experience is seamless and efficient. This month, we're excited to introduce several new features that enhance your interaction with the platform. From organizing your data with Tabs to visualizing critical information with new Gauges, we've got you covered.
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Customise theming in your FlowFuse Dashboard
A recent release of FlowFuse Dashboard (Dashboard 2.0) has taken customization to the next level.
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FlowFuse Dashboard vs UI-Builder: A Comprehensive Comparison
When choosing a dashboard solution for Node-RED, two popular options are FlowFuse Dashboard (also known as Dashboard 2.0) and UI-Builder. This article compares these tools across several key areas, including installation, ease of use, development activity, and customizability, to help you decide which one best suits your needs.
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New Charts Available in FlowFuse Dashboard
It's been a while coming, but we've finally introduced a new set of chart types to FlowFuse Dashboard. We've added Pie, Donut and Grouped (Stacks and Side-by-Side) Bar charts to the UI Chart node. We've also shipped plenty of other improvements and fixes in this release, so let's dive in.
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Node-RED Dashboard Formally Deprecated
Dave Conway-Jones, the lead maintainer of Node-RED Dashboard, has just announced that Node-RED Dashboard has been formally deprecated, meaning there will be no further development activity on the project.
FlowFuse Dashboard (also known as Node-RED Dashboard 2.0) is a natural successor to Node-RED Dashboard, and in this article, we detail what FlowFuse Dashboard offers, and how you can get started.
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Multi-Tenancy available for everyone with FlowFuse's Dashboard 2.0
FlowFuse Dashboard has featured multi-tenancy features through the FlowFuse User Addon. This made user based applications available only to specific FlowFuse team tiers and customers. However, the Node-RED community wanted to use the same feature set in cases FlowFuse didn't consider initially. Taking this feedback on board, today we announce some significant changes to how you can build Dashboards with multi-tenancy in mind.
Having taken that feedback on board, we've made some significant changes to how you can build Dashboards with multi-tenancy in mind.
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Exploring Node-RED Dashboard 2.0 Widgets
This guide delves into Node-RED Dashboard 2.0 widgets. It is a guide on how to build a Dashboard application, and will cover many of the widgets available today.
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Mapping location data within Node-RED Dashboard 2.0.
Fleet management in IoT uses sensors and software to collect real-time data on vehicles, such as location, fuel consumption, and driver behavior. This data allows companies to optimize routes, reduce costs, improve safety, and enhance overall operational efficiency of their fleet. Building an application that allows the tracking of location to support Fleet management is what this post is about.
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Comprehensive guide: Node-RED Dashboard 2.0 layout, sidebar, and styling
In this comprehensive guide, we will explore different layouts and sidebar styles in Dashboard 2.0. Additionally, we will cover how you can style Dashboard 2.0 elements effortlessly.
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Dashboard 2.0: Milestones, PWA and New Components
With a new release of Node-RED Dashboard 2.0 we have plenty of new fixes and improvements being added to the project. In this post, we'll deep dive into community contributions, PWA support, new Vuetify components, and the rest of the great work published in this latest release.
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How to Build An Application With Node-RED Dashboard 2.0
In this guide, we'll build a Todo application to guide you through the features and explain how you can build rich and dynamic applications too. It shows many of the features that make Dashboard 2.0 great, and why you should use it over the deprecated node-red-dashboard.
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Getting Started with Node-RED Dashboard 2.0
With our latest release of Node-RED Dashboard 2.0, we've made some big improvements to the onboarding experience.
We're seeing over 2,000 people download Dashboard 2.0 per week, and are seeing a great buzz in the community of brand new Node-RED users, experienced Node-RED users that haven't explored a UI solution previously and existing users migrating from Dashboard 1.0.
So, with that in mind, we wanted to offer a new "Getting Started" guide that will help you get up and running with building custom user interfaces and data visualizations in Node-RED.
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Speech-Driven Chatbot System with Node-RED
Have you ever wanted to integrate speech recognition and synthesis into your Node-RED project and thought it was too complex? Often it has required external services or APIs. However, in this guide, we show you how you can use speech recognition and synthesis in your Node-RED projects without needing an external service or API.
In addition, we make things more interesting by building a system that can listen to us and respond like humans using the Chat-GPT API. Let's get started!
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Personalised Multi-user Dashboards with Node-RED Dashboard 2.0!
This week has seen the release of the first major version of Node-RED Dashboard 2.0, with it, we've made available a new FlowFuse-exclusive feature, personalised multi-user dashboards.
This new feature will allow you to build applications that provide unique data to each user, build admin-only views, and track user activity, to name but a few. We're really excited to see what the Node-RED Community and our FlowFuse customers can do with such a powerful and flexible framework.
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Node-RED Dashboard 2.0 is Generally Available!
Back in June 2023 we announced that FlowFuse would be investing into building out the next generation of Node-RED Dashboard, the most popular UI framework for Node-RED. We followed this up with the first release (
0.0.1) in July, just one month later, and today, we are pleased to announce that we have reached a major milestone in this journey, with the release of our first major version (1.0.0) of Node-RED Dashboard 2.0. -

Sentiment Analysis with Node-RED
Have you ever built a sentiment analysis system to extract insights from text content? If yes then I don’t think you'll need an explanation of how complex it is to build. In this guide, we will build a sentiment analysis system with Node-RED using Dashboard 2.0 in a few easy steps.