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The $2 Million Equipment Failure: Why Preventive Maintenance is Manufacturing's New Competitive Weapon
At 2:47 AM on a Tuesday, a $15 bearing brought down a $2 million production line.
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Building Your First Pareto Chart in FlowFuse for Production Data
Learn how to build a Pareto Chart in FlowFuse to identify the vital few defects in your production data. Step-by-step guide with live data integration, visualization, and actionable insights. -
FlowFuse API for Industry: Automating Node-RED Instances, Devices, and CI/CD Tasks
Use the FlowFuse API to simplify industrial automation, reduce manual tasks, and streamline deployments. -
What is a Pareto Chart? A Simple Guide for Manufacturing Teams
Learn how Pareto Charts empower manufacturing teams to focus on the issues that matter most. Learn the Pareto principle, see real-world examples, and understand key applications in quality control, maintenance, supply chain, and safety management. -
FlowFuse 2.21: AI-Assisted SQL, Low-Code Custom Nodes, and Remote Instance Performance Insights
Introducing FlowFuse Assistant functionality in Tables to do natural language queries of your databases, Remote Instance observability to improve performance monitoring, Team Broker nodes to make MQTT even easier to work with, a new Energy Monitoring Blueprint, Annual Billing for Self-Service, AI-Generated Snapshot Summaries, and new subflow version control to provide low-code development of custom nodes -
Orchestrating Virtual Power Plants: How Low-Code Platforms Bridge the Gap
learn how low-code platforms like FlowFuse and Node-RED simplify the integration and management of distributed energy resources, making Virtual Power Plants a scalable reality. -
Save with FlowFuse Annual Billing – Now Available!
FlowFuse now offers annual billing for Starter and Pro plans with one month free. Lock in current pricing, simplify administration, and support long-term planning. -
Building Historical Data Dashboard with FlowFuse Tables
Learn how to Build a powerful historical data dashboard for your Industrial IoT applications using FlowFuse Tables. -
Winning Through Open-Source Software in Manufacturing Digitalization
Explore how open-source software can help manufacturers overcome vendor lock-in, accelerate digital transformation, and regain competitive advantage in Industry 4.0 -
OPC UA Tutorial: Advanced Monitoring with Subscriptions, Alarms, and Historical Data
Learn advanced OPC UA techniques in Node-RED: real-time subscriptions, alarm handling, historical data queries, and method calls for production-ready industrial systems. -
FlowFuse's New Database: The Easiest Way to Store Industrial IoT Data
FlowFuse now includes a built-in PostgreSQL database, making it easier to manage Industrial IoT data directly within your Node-RED projects. Learn how to enable the feature, create tables, run SQL queries, and use dynamic parameters with the Query node. -
The Evolution of Business Automation: Why Pricing Models Matter
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FlowFuse 2.20: AI-Assisted Node-RED & New Database Service
Introducing FlowFuse Tables for data storage, Tables nodes for dashboard visualization, Smart Suggestions in the Node-RED editor, More Powerful Starter tier, Retrieval Augmented Generation Blueprint for intelligent applications, and a redesigned Applications page for better workspace management. -
FlowFuse AI Assistant: Let Your Engineers Build Automation, Not Write Code
FlowFuse AI Assistant helps manufacturing teams write Node-RED function nodes, parse machine data, and create custom dashboards. Learn how it works with real examples. -
How Leading Manufacturers Save Thousands of Dollars/Year with Real-Time SPC
Learn how to build real-time SPC charts using Node-RED and FlowFuse for manufacturing quality control. -
OPC UA Tutorial: Connect and Exchange Data with Industrial Equipment
OPC UA tutorial: Connect Node-RED to industrial PLCs step-by-step. Configure Kepware endpoints, read/write Siemens S7 tags, browse Allen-Bradley data. Free guide. -
Connecting Manufacturing Equipment via Serial Port
Learn how to connect manufacturing equipment using serial interfaces like RS-232/422/485 in Node-RED with FlowFuse. Enable monitoring, data collection, and automation—no hardware changes required -
How we Built a Smart Manufacturing Order Execution Panel with FlowFuse
This blog shows how I built a panel using FlowFuse to connect with Odoo ERP. It starts production, checks for raw materials, updates order status, and stops when the target is reached. -
FlowFuse 2.19: More Powerful AI in Node-RED, Drop-In Blueprints, Memory Monitoring, and Faster Onboarding
AI enhancements to Node-RED, streamlined onboarding with social authentication, improved Blueprint experience, more comprehensive performance monitoring, and a refreshed user interface.