Connect new and aging machines to a single platform
FlowFuse helps machinery, tooling, and precision component manufacturers monitor, automate, and standardize production across sites in real time.
“Without FlowFuse, I would be able to support maybe one production unit, but that's it. FlowFuse gives us the chance to deliver what the business asks us for while maintaining our small team size. It's not just about connecting machines, it's about creating the foundation that makes everything else possible.”
Felix Reck, IT Application Manager, Walter Tools (formerly)
Over 36,000 users have trusted FlowFuse
How Walter Tools scaled machine connectivity
Walter Tools uses FlowFuse to standardize machine connectivity across its production network. Its seven-person IT team manages more than 130 Node-RED instances across multiple locations, connecting machine data with manufacturing and business systems.
130+
Node-RED instances managed at Walter Tools
7
People on Walter Tools' IT team
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Fragmented systems unified at Walter Tools
Put a cost on disconnected machine data
Machining centers, grinders, robots, SCADA, MES, and ERP already hold the data your teams need — they just don't talk to each other. When a machine stops, someone finds out only after checking a screen or calling another site, and every one of those handoffs costs engineering hours and idle spindle time. See what it's costing you below:
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Applications for industrial machinery manufacturing
Operate CNC machines, presses, or conveyors in your own facilities? Build machinery for customers? See how FlowFuse supports machinery, tooling, and precision component manufacturers with connectivity, CNC machine monitoring, maintenance, and error-proofing — for equipment you run and equipment you sell.
Connect Legacy Machines to Current Systems
No rip and replace. Connect CNC machining centers, grinders, EDM, presses, robots, PLCs, SCADA, historians, MES, and ERP using open industrial protocols — MTConnect, OPC UA, FOCAS, Modbus, EtherNet/IP, and Siemens S7. Normalize the tags so a mixed fleet reports the same numbers the same way and reuse one connectivity pattern at every plant instead of rebuilding per site.
Explore manufacturing data integration
Bring Your Own AI to the Shop Floor
Use FlowFuse Expert, or connect the AI tool your company already approved — ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, or another MCP-compatible client — directly to that same data, since FlowFuse can act as an MCP server. No policy exception needed to stand up an AI pilot on machine data.
Read how to connect an industrial AI agent to FlowFuse
Act on Stops and Maintenance Signals Before They Cost You
Spindle load, vibration, temperature, and cycle counts already predict wear. Combine operating hours, condition signals, and maintenance rules to flag equipment that needs attention, and trigger alerts on what the machine is doing rather than a fixed interval. Record downtime duration and operator-entered reasons so teams can investigate recurring losses.
Build a machine downtime tracking application
Error-Proof Work Through Frequent Changeovers
Build poka-yoke workflows that check the scanned part, active job, and required process steps against approved instructions. Show operators what to do next, flag mismatches, and route exceptions before an incorrect setup or missed check moves downstream.
Connect process requirements to measurement dataBuilt for Enterprise Manufacturing
FlowFuse is SOC 2 Type I and Type II certified, with role-based access control, single sign-on, audit logging, and air-gapped, self-hosted deployment options, built for the security and compliance requirements of large-scale manufacturing organizations.
Review our security and compliance detailsSOC 2 Type II
Single Sign-On
Audit Logs
Role-Based Access Control
Air-Gapped / Self-Hosted Deployment
Industrial Machinery Compliance & Standards
The Data Your Audit Asks For, In One Place
Supplying regulated customers means your own process gets audited too. FlowFuse helps you keep the data an auditor asks for queryable in one place. These are workflows FlowFuse supports, not a guarantee of regulatory compliance — certification and audit outcomes depend on your own program.
ISO 9001
Asks you to find the cause of a nonconformity and prove the fix held. FlowFuse links corrective actions to the production data that triggered them, so the evidence is already there.
Learn more about how FlowFuse supports CAPA workflowsRun at Rate
Customers qualifying your tooling want a demonstrated rate, not a claimed one. FlowFuse records the run as it happens and reports the rate from machine data.
Learn more about running a Run at Rate studyIEC 62443 & NIS2
Connecting machines widens the attack surface unless the connection layer is governed. FlowFuse adds role-based access, audit logging, and controlled deployment to OT integrations.
Learn more about NIS2 and IEC 62443 for manufacturersGauge calibration
An out-of-calibration gauge invalidates every reading it took. FlowFuse tracks calibration status and due dates next to the measurements themselves.
Learn more about building a calibration management dashboardUse cases in Industrial Machinery
Operational workflow patterns teams in this industry build and own with FlowFuse.
Frequently Asked Questions
Bring your production challenge
Every machinery and tooling manufacturer runs a different mix of machines, jobs, and customers. FlowFuse lets you build the applications your teams need using the systems already running your plant.
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