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What to Measure on the Shop Floor: Factory KPIs Your MES Should Deliver
Learn the essential factory KPIs your Manufacturing Execution System should monitor to drive profitability and cut waste.
Structuring and Storing Data for Effective MES Integration
Learn how to organize, structure, and store your factory data effectively to make your Manufacturing Execution System (MES) work at its best with FlowFuse.
MES Data Acquisition: How to Unlock Your Factory’s Hidden Data
Learn how to effectively acquire and integrate operational data from your factory floor for MES using FlowFuse.
Announcing Node-RED Con 2025: A Community Conference on Industrial Applications
FlowFuse sponsors Node-RED Con 2025, a free online conference dedicated to industrial applications. Submit your talk today.
FlowFuse Forms: Easy Data Collection for Your Factory Floor
Learn how to create and configure forms in FlowFuse Dashboard to collect data efficiently in industrial applications using Node-RED.
Optimizing operations: Improve Industrial Operations with FlowFuse
With $7.25M in new funding, FlowFuse is enhancing its low-code platform for industry, bridging the OT/IT gap with new AI features.
FlowFuse 2.18: Smarter Monitoring, AI Integration, Improved DevOps, and a preview of exciting things to come
FlowFuse 2.18 brings smarter monitoring, AI integration, and improved DevOps: run AI chat in your Dashboard, Git pull, and more.
What Is MES (Manufacturing Execution System)? How It Works, Benefits, and Challenges
Understand Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES): what they are, why your factory needs one, and how FlowFuse simplifies adoption.
Connect Your Shop Floor to Your ERP – Odoo Edition
Learn how FlowFuse connects your factory floor data directly to Odoo, eliminating manual entry, errors, and wasted time.
Building a Flexible Node-RED Scheduler with Cron-Plus
Learn how to create flexible cron schedules in Node-RED using the cron-plus node, going beyond simple Inject for automation.
How to Embed Webpages on the FlowFuse Dashboard
Learn how to embed external web pages like maps, reports, and widgets onto your FlowFuse dashboard, step by step, with ease.
Part 1: Building an Andon Task Manager with FlowFuse
Learn how to build a real-time Andon Task Manager using FlowFuse and Node-RED, covering request tracking and dashboard design.
FlowFuse 2.17: Easier remote instance onboarding, Dashboard blueprint, PDF generation, and more
Build a dashboard in one click, create PDF reports from your data, and import instances when installing Device Agent
How to Generate PDF Reports Using Node-RED in FlowFuse (2026)
Discover how to create automated PDF reports in Node-RED with FlowFuse, from setup to generating reports with dynamic data.
How to Design and Scale an OEE Dashboard for Factory Screens
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.
FlowFuse 2.16: Git Integration, improved log retention and more
Start pushing your snapshots to git, get alerted when resources are running low and more logging from Node-RED
How to Build a Manufacturing OEE Dashboard with FlowFuse
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.
What Is an OEE Dashboard? KPIs, Metrics, and How to Plan One
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.
Managing MQTT Connections at Scale in FlowFuse
Learn how to configure MQTT brokers dynamically in FlowFuse using environment variables at instance and device group levels.