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How to Build Industrial Apps With FlowFuse AI Expert

FlowFuse Expert now builds applications from a description. Here's what that looks like, what Expert understands about your environment, and how to keep iterating.
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FlowFuse 2.29: FlowFuse Expert Comes to Self-Hosted Enterprise
FlowFuse 2.29 brings FlowFuse Expert to self-hosted enterprise customers, adds Azure DevOps as a supported Git provider, and makes snapshot comparisons clearer with property-level diffs.

Rethinking Edge AI's Core Orchestration
How AI-driven edge connectivity is redefining industrial operations, bridging IT and OT, and turning AI pilots into scalable, real-world impact.

5 Places Smart Factories Are Already Using AI
Most manufacturers are still debating AI adoption. These five use cases are already running in production, cutting downtime, scrap, energy costs, and injury rates.

The Last Mile Problem in Industrial AI
Your AI pilot passed every test and stalled before production. Here is why that keeps happening, and what it actually takes to stop it.

Edge AI Is 80% Plumbing, 20% Intelligence
Learn how manufacturers are turning Edge AI pilots into production reality, and why the plumbing matters more than the model.

Building an AI Vibration Anomaly Detector for Industrial Motors
Learn how to monitor industrial motors continuously, train a custom autoencoder on healthy vibration data, and deploy real-time anomaly detection in Node-RED.

Shop Floor AI: Dead on Arrival Without This
Industrial AI doesn't fail because of bad models - it fails because of bad architecture. Discover why signals need context and how a Unified Namespace makes AI work on the shop floor.

FlowFuse 2.26: Bringing access-controls to your MCP nodes
FlowFuse 2.26: Bringing access-controls to your MCP nodes

FlowFuse 2.24: FlowFuse Expert in the Node-RED Editor, Scheduled Updates, Simpler Edge Device Addition, Store and Forward Blueprint, and what's next!
FlowFuse 2.24: FlowFuse Expert in the Node-RED Editor, Scheduled Updates, Simpler Edge Device Addition, Store and Forward Blueprint, and what's next!

FlowFuse + LLM + MCP = Text Driven Operations
Discover how FlowFuse combines LLMs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Node-RED to enable text-driven operations, transforming industrial data into actionable insights through natural language queries.

FlowFuse 2.23: MCP and ONNX nodes, FlowFuse AI Expert on the homepage, Application-level Permission Control, FlowFuse Expert for Self-Hosted, and more!
MCP and ONNX nodes, FlowFuse AI Expert on the homepage, Application-level Permission Control, FlowFuse Expert for Self-Hosted, and more!

MCP and Custom AI Models on FlowFuse!
Create your own AI agents and deploy trained models in Node-RED

Deploy Custom-Trained AI Models: Using ONNX with Node-RED and FlowFuse
Learn how to train and export an image classifier model, and integrate it with FlowFuse AI Nodes for low-code inference in Node-RED.

Beyond Cloud AI Orchestration: Why the Future is Hybrid Edge-Cloud Intelligence
How edge-cloud hybrid AI architectures unlock new possibilities for industrial applications while leveraging the best of both worlds.

OpenAI's AgentKit or FlowFuse: Choosing the Right Low-Code App for Your Needs
Learn how OpenAI's AgentKit and FlowFuse differ in their approach to AI agents, and discover which platform is right for building applications that connect the physical and digital worlds.

Query Your Database with Natural Language Using FlowFuse Expert
Learn the easiest way to connect to your database and get data, no coding knowledge required.

FlowFuse 2.21: AI-Assisted SQL, Low-Code Custom Nodes, and Remote Instance Performance Insights
Introducing FlowFuse Expert 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

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.