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Stop waiting years for manufacturing software projects to deliver value. See how FlowFuse enables composable industrial applications built around your operation.

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.

Most factories measure OEE wrong. Manual logs miss small stops, definitions drift, and operators game the score. A practical look at what to do about it.

FlowFuse 2.30 lets FlowFuse Expert build industrial applications from a description: OEE dashboards, MES handover screens, UNS topic mappings, and more.

Discover why IIoT data integration fails at scale and how the Unified Namespace, OPC-UA, and MQTT create a common industrial data language that compounds value with every system you add.

Modbus doesn't fail loudly. It drifts. This guide covers how to diagnose serial vs. TCP failures, eliminate dead device overhead, and build the metrics layer that tells you something is wrong before your operators do.

Cloud, edge, or hybrid? Learn how to choose the right FlowFuse deployment model for your industrial workflows - before an outage exposes the wrong architecture.

Learn how to implement a deadband filter in FlowFuse to suppress noisy sensor data from PLCs, temperature probes, and flow meters. Step-by-step guide using the built-in filter node on FlowFuse.

Most edge deployments do not fail because of technology. They fail because IT and OT never agreed on ownership. This article breaks down where that tension comes from, what it costs, and how to fix it.

Learn how to connect FlowFuse to AWS IoT Core using MQTT and X.509 certificates. This step-by-step guide covers creating an IoT Thing, generating certificates, configuring policies, and publishing your first message from FlowFuse.

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.

Most industrial systems don't fail because of bad technology. They fail because of too much of it. Here's what over-engineered infrastructure is actually costing your facility, and what a different decision looks like.

Most Modbus polling problems aren't hardware failures. They're three configuration mistakes made at commissioning and never revisited. Here's how to fix them.

OPC UA has every technical advantage. Modbus is still winning. Here's why the replacement hasn't happened and what would actually change that.

Learn how to decode binary data from any legacy serial device in Node-RED. This guide walks through frame validation, byte mapping, and bitfield parsing using a real industrial weighing scale example

How AI-driven edge connectivity is redefining industrial operations, bridging IT and OT, and turning AI pilots into scalable, real-world impact.

Most manufacturers are still debating AI adoption. These five use cases are already running in production, cutting downtime, scrap, energy costs, and injury rates.

Learn how to monitor industrial network health using SNMP and FlowFuse. Poll OIDs, visualize device telemetry, and detect failures before they impact operations.

Industrial AI works best when edge and cloud are treated as complementary layers. This article explores how manufacturers use hierarchical architectures to combine real-time inference on the plant floor with large-scale model training in the cloud.