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Learn how to build a real-time Andon Task Manager using FlowFuse and Node-RED. This step-by-step guide covers request tracking, dashboard design, and data storage with SQLite and context storage.

Build a dashboard in one click, create PDF reports from your data, and import instances when installing Device Agent

Discover how to create automated PDF reports in Node-RED with FlowFuse. This guide covers everything from setting up the required nodes to generating and serving PDF reports with dynamic data, making sharing and archiving important business insights easy.

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.

Start pushing your snapshots to git, get alerted when resources are running low and more logging from Node-RED

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.

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.

Learn how to configure MQTT brokers dynamically in FlowFuse using environment variables at both instance and device group levels. Streamline deployments across pipeline stages and monitor MQTT topics efficiently.

Start building out your own collection of private nodes and Javascript libraries for Node-RED with our new Custom Node catalogues

Learn how to monitor system health and performance with Node-RED. Track CPU usage, memory, and other key metrics, and efficiently scale device monitoring with FlowFuse to thousands of devices.

A huge wave of new features in FlowFuse elevates your MQTT experience as well as providing improved Remote Instances security and version control too

The new Node-RED Academy enables you to learn Node-RED, increase your expertise, and demonstrate your knowledge with shareable certificates.

Learn why topic structuring is crucial for your UNS’s performance and scalability. This post explores best practices and strategies to design an effective topic hierarchy for your system.

Learn how to choose the right IIoT device management software for your business with this comprehensive guide. Key features and considerations explained.

Discover how FlowFuse is the ultimate solution for managing and implementing Unified Namespace (UNS) in industrial IoT environments.

Learn how to read data from and write data to Siemens S7 PLCs (S7-1200/1500) for industrial monitoring and control. This guide covers PLC setup, the S7 protocol over ISO-on-TCP, addressing, and building dashboards, no deep PLC expertise required.

FlowFuse 2.13 brings clarity to "Instances" in FlowFuse, automated documentation for your MQTT Broker, better management and deployment to multiple Remote Instances, and more.

With our new FlowFuse release, comes a new team tier, available on FlowFuse Cloud, to provide you an easy way to manage your many Node-RED instances.

Discover why data modeling is crucial for a Unified Namespace (UNS) in manufacturing and how it helps organize and make data actionable.