Austin, TX – Flow Software, a company specializing in transforming manufacturing data into actionable KPIs and insights, has partnered with Industrial Insight (https://www.industrialinsightinc.com/) to jointly deliver analytics solutions that will increase plant optimization and sustainability.
“Manufacturing plants have been limited to only realizing a fraction of the available insights generated by their machinery and processes,” states Jeff Knepper, Managing Partner at Flow Software. “Using Flow, they can capitalize on the full extent of what they can learn from their data. We provide an all-encompassing framework that links the entirety of their operational data sources. When Flow’s analytics and calculation engines, paired with expertise from our Partners like Industrial Insight, are deployed, they transform those conventionally detached data elements into actionable KPIs and event-driven analytics. This enables a true understanding of the ongoing activities – instantaneously on the shop floor and longitudinally, impacting both the production floor and the executive suite.”
As manufacturers continue to find a path towards digital transformation, they are learning that their underlying data infrastructure is a limiting factor that needs addressed. Deploying Flow Software as the Unified Analytics Framework for an operation ensures that actionable information can easily move between systems and people within the plant as well as into enterprise data environments.
Jim Gavigan, President of Industrial Insight states, “our team is excellent at crafting solutions out of just an idea or a problem statement, which makes our firm very unique in the marketplace since most, if not all, of our competitors want a clear scope of work which is not always possible to attain. We are your one stop shop for all things industrial data, and we are extremely excited about the possibilities that Flow Software brings to us, to our customers, and to the market at large.”
“It’s a great match, because the men and women at Industrial Insight are true data storytellers, and that has always been my vision for how Flow serves manufacturers” added Graeme Welton, Founder and CEO of Flow Software. “The most successful Flow Partners have this is common, they want to make it easy for their customers to turn data into contextually rich information. Industrial Insight is that ‘easy button’”.
About Flow Software
Flow Software creates analytics software specifically for manufacturing and operations. Their solutions connect to operational databases and real time data servers and make it easy to build the KPIs necessary to optimize a manufacturing plant. Teams use Flow to improve production efficiency, increase quality, trigger maintenance tickets, and monitor utilities and raw material consumption. Flow can track downtime, monitor adherence to production plans, and forecast future values to help operations see what’s on the horizon. Once Flow is connected to a data source, or creates a new KPI, they serve as a hub and share that data with other applications and people across the entire enterprise.
About Industrial Insight
Industrial Insight, a group of time-series data experts focused on data-driven process optimization, specializes in helping their customers find solutions to their data problems. Industrial Insight serve as both consultants and integrators with a focus on helping process engineers optimize and improve their processes by properly using industrial data. They are experienced with a variety of data historian, visualization, business intelligence, and advanced analytics platforms and will help educate their customers on both selecting and learning to use the right tools for the right job.
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