Flow Resources, Videos, and Customer Stories

Browse from a long library of resources allowing you to dive deeper into Flow as a solution and see how others have chosen to be successful with the tools.

Videos

Expand your knowledge with our videos and webinar recordings.

Step-By-Step Tutorials

Whether you're a new user or looking to refine your skills, these tutorials provide clear, concise guidance to help you master every feature. Learn at your own pace and elevate your operational efficiency with each video.

Industry IQ

Enhance your industry knowledge with our Industry IQ series. These videos delve into crucial topics such as key performance indicators, scalable architectures, and common industry challenges. Designed for professionals seeking to advance their understanding, each episode equips you with strategic insights to drive decision-making and operational success.

Partner Sessions & Events

Explore our collection of Flow Partner Sessions, webinars, and broadcasted events, featuring insights from tradeshows and collaborative webinars with our trusted partners. These recordings bring you the frontline perspectives on innovations, challenges, and solutions shaping the future of industry. Gain valuable knowledge that spans across a myriad of topics and real-world applications.

Articles

Expand your knowledge with our guides and whitepapers.

The Advantages of Flow Over AVEVA PI Asset Framework
The Advantages of Flow Over AVEVA PI Asset Framework

Flow Software replaces the functionality of AVEVA PI Asset Framework while reducing costs, unlocking historian flexibility, and empowering OT teams to build analytics without specialized expertise—enabling businesses to focus on solving real problems, not managing infrastructure.

October 22, 2024
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Effective Information Management Requires Scalability
Effective Information Management Requires Scalability

Scalable information management in manufacturing requires a foundational approach to integration, robust data governance, and adoption of flexible, platform-agnostic architectures - these key points will ensure your strategy is successful.

May 7, 2024
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Flow Software Announces Partnership with Gallarus Industry Solutions to Advance Industry 4.0
Flow Software Announces Partnership with Gallarus Industry Solutions to Advance Industry 4.0

Flow is excited to announce a new partnership with Gallarus Industry Solutions, a premier provider of Industry 4.0 solutions. This partnership aims to leverage Gallarus’s expertise in digital transformation and the Unified Namespace ecosystem and enhance Industry 4.0 adoption globally.

March 6, 2024
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RFK Racing Team Select Flow Software
RFK Racing Team Select Flow Software

Flow has officially been selected by the RFK Racing Team to power their analytics for NASCAR legend Brad Keselowski in the #6 car as well as their #17 car, driven by Chris Buescher, for the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season.

February 2, 2024
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Flow Partners with Streamline Control to Advance Industrial Analytics
Flow Partners with Streamline Control to Advance Industrial Analytics

Flow Software partners with Streamline Control to enhance industrial analytics and operational efficiency through advanced technology integration.

January 29, 2024
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Better Operational Decisions Await with Dell Edge Certified Flow Software
Better Operational Decisions Await with Dell Edge Certified Flow Software

Flow Software has become an official Dell Edge Certified Partner ensuring that Flow's solution is fully compatible and optimized to run on Dell infrastructure.

January 8, 2024
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Ectobox and Flow Adding Analytics to the UNS Together
Ectobox and Flow Adding Analytics to the UNS Together

Flow Software is excited to partner with Ectobox to revolutionize Industry 4.0 readiness for manufacturers, leveraging their combined strengths in Unified Namespace and Unified Analytics Framework to create a Manufacturing Data Hub

December 6, 2023
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Flow Software Partners with Parasyn to Help Industry with Data Management
Flow Software Partners with Parasyn to Help Industry with Data Management

Flow has partnered with Australian-based Parasyn, to jointly deliver analytics solutions that will democratize OT systems and increase asset performance.

December 5, 2023
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Getting Started With KPIs For Manufacturing
Getting Started With KPIs For Manufacturing

With so many possibilities available, sometimes it can be difficult to identify where you can start using Flow. Here are some suggested Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that provide clear insights and can drive real value.

November 14, 2023
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4IR Adds Flow to Managed Services Portfolio
4IR Adds Flow to Managed Services Portfolio

This collaboration aims to bolster 4IR’s platform-as-a-service offerings of FactoryStack and PharmaStack by integrating Flow’s analytics engine and data modeling software as well as provide immediate managed services of Flow for Cloud deployments.

October 15, 2023
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Skellig and Flow Offering Life Sciences New Possibilities
Skellig and Flow Offering Life Sciences New Possibilities

At the forefront of advancing analytics and data readiness in the life sciences sector, Skellig Automation and Flow Software have aligned in a strategic partnership. This collaboration sets a fresh benchmark for actionable KPIs and insights in the industry.

October 9, 2023
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Flow Software Engages With CESMII To Help Democratize the Adoption of Smart Manufacturing
Flow Software Engages With CESMII To Help Democratize the Adoption of Smart Manufacturing

Flow Software, a company that transforms the data accumulated within organizations into valuable, usable knowledge and intelligence, has joined as the newest member of CESMII, the Smart Manufacturing Institute.

September 11, 2023
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Flow Software Partners With Industrial Insight To Help Manufacturers Scale Analytics
Flow Software Partners With Industrial Insight To Help Manufacturers Scale Analytics

Flow Software, a company specializing in transforming manufacturing data into actionable KPIs and insights, has partnered with Industrial Insight to jointly deliver analytics solutions that will increase plant optimization and sustainability.

September 11, 2023
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Ace Short Interval Control (SIC) in Manufacturing With Flow Software
Ace Short Interval Control (SIC) in Manufacturing With Flow Software

Enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency through Short Interval Control is pivotal for modern manufacturing, and Flow Software emerges as the linchpin, seamlessly integrating data sources and standardizing KPIs across hierarchies to realize this potential.

December 6, 2023
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Building a Unified Analytics Framework to Unlock Analytics at Enterprise Scale
Building a Unified Analytics Framework to Unlock Analytics at Enterprise Scale

Most medium to large scale manufacturers are in crisis--you may be among them--they cannot scale their analytics efforts to embrace today’s technologies, let alone tomorrow’s. To compete in the new manufacturing landscape, you must unleash the full potential of your data.

September 18, 2023
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Harnessing the Power of KPIs to Boost Manufacturing Facility Performance
Harnessing the Power of KPIs to Boost Manufacturing Facility Performance

Explore how the strategic use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in manufacturing can revolutionize your operational efficiency, streamline workflows, and harmonize the relationship between your workforce and machinery, leading to unprecedented improvements in your business.

July 6, 2023
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Nor-Cal Controls Deliver Trustworthy Information to Solar and Energy Storage
Nor-Cal Controls Deliver Trustworthy Information to Solar and Energy Storage

With a deep understanding of data analytics and data readiness, Flow Software and Nor-Cal's EMS offering can help renewable energy customers unlock the full potential of their data. By providing a unified view of their data and enabling advanced analytics, customers can optimize energy production, reduce costs, and improve overall performance.

April 11, 2023
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Leveraging Unified Analytics Frameworks in Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Leveraging Unified Analytics Frameworks in Food and Beverage Manufacturing

The use of big data analytics has enabled the food and beverage industry to gain insights into their manufacturing processes that can help them identify inefficiencies and areas for improvement, reduce downtime, and improve product quality. One powerful tool that can help in this endeavor is the Unified Analytics Framework (UAF).

March 17, 2023
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Addressing Three Blind Spots To Improve Data Analysis
Addressing Three Blind Spots To Improve Data Analysis

Data analytics, the process of transforming data into actionable information, is a core need for a successful digital transformation strategy but continues to be addressed from an Industry 3.0 perspective. Identifying and addressing these three blind spots is critical for scalable, and ultimately, successful data analytics.

March 17, 2023
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Is Flow Another Reporting Tool?
Is Flow Another Reporting Tool?

On the surface, you might categorize Flow as just a reporting tool, but to do so would really miss out on all of the value Flow is designed to add to your organization. Let's explore why Flow is not just another reporting tool.

March 17, 2023
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Flow Software Joins the Eclipse Foundation and Sparkplug Working Group
Flow Software Joins the Eclipse Foundation and Sparkplug Working Group

Flow Software proudly joins the Eclipse Foundation and incorporates MQTT Sparkplug B into it's product offerings, as both a subscribing and publishing client.

March 17, 2023
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3 Reasons Why Water Utilities Choose Flow
3 Reasons Why Water Utilities Choose Flow

Data has become a commodity. However, there is still a great deal of untapped potential in data sources sitting around in many facilities. Learn why water utilities choose Flow.

March 17, 2023
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How To Win At Information Managment
How To Win At Information Managment

More data, more analysis, more information to manage. How do you improve data readiness without increasing manpower? Let's examine the common challenges experienced with information management and decision support systems in the manufacturing space today.

March 17, 2023
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Success Stories

Learn how some of Flow's customers have experienced their own wins deploying a Unified Analtyics Framework.

This project focused on water supply management for the small town of Merweville in the Karoo, South Africa. While the town's population is small, with less than 2000 people living there, there is an ongoing drought here, and deficits in water supply monitoring and management hampered the water supply to residents and farmers in the area. Flow Software and INTEG System Integrators had an innovative solution.
Flow Helps Manage Water During Drought Season in the Karoo

This project focused on water supply management for the small town of Merweville in the Karoo, South Africa. While the town's population is small, with less than 2000 people living there, there is an ongoing drought here, and deficits in water supply monitoring and management hampered the water supply to residents and farmers in the area. Flow Software and INTEG System Integrators had an innovative solution.

September 5, 2022
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CCBA needed a solution to automatically capture and account for downtime, speed losses, and production numbers on all their filling lines. In addition, they required trustworthy information to support confident, timely, and accurate decision-making.
Flow Bridges Coca-Cola Beverages Africa’s OT and IT with Analytics-Ready Information

CCBA needed a solution to automatically capture and account for downtime, speed losses, and production numbers on all their filling lines. In addition, they required trustworthy information to support confident, timely, and accurate decision-making.

May 10, 2022
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“I cannot express the ease with which Flow can be implemented, configured and used as well as the aggregated, timebased information value it delivers from a multitude of sources.”
Thanks to real-time intelligence, Woodlands Dairy cuts water costs and raw material usage

“I cannot express the ease with which Flow can be implemented, configured and used as well as the aggregated, timebased information value it delivers from a multitude of sources.”

April 3, 2022
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The main challenge facing the production team was the lack of timely decision making and protracted delays in picking up production glitches which impacted on-the-go decision making.
Flow helps one of the largest coal and heavy mineral companies in South Africa

The main challenge facing the production team was the lack of timely decision making and protracted delays in picking up production glitches which impacted on-the-go decision making.

March 30, 2022
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AB InBev needed to migrate from a disjointed collection of breweries throughout Africa to a unified Zone where comparisons are made like-for-like.
A Tiered Approached: Streamlining Vertical Data Integration for ABInBev

AB InBev needed to migrate from a disjointed collection of breweries throughout Africa to a unified Zone where comparisons are made like-for-like.

March 29, 2022
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The end-user’s reporting consisted of Excel workbooks connecting to historians for data collection and aggregation. Manual scale readings were entered every shift. Together with erratic Excel-to-Historian connectivity, Excel file corruption and human error during manual entry, this “reporting” process proved inaccurate and frustrating.
Mining Intelligence made simple for South Africa’s Largest Coal Mine

The end-user’s reporting consisted of Excel workbooks connecting to historians for data collection and aggregation. Manual scale readings were entered every shift. Together with erratic Excel-to-Historian connectivity, Excel file corruption and human error during manual entry, this “reporting” process proved inaccurate and frustrating.

March 29, 2022
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PPC required an enterprise-wide manufacturing, reporting, and information management solution to standardize KPI collection, calculation, and visualization across all sites.
A Single Version of the Truth for PPC Cement South Africa

PPC required an enterprise-wide manufacturing, reporting, and information management solution to standardize KPI collection, calculation, and visualization across all sites.

March 29, 2022
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