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Learn what's new in Flow 5.4.0 ➝ New Features: The new release includes some exciting new features like model security, InfluxDB as a data source and event trigger enhancements, to name a few. ➝ Usability: We'll show you added engineering usability features like copy/paste, import/export, and using templates for events and charts. ➝ Fixes and Updates: Apart from a number of performance enhancements, we've added support for .Net Core 3.1 and .Net Framework 4.8, as well as OS support for Windows Server 2019.

It's important for every business to know where their Data is. And how to get value from their Data. Typically, data management processes are ruled by personalities with few actionable outcomes. Lenny shares the analogy of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. And how they relate to real challenges companies face with their industrial data today.

We often get this question, "is Flow just another reporting tool?" Lenny shares some key points on what makes a good reporting tool. And how Flow is different.

OEE can be a bit abstract for plant floor operators. But for managers its a great tool. Operators perform best when they are given goals that are real-time, easily interpreted and highly motivational. In this video you will; ➝ Learn how to leverage Flow for Scheduling and OEE. ➝ Learn how you can use Flow to create your production schedule, provide OEE for your manager, and TAED for your plant floor operator. ➝Expand the traditional world of OEE with utilities, intensity and CIP KPIs. Capitalize net Utilities and Intensity.

Lenny Smit 00:00 Hi, everybody, Lenny here. Clarise Rautenbach 00:01 Hi, and I'm Clarise, and welcome to the Flow takeaway video series. Lenny Smit 00:05 In this video series, we are going to give you guys some helpful tips and tricks on what we find in the industry when we deploy a Flow Information Platform. Now to be honest, data is almost becoming like a little bit of a commodity. But we are still seeing that it is a very untapped potential that's sitting in most of the plants in these days. And when people come to us looking for solutions, most of the challenges that they do face is data driven challenges. Clarise Rautenbach 00:33 Yes, so let's look at the water industry. Hundreds of process indicators are being tracked in the water industry. And I guess that's not the issue today. After all, we live in an information age. Lenny Smit 00:42 Correct. Sensors are getting cheaper. The advent of IoT, and more devices are getting put down on the facilities. I don't think that's the issue. Especially in the water industry, we do sit with, unfortunately ailing infrastructure. We do sit with solutions that's built on proprietary software protocols, and a lot of disparate systems. So, we need to be able to connect to all those disparate systems to get true meaningful data information from that data. Clarise Rautenbach 01:10 And luckily, there are modern solutions like Flow. So, let's look at the three ways that Flow can help you. Number one, Flow can connect to multiple data sources. Lenny Smit 01:19 Correct. Now think about this guys, you've got chemical analysis information and lab samples sitting potentially in your lab system. You've got the total water that you are treating in your process historian. There might be some manual data that your operator still need to capture from the plant floor. Now Flow can connect to all of these. Even give you the capability to manually enter data. And then you can create one single repository of all this data to turn that into information. Big buzzword going around of creating a data ops foundation for your facility. And Flow can help you to create that foundation to create a data optimal. Clarise Rautenbach 01:53 Number two, Flow can transform time series data as well. Lenny Smit 01:56 Correct. One of the principles that Flow was built on is that we understand time series data extremely well, especially time series data that's been generated on manufacturing environments. So, Flow can take that time series data, and convert it into an actionable KPI. Think about this, you need to create a chemical dosage and compliance report. Flow can take that raw data and actually turn it into something that someone can sign off from a compliance perspective. Clarise Rautenbach 02:21 And last but not least, Flow is a self-service solution. Lenny Smit 02:24 Correct. Your utilities engineers will have the capability to create their own dashboards and KPIs. And they need to be able to pivot very quickly on an ever-changing world on what they need to manage. So, think about this. Today, I need to look at a KPI for my chemical analysis. Tomorrow, I need to look at a KPI for turbidity as an example. So, we give you the tool and the capability to very quickly create your own KPIs and dashboards with almost no coding whatsoever required. Clarise Rautenbach 02:51 And that's it. That's our free takeaways for this week's video series. We hope you enjoyed it. And if you want to know more about Flow, you can check out our water demo on the website or contact us for a live demo. Thank you for watching. Lenny Smit 03:07 Thanks, everybody. Cheers.

A bit of a cliché, “You don’t know where you are heading if you don’t know where you have been”. In this video you will understand how Flow uses Historical data to calculate a production run rate. Then project the results to the end of the week, which will help your team “see” where they are heading.

One of the key components of Flow is to create a platform where silo’s of information can be connected to provide context to one another. In this how-to video you will learn how you can get data from a web API into Flow in conjunction to typical process related data.

In this video, Leonard Smit explains how you can improve your Solar Fleet's ROI by collating, calculating and monitoring KPIs using the the Flow Information Platform. In any renewable energy business, whether its Wind Farms or Solar Plants, your fleet produces vast quantities of data from multiple sources. Using Flow Software, you can harness that data and transform it into useful, actionable information. Augment this information with weather data to calculate expected, and projected, energy production. Use Flow’s regression analysis to project actual production. Capture and analyse inverter faults to quickly identify equipment inefficiencies. Flow makes optimized operational effectiveness possible! Thanks for watching the video! Subscribe! 👉https://bit.ly/SubFlowSoftware Follow us on LinkedIn! 👉 https://bit.ly/FlowLinkedIn Feedback / Questions? 👉 information@flow-software.com