Transform Historic & Real Time Data
Into Calculated Tags, KPIs, & Events...
@ Enterprise Scale

Accessing Real Time Data Is Easy - Turning That Data Into Contextually Rich Information Has Been The Struggle!

Collecting data is simple; turning it into actionable information is not! The management of data integration, collation, and contextualization is the biggest problem facing industry today. Flow centralizes and democratizes the three fundamental elements manufacturing operations needs to scale analytics.

1. Templatized Data Model

Flow is ideal for building an information model of metrics to improve production efficiency, increase quality, drive maintenance decisions, measure utility or material consumption, understand downtime, and monitor adherence to production plans. Templatized Flow models are centrally managed, honoring enterprise-established business rules and providing governance, while remaining flexible. Operations deploy template instances and add their own site-specific context. Since Flow information models are not hard coded to specific data sources, each deployed instance is adaptable to the site’s environment, regardless of the system architecture.

2. Calculation Engine

Flow’s data engine excels at KPI calculations and was built specifically to address the challenges found within manufacturing environments. Connect operational databases and servers to Flow and the engine is ready to join data points from different systems and databases, cleanse your data, and slice it into context rich KPIs. Flow handles the rerunning of calculations, versions results, and allows for KPI interrogation, even letting users drill down and examine the raw data within the original source. Trust is everything, and with Flow you can be confident that the information driving your daily meetings, supporting your people, and strengthening your operations is solid.

3. Information Hub

With new calculations and KPIs created, Flow becomes your hub to share contextually rich information with other applications and people at your plants and within the entire enterprise. A corporate Flow instance connects your site deployments, and all underlying data sources, to your data teams and advanced applications. Flow unifies a myriad of operational database formats that can be queried without requiring knowledge of their structure and return results in a single standard schema. As more and more subject matter experts use Flow, their expertise further enriches the information before additional analysis or data warehousing is completed.

Build a Unified Analytics Framework

Flow believes in a Unified Analytics Framework - an architecture that is designed to take your Unified Namespace (UNS) and expand the collection and sharing of real time data to include calculated KPIs and access to historic databases.

Imagine what you could do if you had a scalable platform built specifically to transform OT and IoT data streams into analytics-ready information. Flow includes the tools you need to:

Model

Consolidated modeling to abstract and unify multiple underlying namespaces

Connect

Connection into multiple data sources, including OT, IoT, IT, and manually entered

Transform

Calculation services to clean, transform, contextualize, and combine time-series and transactional data

Visualize

Decision support via browser- based visualization, reporting, dashboarding, and notification

Bridge

Data collection and bridging via industry standard -protocols, including MQTT and REST

For scalability, Flow provides a modeling and configuration environment with an open architecture and templating. Leverage the work you have done in your existing systems while using Flow's self-service no code/low code approach.

Industrial Data Management is hard. Which ways have you tried?