The Flow Community & Ecosystem

Opto 22 has been manufacturing world-class hardware in the United States for decades. Flow can easily read data from the groov EPIC with an on-board OPC UA Server and store the raw data that the EPIC produces while waiting to run calculations.

Flow Software is an official Dell Edge Certified Partner after successfully completing Dell Edge Certification. This means that Flow's solution has been throughly tested by the team at Dell to run on their edge equipment. You can deploy Flow with ease of mind, knowing that your operationally critical systems will operate as intended, with the world's best hardware and manufacturing analytics software working hand-in-hand.

We at Flow Software are thrilled to announce our partnership with CESMII, the Smart Manufacturing Institute. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in our joint endeavor to revolutionize data utilization in the manufacturing sector. We will continue to develop our product in a way that aligns with CESMII's Smart Manufacturing Information Profiles, eventually allowing for these SMIPs to appear as Flow Information Models as well.

As a member of the Sparkplug B Working Group and compliant with its specifications for both publishing and consuming the MQTT Sparkplug B protocol, Flow Software is significantly contributing to the advancement of open and interoperable IIoT as well as the Unified Namespace, or UNS. Our involvement ensures secure, efficient, and standardized data communication within industrial IoT environments. By enabling streamlined configuration of process variables and the immediate availability of machine and sensor data, we are eliminating the need for custom connections between diverse data sources.

The partnership between Flow Software and 4IR Solutions is engineered to unlock new dimensions of value for manufacturers, intertwining advanced analytics with a streamlined, intelligent platform. Customers will gain from an enriched platform that morphs data into actionable insights and anticipatory forecasts, enabling them to navigate through the intricate landscape of the digital industrial future. Launch your Flow Instance in 4IR's fully managed hybrid cloud infrastructure that enables organizations to simplify their operational technology, increase efficiency and scalability, and reduce needed resources and costs. 4IR's professional team is not only industry-best at managed solutions, they have also put in the time to understand everything Flow and your manufacturing solution requires for long-term success.

Phoenix Contact's PLCNext is the next generation of PLC, providing a Linux environment that supports Docker. Flow Software is able to run both the Flow Bootstrap as well as the Flow Data and Integration engines within this Docker environment, giving you the capability to run Flow where your individual needs best dictate.

Flow Software, when integrated with Canary Historian, creates a powerful synergy that unlocks enhanced capabilities for manufacturers. Canary Historian's robust data collection and archival strengths, combined with Flow's prowess in data connectivity, transformation, and presentation, ensures manufacturers have real-time, accurate, and actionable insights. Flow not only connects to the Canary Historian with awareness of when Canary is in Store and Forward, but Flow also writes new values back to Canary, with the capability to backfill and overwrite as required.