ELEV8 2024 Recap: Building a Digital Infrastructure
On 22 and 25 October, the Ignition, Canary, and Flow communities gathered in Hazendal Estate in the Western Cape and Irene Country Lodge in Gauteng for the 2024 Elev8 Community Conference. This year’s theme, “Building your Digital Infrastructure,”…
Digital Infrastructure: Information Management with Flow
What’s the difference between Data Management and Information Management – And why should you care? Gary shares how Flow eliminates silos, scales your analytics, and…
Flow 7 Technical Deep Dive
Version 7.1 is a Service Pack for the major 7.0 release. It uses .Net 8 and includes several new features, performance enhancements, and bug fixes. We look closer at what’s new and…
Flow 7.1: Optimise Data Transformation for KPIs, Batch Reporting, OEE, and Beyond
Using the Flow OEE template as an example, Rikus demonstrates how to streamline Ignition projects by minimising complex coding and scripting. This approach focuses on scaling data processing while…
Customer Showcase: Reproplast
Reproplast, a leading force in the circular economy for polyolefins, has integrated digital solutions to streamline their production processes. In doing so, they have gained more profound insights into operational…
Customer Showcase: Clover South Africa
Clover Industries, a leading group in branded foods and beverages, has adopted Ignition, Canary, and Flow as their digital infrastructure to address essential technology requirements. In this video, Deon discusses…
Customer Showcase: Devil’s Peak
Devil’s Peak Brewing Company, founded in 2012 in Cape Town, has grown from a small microbrewery into one of South Africa’s leading craft beer and cider producers. With a strong focus…
Fireside Chat
This year’s Elev8 Fireside chat offered a view into the current state of the automation industry and how it’s changing. The panel touched on many important topics, such as…
The Power of Partnership: Our Top Partners of 2023
We are thrilled to bring to the forefront our top partners of 2023. These remarkable organisations have not only achieved unparalleled success within their specific industries but have also played a pivotal role in shaping our narrative.
Grindrod TCM and Implats Customer Panel
The panel discussions brought together some of the best and brightest from the worlds of automation and technology. Customers and partners participated in the panel, discussing how their companies have deployed solutions and answering audience questions.
Flow Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Basics
The diagnostics and troubleshooting basics for Ignition were aimed at the more experienced developers and users. Tebello Masedi from Element8 provided an overview of how our support team leverages supporting information during the Flow diagnostics and troubleshooting.
Building a Unified Analytic Framework (UAF) with Flow Software
Tightly integrated with the UNS is the Unified Analytics Framework. Leonard explains why you need a scalable no-code analytics framework. Most medium to large-scale manufacturers are in crisis-they cannot scale their analytics efforts to embrace today’s technologies, let alone tomorrow’s. This in-depth exploration presents a compelling case for
centralised integration.
Flow Software Fundamentals Scalable no-code analytics framework
While we recognise that our community includes many specialists, the fundamental sessions served as an introduction to Flow for many new members in attendance—the features and benefits and why and how you would deploy Flow.
DLF Live: Unleashing the Powerhouse Trio with Ignition, Canary & Flow
The Data Liberation Front team, led by Jaco, convened for their quarterly update, focusing on providing intuitive solutions for data-driven growth. Discussions included community news, product updates, and upcoming training courses.
DLF Breakfast Get-Together – Gauteng
Our third DLF Breakfast Get-Together was another raging success, and it was all thanks to the support of our partners and customers.
Case Study: Merweville – Beaufort West Local Municipality
It’s nothing new that South Africa has been struggling with drought in recent years. And one little town in particular in the Great Karoo was suffering, as it’s one of the driest parts of the country. Besides the drought, Merweville was dealing with a list of other problems that included a crumbling reservoir and tedious manual processes.
Luckily, Integ System Integrators could help save the day by installing the Ignition Platform & the Flow Information Platform.
Download the full case study to read how Ignition and Flow were able to transform Merweville’s reservoir infrastructure, modernise their processes and erase the possibility of future theft problems.
A Better Understanding Of The Analytics Continuum
Collecting data is simple; turning it into actionable Information is not! Data management, collation, and contextualisation is the industry’s biggest problem today. Analytics can help your business make informed decisions.
3 Challenges Facing the Water Industry Today
How Flow can help address these challenges in the water industry.
Data Information 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.
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. The solution needed to implement PPC’s existing KPI standards to provide actionable, trustworthy information per site and per department, allowing responsible departmental managers to make better quality decisions more frequently.
Making Sense Of All Your Data With Flow
Different industrial sectors use Flow to collect, calculate and visualise data to assist in optimising their daily operations. Learn how a leading SI empowered high-tech engineers to plant floor newbies with actionable information. Making everyday technical personnel reporting and data analysing mavericks.
Migrating a Flow instance
This technote walks through Backing up and Restoring a Flow instance. It covers both Flow-only migrations as well as Flow and Flow Instance migration. An assumption is that the required prerequisites have been installed on the new server/s.
Filtering Out Bad Data In Event Attribute Enumerations
Enumerations allow Flow to translate an event attribute from a numeric value to a human-readable string value. It does this by looking up a tag value against a lookup value called enumeration ordinal, associated with a string value. On a successful match, the event attribute value replaced with the String. An enumeration ordinal can only be of type integer, which implies that the source tag cannot be a floating-point number.
Setting Up SSL communication Flow
Throughout this guide, we provide instructions on how to configure encrypted communication between Flow components as well as devices that access the Flow Server.
Flow 5.4 is Here!
The new release includes some exciting new features like model security, InfluxDB as a data source and event trigger enhancements, to name a few.
Operational And Manufacturing Resilience In South Africa
Watch the video and learn more about Operational and Manufacturing Resilience in South Africa.
Where’s My Data? Dataops and the Unified Namespace with Ignition, Canary and Flow
Learn more about the value of the Unified Namespace. How to democratize your data, build your data model and facilitate cooperation.
#1 Changemaker Community Live!
Water Industry feature: 10 Steps to architecting a sustainable control system. And product updates. Watch the recordings here!
The Power of Community
2020 was a year like no other. Extraordinary. Demanding. Many lost their loved ones and their livelihoods – especially the most vulnerable in our communities. And the theme of resilience re-emerged, as it has so many times in our history.
How-to: Flow KPI projection
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 and help your team “see” where they are heading.
How-To: How Flow Connects To Different Web Api Sources
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. Understand how you can get data from a web API into Flow in conjunction to typical process related data.
How-To: Aggregation Methods In Flow
Understand the standard aggregation methods that Flow provides. Learn the importance of a boundary value, and custom aggregation methods.
Streamlining Vertical Data Integration for AB InBev
AB InBev world’s largest brewer. AB InBev is a multinational drink and brewing company based in Leuven, Belgium. AB InBev has a global functional management office in New York City, and regional headquarters in São Paulo, London, St. Louis, Mexico City, Bremen, Johannesburg and others.
Ep 02: Human-Centred Availability Of Data And Information
In this episode, we speak with Graeme Welton, Founder and Managing Director of Flow Software. We dive into tech start-up strategies and entrepreneurial advice for engineers. And how the Flow product was born to transform and make data available to decision-makers.
Learn more about Flow at www.flow-software.com
Flow Release 5.3
Wait. What? Version 5.3 of Flow is already here?
The New Flow 5.3
The New Flow 5.3 drastically enhances the user experience of Flow, and incorporates multiple requests from our community, to deliver better projects even faster. A wholly overhauled Flow Web Server, Templates, and Tiering. Not to mention a new and hassle-free licensing model. In this webcast, we take a guided tour through Flow 5.3 where you will discover exciting new enhancements and features like reduced Model view load-time, new charts and configuration options, remote platform deployment and report enhancements.
