About this episode

The episode discusses practical applications of FlowFuse in closing the application gap on the shop floor.

In Part 2 of our FlowFuse mini-series on Unplugged: An IIoT Podcast , Phil Seboa and Ed Fuentes get practical with Kristopher Sandoval from FlowFuse. We move from “what is the application gap?” to what it looks like to close it on the shop floor. Kristopher walks through real operational use cases—OEE dashboards, shift handover workflows, quality validation, and asset monitoring—starting with the operational problem and then showing the working application. We also dig into the technical mechanics: how FlowFuse Expert turns plain-language requirements into Node-RED nodes and flows, updates to the immersive editor in FlowFuse 2.30, and the governance layer (snapshot comparisons, change review, and deployment management) that helps teams keep changes production-ready. Anchor use cases (agreed with FlowFuse) OEE: “Build me an OEE dashboard for three production lines with downtime tracking and shift comparison.” Shift handover: “Create a shift handover workflow where operators log production issues, actions taken, and outstanding risks.” Quality validation: “Create a workflow that validates production data and alerts operators when thresholds are exceeded.” Asset monitoring: “Create…

People in this episode

Hosts: Phil Seboa, Ed Fuentes

Guest: Kristopher Sandoval

Topics covered

• IIoT
• operational use cases
• data insights
• OEE dashboards
• shift handover
• quality validation
• asset monitoring

Keywords

• FlowFuse
• OEE
• shift handover
• quality validation
• asset monitoring
• Node-RED
• operational problem

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FlowFuse

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