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Information Hub, Powered by FlowSo much more than just reporting

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Presented By: Leonard Smit

Company: Flow Software

Collect. Calculate. Visualize

SQL Historian Cloud IoT

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KPI Engine Reports, Dashboards, Notifications

4 Pillars of the Information Hub


Integrate (version 5.x)

Data API• Workflow Systems• Business Intelligence Tools• ERP Systems

Integration Engine• Flow Tier 2• MQTT• SQL• OPC• SAP XI

Dataset Definition

“Replication”

Measure Values

Event Periods

Contextual data

New

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F(x)

KPI Engine Reports, Dashboards, Notifications

IntegrateSQL

Flow

OPC / MQTT


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Build your Model (provide structure)

Setup a Reporting Calendar

Connect to your Data Sources

Create and deploy a Measure

Calculations, Rollups, KPIs

Event detection and Context

Manual Entry (and Validation)

Reporting and Dashboarding

Message Notification and Delivery

SQL Integration

Flow Tier 2 Integration


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Build your Model


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Connect to your Data Sources – Something New!

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Boiler Temperature Now


Boiler Steam Totaliser Automatic Rollover Handling


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Create a Calculated Measure


Create an Aggregated Measure


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Create an Event with Contextual Information


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Manual Entry into the Flow Information Platform


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Creating Flow Reports and Dashboards


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Creating Notification Messages

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SQL Integration



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• Backfill / Corrections

• Comments

• Limit Exceptions

Events

• Backfill / Corrections

• Comments

• Limit Exceptions

Information Platform

Data Collection

Data Integration


Adding Integration Consumers

Live Demo


KPI “Tiering” (information at all levels of your business)

Tier 1 – Site Level• Site level modelled by department, physical layout, etc.• Site level data collection (PDCs, SQL, Historians, manual entry, etc.)

• Site level target setting• Site level reporting, charting and dashboarding• Site level commentary, collaboration

Tier 2 – Zone / Region Level• “Replication” from Tier 1 (daily KPIs and upwards)

• Zone level KPI calculation, target setting, commentary, etc.• Zone level benchmarking and comparison

Tier 3 – Global Level• “Replication” from Tier 2 (or Tier 1 directly)

• Global level KPI calculation, target setting, commentary, etc.• Global level reporting, charting and dashboarding

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SQL Integration


10 + 1 Easy Steps!


Roadmap (current release 4.3.4)

• 5.0• Flow Server (enhanced functionality, more charting flexibility, search API, data API)

• Integration Engine (extending our “Single Version of the Truth” philosophy)

• Consumer - Flow Tier 2 (push measure values and commentary into Tier 2 Flow)

• Consumer – SQL (push measure / event data to SQL database)

• Template Management (enabling faster rollout and system management)

• Data Source – OPCUA• Data Source – Sigfox

• Notification Server – Slack


Roadmap (continued …)

• 5.x• Consumer – OPC (push measure values to OPC Client for HMI consumption)

• Consumer - MQTT (push measure values to MQTT broker for HMI consumption)

• Consumer – SAP XI (push measure / event data to SAP via XI webservice)

• Data Source - MQTT

• 6.x• Flow Online (“Flow as a Service” cloud based offering)

• Flow Mobile Forms (manual data entry via the Flow Mobile app)

• Flow Analysis Engine (Machine Learning for state classification and prediction)• Multi-Language Support


Video Demonstration (YouTube)

https://www.flow-software.com/

https://support.flow-software.com/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX1cRZju7R9HiRFaZnqXIYv_AdFNwiQ6F

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