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Innovate from within - Why manufacturing must embrace Citizen Developers

In the early days when I was working as a solution architect, I found myself in a peculiar position, observing an intriguing relationship between Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) departments. While OT departments struggled to develop digital solutions, the IT departments held an unspoken authority in this domain, leading to a paradoxical dynamic that often seemed to hinder rather than facilitate progress.
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What are Certified Nodes?
Explore Certified Nodes for Node-RED—ensuring robustness with quality, security, and support standards. -

Embracing Innovation: Build vs Buy in MES
Transform MES strategy with Node-RED and FlowFuse for unparalleled efficiency and adaptability. -

Service Disruption Report for October 11th, 2023
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What are FlowFuse Blueprints?
Explore the concept of FlowFuse Blueprints, the pre-built solutions to simplify Node-RED experience, and take a look at the first three Blueprints we've launched for manufacturing applications. -

Integrate your own widgets with Dashboard 2.0
Explore Dashboard 2.0's 0.6.0 Release with third-party widget support. Learn more, build your widgets, and join our community on GitHub. -

Community News October 2023
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How to Use Private Custom Nodes in FlowFuse?
Learn how to set up a private Node-RED catalog and npm repository with FlowFuse's latest features, allowing you to manage custom nodes securely and efficiently. -

Custom Vuetify components for Dashboard 2.0
Expand your dashboard with the full collection of Vuetify components -

Updating our branding across GitHub, npm and Dockerhub
Renaming our packages and containers and what it means for our users -

How ChatGPT improves Node-RED Developer Experience
Discover how ChatGPT enhances Node-RED development, from generating code to interpreting flows, and explore its impact on the community. -

Share & Preview Flows on flows.nodered.org
Explore FlowFuse's latest contribution to flows.nodered.org, an interactive "Flow Viewer" for sharing and embedding flows in articles and forum posts. -

Modernize your legacy industrial data. Part 2.
A deeper dive into making the most of legacy industrial data from the likes of Modbus and older, non IIoT protocols and putting it to work in an IIoT world. -

Tulip Operation Calling Event Report
Tulip's recent Operation Calling customer event was held in Boston. Here are some comments based on attending the event. -

Modernize your legacy industrial data
Learn how to bridge legacy industrial protocols like Modbus to the IIoT era using Node-RED and buffer parsing. Explore data types, conversion challenges, and examples -

Community News September 2023
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FlowFuse announces a Node-RED stack for Industry 4.0 applications on ctrlX AUTOMATION
FlowFuse is now offering Node-RED to customers that want to deploy it on the Rexrtoh ctrlX platform. -

Dynamic Markdown, Tables & Notebooks with Dashboard 2.0
Explore the latest features in Dashboard 2.0's v0.4.0 release, including "Notebook" layout, dynamic Markdown & Table widgets, and additional enhancements. -

FlowFuse Cloud Starter package - The easiest way to get started with Node-RED
To allow the discovery of more features that FlowFuse has to offer FlowFuse is introducing a Starter package