Flow is typically used as a Production/Manufacturing, Performance Management and Analysis System. It is particularly useful in industrial applications because it understands industrial tag-based time-series data. It can connect to, and automatically collect data from multiple data sources, making it an ideal system for centralized reporting and data analysis.
Flow is a generic data management tool that can be used across many industries:
- Food and Beverage
- Oil and Gas
- Automotive
- Packaging and Materials
- Chemicals
- Consumer Goods
- Metal and Mining
- Water and Wastewater
Within an organization, Flow can be used to track many Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in various categories:
- Safety (e.g. Lost time injuries, Incidents, etc.)
- People (e.g. Absenteeism, Vacancies, etc.)
- Environment (e.g. Non-compliance Incidents, etc.)
- Quality (e.g. Product quality KPIs, etc.)
- Production (e.g. Efficiency, OEE, etc.)
- Wastage (e.g. Product losses, etc.)
- Water Usage (e.g. Water usage ratio, Water usage cost, etc.)
- Energy Usage (e.g. Electricity reticulation, Gas usage, Coal usage, etc.)