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Flowtics for textile machinery. Every spindle and loom, serviced on real running hours.

Flowtics reads the PLC on spinning, weaving and processing machines and shows speed, breaks and running hours live. Every stop has a reason, and service follows how long each machine has really run.

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Running today on 100+ paper and packaging machines at 29 sites. Machines in this industry are set up the same way; we check yours on the free visit.

Ring frame · Shed B · live

The machines

Built for the machines you run.

Long-running machines in large numbers, where every hour of downtime costs output.

  • Ring frames

    Spindle speed, breaks and doffing.

  • Carding machines

    Running time, output and stops.

  • Looms

    Picks per minute, and stops by reason.

  • Open-end spinning

    Rotor speed and output.

  • Dyeing machines

    Temperature against the recipe, and cycle time.

  • Stenters and dryers

    Chamber temperatures, speed and fans.

What Flowtics reads

The numbers your work runs on.

Read straight from the PLC, shown live and kept for reports. If a reading isn’t in your PLC, we tell you on the free visit.

  • 01

    Speed

    Spindle, rotor or loom speed, live.

  • 02

    Breaks and stops

    The break rate per hour, and every stop with its reason.

  • 03

    Output

    Kg or metres per shift, from the PLC.

  • 04

    Running hours

    Per machine, so lubrication and service happen on time.

  • 05

    Motor temperatures

    Drive motors, with the limit drawn on the trend.

  • 06

    Energy

    kWh per shift and per kg, where meters are connected.

Ready-made screens that fit
  • Day-wise
  • Shift-wise
  • Maintenance schedule
  • Energy
See the screens

Alarms and rules

The right person hears first.

You set the limits, and who is told on which channel. These are the alarms teams in this industry usually start with.

  • Break rate above limitWho hears: Shift in-chargeApp
  • Drive motor temperature highWho hears: MaintenanceSMS
  • Bearing lubrication dueWho hears: MaintenanceEmail
  • Dyeing temperature off the recipeWho hears: Dyeing masterWhatsApp
  • Machine stopped for more than 15 minutesWho hears: Shift in-chargeWhatsApp

Who it’s for

Whether you build these machines or run them.

If you build them

  • Keep hundreds of installed machines serviced on running hours, from one screen.
  • See the break rate and motor data when a mill says the machine underperforms.
  • Set up a machine model once, then add every machine of that model in minutes.
For machine builders

If you run them

  • Downtime by machine and shift, and the stops that cost the most output.
  • Lubrication and service on time across hundreds of machines.
  • Output per shift without anyone walking the shed with a register.
For factories

Questions

What people in this industry ask first.

All questions

Other industries

The same platform, other numbers.

Book a free visit

See what your own machines can already tell you.

Half a day at your works and an honest written answer. No cost, no obligation.

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What happens on the visit

  1. 01
    We come to your works

    Half a day. We look at two or three of your machines and their PLCs.

  2. 02
    We check what Flowtics can read

    Which readings, alarms and counters it can pick up, and what they would show you.

  3. 03
    You get a written report

    With your own numbers. Then you decide: stop there, or start a pilot.

  • No cost
  • No obligation
  • No technical preparation