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Why Flowtics

Why Flowtics. Compared honestly with what you'd use instead.

Most teams run on WhatsApp groups and Excel, the SCADA that came with the PLC, something built in-house or another IIoT platform. Here is how Flowtics compares, row by row, including where something else is the better choice.

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The other columns describe common setups in Indian plants, not any specific product.

Time to your first live alert
  • FlowticsHours
  • In-house or other IIoTWeeks to months
  • SCADA / HMIWeeks per site
  • WhatsApp + ExcelNever: nothing is recorded

Hours for a machine once its PLC addresses are known.

Sound familiar?

The machine knows what happened. You don't.

Every PLC already records speed, stops and alarms. That data never reaches the people who need it, so problems turn into phone calls, trips and arguments.

01
You hear about a breakdown from an angry customer.By then the machine has been down for hours.
With Flowtics

You see it first. Which machine, which alarm, since when, often before the customer picks up the phone.

02
An engineer travels two days to fix a six-minute fault.Travel, hotel and a week of waiting for the customer.
With Flowtics

Diagnose before anyone travels. Alarm history, live data and the remedy your own team wrote. Many faults get fixed on a phone call.

03
"Your machine isn't giving the speed you promised."It turns into an argument nobody can win.
With Flowtics

Settle it with evidence. The machine's own record of speed, stops and how it was actually run.

04
The machine is a one-time sale.Once it's paid for, the relationship goes quiet, and the spares are bought elsewhere.
With Flowtics

Earn every year. Sell monitoring as a yearly service contract. Maintenance reminders bring the spares orders back to you.

How many site visits did your team make last month, and how many could have been a phone call?

Flowtics for machine builders

The full comparison

Row by row.

Sixteen things that decide whether machine data actually gets used. Including one where SCADA wins.

FlowticsIn-house or other IIoT platformsSCADA / HMI softwareWhatsApp groups and Excel
Getting started
First live machine✓Hours, once the PLC addresses are known~Weeks to months: build it, or configure and integrate~An integrator project, weeks per site✕Never: nothing is recorded
Who you need✓Your own PLC or maintenance engineer, with our team beside them the first time✕Developers and IT, for as long as it runs~An integrator to set it up, IT to run the server~Someone typing it up every day
New hardware✓Usually none: runs on the HMI or panel PC already there~Often a gateway box per machine~A server and licences per site✓None, because nothing is connected
How it's priced✓One-time licence + AMC. No charge per machine, user, dashboard or report~Developer salaries, or a subscription per machine or user~Licences per site, per tag or per client~Free, but paid for in lost hours
Every day
When an alarm fires✓WhatsApp, SMS, email or app, per person, with escalation~Email or app, if someone builds it~An alarm on the screen in the control room✕Someone notices, then calls or posts in the group
Why it happened✓Ask the AI analyst, in any language~Charts you read yourself~Trend charts you read yourself✕Guesswork, and arguments
What to do next✓Your team's remedy for that alarm, and a one-tap call list✕Not built in✕Not built in~Whoever remembers the last fix
Reports✓Shift, day, job and reel reports from the machine, emailed on schedule~Built one by one~Exports someone formats in Excel✕Typed into Excel the next morning
Maintenance✓Due by running hours, count or calendar, with reminders~If someone builds it✕Usually not part of it✕After the breakdown
On your phone✓Web platform and mobile app, Android and iPhone~A web page, sometimes an app~Mostly at the plant; remote access is extra~Messages and photos only
Running it
Changing a setting✓From the platform, point by point where you allow it, every change logged~A developer changes the code~An engineer at the site, or remote desktop✕Someone at the machine
Machines at many customers✓Every machine at every customer; each customer sees only theirs~Possible, with custom work✕One plant at a time✕The customer calls when it's already late
Your brand✓Web platform and mobile app under your name~Sometimes, at extra cost✕Rarely✕No
When the internet drops✓Flowtics Edge keeps the data and sends it when the line is back~Depends on how it was built✓Runs on the plant network✕Nothing was recorded anyway
Where the data lives✓We run it for you, or you keep it in-house: your own cloud or a server in your plant~In-house: wherever it was built. Platforms: usually the vendor's cloud✓On a server at the plant✕In phones and laptops
Real-time process control~Not a control system. It writes back only where you allow it~Not usually✓Built for it: control and interlocks from the control room✕No

Already have SCADA? Keep it.

SCADA runs your process in real time. Flowtics reads the same PLCs and adds what SCADA doesn't: alerts on people's phones, reports nobody types, maintenance on time, the AI analyst, and every machine on one platform, wherever it is.

How Flowtics connects

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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