Mobile · iPhone, iPad and Android
A native app built screen by screen for the way owners and supervisors check on a shop: between meetings, at a customer’s site, or from the truck on a Sunday. One glance tells you how every machine is doing.
Lock Screen
Turn on Show on Lock Screen for any machine and it stays there, updating on its own. Pick it up, look, put it back.
What you can do from your phone
Machines
Each card shows the machine’s status, how long it has been running, the job and program on it and the part count. Lights-out jobs are tagged so you know which machines are running unattended.
Machine detail
Open a machine to see its whole day on one screen: a 24-hour status bar, time spent in attended run, lights out, idle and stopped, parts made each hour against target, and every alarm with its reason.
Live camera
Workstations with a network camera stream straight to the app. When a machine stops, you can see why before you decide whether to drive in.
Alerts
A notification when a machine stops, a tool needs reordering or a job finishes. Tap it and you land on that machine, already showing what happened.
The detail
We run a machine shop ourselves, and we use this app every day. It got this way one small fix at a time.
Light and dark are drawn separately, so the app is easy on the eyes on a night shift and readable in the sun on the lot.
Running is green, idle yellow, stopped red and lights out purple, on the phone, the iPad, the desktop and the floor board.
A lights-out capable machine shows all 24 hours. Every other machine is measured on the shifts it actually runs.
Part counts, run time and cost per part come from the same Flow server, so a number on the phone is never a different number at the office.
Every button and switch is at least 44 points, large enough for a thumb, a glove or a quick look between meetings.
Each screen was used by our own machinists and owners on real jobs before it shipped, and changed when it did not work.
iPhone Duo, iPad and Android
Unfold an iPhone Duo and the machine list and machine detail sit side by side. iPad gets a layout of its own, with room for the whole floor at once. Android phones get the same screens, alerts and numbers as iPhone.
iPhone Duo
Two panes on the 7.6-inch inner display
iPad
The whole floor at once
Android
Phones running Android
Private by design
The app reads from your own Flow server. Nothing it shows is sent to an outside AI provider or anyone else to be worked out, and signing out of a phone removes its access.
How Flow’s private AI works →Install the app on your phone, sign in with your Flow account and your machines are there.
