September 2025

While I spend a lot of my time thinking big picture (as evidenced by last month’s AI update), the team is silently, miraculously, churning away incredible updates that I don’t even know about. I want to take this update to highlight them:

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Document Viewers in Flows and QRLast month we made a big deal about parsing documents with AI. This month the team slipped in something obvious but just as impactful: document viewers. You can now see drawings or extracted values directly in Flows and QR without downloading files. Not rocket science, but it saves clicks, time, and irritation.

Split Shipments

Production doesn’t always run to plan, and customers don’t always want to wait. Now you don’t have to. With split shipments you can send what’s ready, when it’s ready. Flows will group the rest automatically and even create a fresh packing slip. Simple. Effective.

Workstation Queue Management

Priorities change by the hour on a shop floor. Now you can keep up with them with drag-and-drop queue management. Whether you’re in the Gantt view, a specific run, or across all workstations—you can reshuffle the plan in seconds and get back to what matters.

That leaves me working with strategic partners on the longer view, which I’m incredibly grateful for. We have really interesting announcements on “idea to part” operations that are forthcoming relatively soon. If you want a sneak peak, catch up with Simon at ICAM, email me or find us at Formnext. I’m probably only there for a couple days (have to be at DMC in Florida that week too). I’ve said for years, I’ll be happy when others can take my place there – and it’s beginning to happen!!

That’s not the only commercial change. We have also instituted a new referral scheme - $3,500 for any Flows related referrals that sign. That’s significant. Hopefully an incentive for you to tell us when a company is ready for growth. Help us identify the people that are ready to partner, and we won’t have to bug those that aren’t 😊

There will be one more update prior to Formnext – I can tell you about how our stand is shaping up then. We’ve got a fun little  I can share our plans for Formnext then, and hopefully tell you a bit more about the projects.