Nsflow

Nsflow is an augmented reality platform for industry built around two products, Digital Workflows for interactive training, instructions, service procedures and checklists, and Remote Support for connecting field technicians to distant experts. Nsflow Box packages the platform as a plug and play appliance the vendor says runs within 30 minutes.

The Box is the distinctive part and it answers an objection that stops industrial deployments more often than price does. Manufacturing networks are frequently isolated from the internet on purpose, and a cloud platform is not merely inconvenient in that setting, it is prohibited. Shipping the platform as hardware that runs inside the plant removes the question rather than arguing about it.

Promising a 30 minute setup addresses the second objection, which is that industrial software arrives with an implementation project attached. A plant manager evaluating augmented reality is usually funding a trial out of an operating budget, and anything requiring a systems integrator will not get past the first conversation.

The use case list is unusually specific, naming factory acceptance testing, health and safety and fire training, and service, repair and overhaul optimisation, which suggests deployments in place rather than a generic pitch.