Cross-manufacturer comparison
One duty, one run, every eligible pump in your library — instead of the same duty typed into four selectors.
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Your pump knowledge should not live in a folder of spreadsheets.
You work across manufacturers, and every one of them hands you a different tool. The asset worth building is the library you keep — and the selections you can still explain a year later.
WHAT THE DAY LOOKS LIKE NOW
Five brands, five tools, and one spreadsheet holding it together.
Each manufacturer publishes its own selector, several behind a distributor login, and none of them will compare against a competitor. So the comparison happens in Excel, the curve gets read by eye or traced into a sheet, and the datasheet is assembled by hand at the end.
START WITH WHAT YOU HAVE
The pumps you quote are already in a spreadsheet. Start there.
Upload the Excel workbook, review what Floworx Lite read — values, trims, curve points, with diagnostics on anything ambiguous — and approve it into your library. From the second job onwards it is reusable, across every manufacturer you work with.
WHAT CHANGES
Four things that stop being manual.
Not conveniences — these are the steps where the current chain leaks time and confidence.
Viscous duties
Corrected inside the selection, with the published and corrected bases labelled, rather than on a calculator page you copy from.
Variable speed
Duty points solved against the manufacturer’s speed limits, from the published curve speed — not affinity-law arithmetic in a spreadsheet.
The deliverable
Data sheet and charts generated from the reviewed selection, not assembled in a template at the end of the day.
INTELLIGENCE
Put your name on it, because Intelligence shows the basis.
Floworx Intelligence sits beside the candidate you picked: Summary for the resolved point, Chart for the curve position, Hydraulics for the corrected working fluid, and Variable Speed for the solved speed family. A recommendation you can defend in a review, not just a number you accepted.
THE HONEST OBJECTION
“I would have to enter my own pumps.”
Less than you think, and it is the trade that makes the library yours. A published catalogue gives you breadth on day one and no ownership; a private library is reusable from the second job onwards. Start with the three pumps you quote most — exactly what the Free plan holds.
IF YOU ARE NOT ALONE
A branch, a practice, or a rep team answering the same way every time.
The Team plan shares one workspace, one library and one method across three included seats, with more available. Where consistency is the actual problem, a shared library is the fix — not another shared folder.
WHY YOU CAN PUT YOUR NAME ON IT
It behaves the way you would if you were being careful.
The behaviour that matters is what happens when the data is incomplete.
The manufacturer’s data stays the basis
Your curve data is used as published, and it stays visible as the basis of every result.
Published and corrected stay labelled
A viscous duty is solved on a corrected curve, and the published curve it came from is named alongside it.
You can see what is known
Where a manufacturer never published NPSHr, the result reads n/a rather than a number you would have to catch.
Results stay inside the valid range
A duty outside a curve’s domain is reported as such, so a result never travels further than the data behind it.
Bring in three pumps and run a real selection.
The Free plan is the real engineering product: your own private pump library, real duty points, real fluids, variable-speed analysis and the resolved operating point. No card and no sales call — start engineering right away.