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MindSphere

What is MindSphere?

MindSphere is the open operating system for the Internet of Things, based on the Siemens cloud. It is capable of connecting all your equipment and systems, extracting their data and converting it into valuable information for your business. Check out mindsphere.io – the online Hub for developers and partners.

Open IoT operating system

MindSphere has an open action protocol and various functionalities such as remote access to AWS cloud services or the PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) service.

Through its functionalities, MindSphere connects the real and virtual world to obtain all available data and convert it into valuable information to improve your business.

Being an open platform, MindSphere offers a rich ecosystem for our partners to develop applications customized to their needs

Characteristics

  • Connection of assets (machine, plants, fleets) and data upload to the cloud

  • Encryption and secure data transfer from production floor to cloud

  • Real-time IoT data collection, monitoring and analysis

  • Global monitoring of machines, plants and distributed shop floor equipment

  • Using detailed analytics to monitor asset performance

  • Leverage out-of-the-box industry MindApps, APIs and services to solve business problems

  • Capture, integrate, visualize and analyze asset data from one solution

  • Monitoring critical KPIs for operations (e.g.: energy consumption, quality, OEE, etc.)

  • Using asset operational data for predictive maintenance, energy and resource management.

Benefits

  • Gain knowledge about operational and business processes

  • Accelerated problem identification and resolution

  • Enable smarter, data-driven decision making

  • Promotion of more cost-effective and sustainable operations

  • Improved production efficiency and profitability

  • Performance and asset utilization optimization

  • Drive for continuous improvement in products and processes

PRODUCTS

Analyze MyDrives Cloud

Analyze MyDrives Cloud centrally monitors drive systems in the manufacturing and process industry.

Data such as electricity consumption, torque and power flow are collected and evaluated, for users to identify optimization requirements and

maintenance before problems occur. The app offers filter options, trend analysis with time sequences and scatter plots,

and an email notification service

Drive system data monitoring

  1. Alarms and monitoring

  2. Data acquisition and management

  3. Fault management

  4. Maintenance management

  5. Monitoring and control panel

  6. Improvement

  7. Performance management

  8. Production efficiency and flexibility

  9. Reduce downtime

  10. Increase machine availability Analytics

Benefits

  1. Production optimization

  2. Data transparency

  3. Productivity

  4. Availability

  5. Increase performance

  6. Easy to use

  7. Flexibility

  8. Speed

  9. Operational excellence

NOTIFIER

Know what is happening in the plant at all times.

With Notifier, you significantly reduce response times and downtime. You receive notifications about the status of the plant and can exchange push messages with your staff.

Automatic notifications from your facilities and push messages to your employees’ smartphones.

Notifier actively informs you about plant status and sends notifications based on rules that you can easily configure. Scarce material? Immediately inform your person responsible for supplies, wherever you are. Problems with your OEM machine? Send your service technicians before your customer even calls.

Different platforms for global distribution of local notifications

Notifier for Insights Hub

  1. Communicate with service technicians and operators around the world

  2. Configure individual alarm parameters based on all asset data available in Insights Hub

  3. Cross-app connections allow direct notifications from other apps (e.g. Performance Insight or Energy Manager)

  4. Convenient access to push notifications via the smartphone client app.

Industrial advantage notifier

  1. Communicate with service technicians and operators around the world

  2. Configure individual alarm parameters based on all asset data available in Insights Hub

  3. Cross-app connections allow direct notifications from other apps (e.g. Performance Insight or Energy Manager)

  4. Convenient access to push notifications via the smartphone client app.

Windows Server Notifier

  1. Communicate with service technicians and operators around the world

  2. Configure individual alarm parameters based on all asset data available in Insights Hub

  3. Cross-app connections allow direct notifications from other apps (e.g. Performance Insight or Energy Manager)

  4. Convenient access to push notifications via the smartphone client app.

Energy Manager

More transparency in manufacturing and infrastructure

With Energy Manager, you increase energy efficiency and reduce your energy costs. This is thanks to an extensive consumption analysis

More energy efficiency, lower energy costs

Energy Manager gives you visibility into global energy consumers, such as machines, lines or entire sites.

By connecting with Insights Hub, Siemens’ leading industrial IoT-as-a-service solution, you can retrieve consumer data around the world.

This allows you to compare energy consumers and visualize optimization potential

Energy monitoring and analysis for beginners and professionals.

Power Manager for Insights Hub

  1. Acquire and monitor energy data from assets around the world

  2. Set up individual dashboards to track energy flows and machine consumption over time, with Sankey charts and heat maps.

  3. Ready-to-use media analysis to trace energy and CO2 consumption back to each product produced

Energy Manager for Industrial Edge

  1. Acquire and monitor energy data from machines and energy meters with Industrial Edge connectivity

  2. Set up individual dashboards to track energy flows and machine consumption over time, with Sankey charts and heat maps.

  3. Ready-to-use media analysis to trace energy and CO2 consumption back to each product produced.

Power Manager SIMATIC

  1. Acquire, store, analyze and evaluate consumption data from all connected machines in detail.

  2. Wide scalability from individual machines to entire plants

  3. Professional reporting tools and analytical views for maximum transparency

  4. Certified according to ISO 50001

  5. Manual collection of energy consumption data via smartphone application.

SIMOTICS CONNECT 400 and SIDRIVE IQ Fleet.

Digitize your low voltage motor

With SIMOTICS CONNECT 400 and SIDRIVE IQ Fleet. Are you interested in getting a quick and comprehensive overview of the operating status of the low voltage motors that drive your applications,

like pumps, fans or compressors? With the SIMOTICS CONNECT 400 plug-&-play connectivity module and the Insights Hub SIDRIVE IQ Fleet analysis application,

 You can easily deploy a cost-effective cloud-based solution for continuous, worldwide, 24/7 low-voltage motor health monitoring. Whether monitoring new engines or flexibly upgrading your installed base, SIDRIVE IQ Fleet improves reliability, availability,

efficiency, performance and productivity of low voltage motors

Performance Insight

Performance Insights – Visualize Productivity

Performance Insight is a flexible tool to calculate and visualize machine health. Create dashboards and reports with just a few clicks and benefit from maximum transparency of your machines and facilities.

Get the most valuable information for accurate decision making that optimizes machine availability and performance

Are you a machine builder or machine operator working in the field of industrial automation? Do you want to improve your productivity and service? Are you interested in developing new business models? Performance Insight helps you achieve these goals by quickly and compactly summarizing your machines’ key performance indicators. The app’s multiple visualization options present machine states, key performance indicators and plant parameters in the best way for the user.