IoT Platform Siemens Insights Hub

Insights Hub, evolved from MindSphere, is a cloud-based, open IoT operating system that enables you to connect machines, products, plants and systems. With Insights Hub, you can complete the closed loop digital twin, permanently connecting the physical assets in your factories to their digital copies. This connection facilitates an open exchange of information that gives you advantages throughout the lifecycle – from product design, production planning and engineering to commissioning, operation, servicing and the modernization of systems and plants. Using Insights Hub also makes it easy to develop, test and operate sophisticated, targeted IoT applications – both for internal use and selling to customers.

As part of the Industrial Operations X portfolio, Insights Hub delivers business value from IoT data, while the combined IoT capabilities of Industrial Operations X enables customers, partners and organizations across the Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem to build industry-specific applications. Industrial Operations X is accelerating the transformation from automated to adaptive production.

Our Industrial Operations X portfolio combines multiple tools to deliver powerful IoT results. It helps you—across all industries—accelerate production processes by making them adaptive, people-centric and holistically integrated. With this new approach to operations and smart manufacturing, you are better equipped to face ever-changing industry demands, business models and workforces.

Every machine and system in your business provides a wealth of data with insights and benefits yet to be fully realized. Using Insights Hub, the industrial IoT as a service solution from Siemens, enables you to transform this data into productive business results. By connecting your machines and physical infrastructure to the digital world, Insights Hub provides powerful industrial applications with advanced analytics and digital services to unleash increased productivity and efficiency across your entire business. It was built as a secure and scalable industrial end-to-end solution for everything from connecting products, plants, systems and machines to unlocking your Internet of Things (IoT) data potential.

Insights Hub offers you:

• Secure, end-to-end solutions for connecting devices, storing data and developing and running applications
• Extensive device, enterprise and database connectivity options to support a variety of IoT-ready assets
• Industrial IoT as a service solution with numerous options for data exchange using Siemens open application programming interfaces (APIs) and native cloud accessibility
• Fast development of robust industrydriven IoT solutions with advanced analytics capabilities
• Combined global scalability of Siemens, the number one automation provider, with the world’s largest cloud providers

Transforming IoT data into meaningful and actionable information for companies is not one size fits all. With open standards and robust APIs, Insights Hub enables developers to build applications that suit a broad range of business requirements, and connect and exchange data with a wide range of products with little effort. The Anything as a Service (XaaS) approach enables Original Equipment Manufactures to increase the business value of the offering. Turn your product into a service by connecting it to Insights Hub. Your customer profits from increased efficiency, as initial investment and material waste decrease.

Explore the industrial IoT cloud-based capabilities of Insights Hub. Leverage data and create intuitive and actionable insights, with flexibility to adapt to your specific processes and systems. Connect physical, web- and enterprise-based systems in one location. Support multiple protocols concurrently, perform flexible data modeling and leverage frictionless system integrations. Optimize physical assets and enhance future products by comparing asset performance data with the digital twins of product and production. Perform advanced analytics from the edge to the cloud with near-real-time data.

Start with out-of-the-box applications and then scale with the ability to incorporate machine learning and AI. Start fast with out-of-the-box remote services, including an on-demand encrypted communication infrastructure. Improve production performance and reduce costs with remote maintenance and asset health monitoring. Execute predictive models using machine learning techniques. Optimize product quality and reduce potential field failures and performance issues. Leverage your data and create highly flexible, customized dashboards. Request alerts and understand metrics from any asset or organization system. Perform advanced analytics with Insights Hub Business Intelligence.

Digitalizing and transforming IoT data into real business results are core drivers of Insights Hub. High-value industry-based applications built on Insights Hub deliver measurable results using digital services. In addition, companies can leverage Insights Hub to close the digital twin loop with product ideation, realization and utilization. By seamlessly integrating operational data throughout the value chain, the digital twins of performance, production and product are connected. This helps not only drive operational efficiency, but also to compare simulation and test results with real-world observations.

Insights Hub connects real things to the digital world and enables high-value industry-based applications and digital services to drive business success. With its capabilities, Insights Hub enables a rich partner ecosystem, including solution partners, application developers and connectivity partners to offer innovative IoT solutions. By seamlessly integrating operational data throughout the value chain, companies will not only drive operational transparency, but also compare simulation and test results with real-world observations to gain a competitive advantage.