Siemens showcases MindSphere: Siemens Cloud for Industry

Siemens (Booth S1647) is showcasing its digital enterprise software suite including MindSphere—Siemens Cloud for Industry. To support continuous improvement, the platform bundles a range of services for manufacturing companies on the path to Industry 4.0.

MindSphere is a platform as a service (PaaS) concept and an open operating system for Internet of Things (IoT), allowing a customized platform for recording and analyzing large volumes of plantwide production data. A customer can integrate with Siemens or third-party providers for a variety of predictive maintenance services, energy data management and resource optimization development applications.

“Now that customers can easily look for other options online if they are dissatisfied with a current supplier, manufacturing companies are feeling the effects of tougher competition,” said Craig Stevens, consulting sales application engineer. “The answers to this challenge are clear: cut throughput times, increase flexibility, enable individual mass production, while optimizing energy and resource consumption patterns. This means companies must perfect their entire value chain from design, production planning, engineering and manufacturing to a full range of after-sale, maintenance and upgrade services.”

MindSphere interlinks physical products and production facilities with digital data, enabling the implementation of innovative solutions plus the ability to bring products onto the market faster and more efficiently. The comprehensive data hosting platform combines device management, connectivity, all necessary data storage and the associated infrastructure, providing virtualized data management that can be deployed quickly.