MindSphere Digitalize and Transform Solution brief

Siemens

Build powerful, targeted copies. This connection facilitates an Challenges open exchange of information that • Improve machine performance IoT applications with a gives you advantages throughout the packaged solution lifecycle – from product design, produc- • Offer new services to customers tion planning and engineering to Many manufacturers are seeking to • Reduce complexity of building IoT commissioning, operation, servicing build powerful of Things (IoT) applications from scratch and the modernization of systems and applications that will enable them to plants. Using MindSphere also makes it improve machine performance and Solutions easy to develop, test and operate offer new services to their customers. • Use MindSphere to connect sophisticated, targeted IoT applications – However, they’re often hindered by machines, products, plants and both for internal use and selling to inefficient data exchange between systems customers. assets in the field and automation/ • Permanently connect physical design systems, long prototyping and To help manufacturers streamline the assets to their digital copies development cycles, and the complexity adoption of MindSphere, Siemens has of building IoT applications from built a collection of packaged solutions • Develop, test and operate scratch. Closing these gaps is key to for customers in different phases of sophisticated IoT apps fully realizing the value of digitalization their digitalization journey. The and automation. Digitalize and Transform packaged Results solution is primarily designed to help • Strengthen your digitalization The solution: MindSphere manufacturers that are already realizing strategy MindSphere is a -based, open IoT many of the benefits of IoT to take the operating system that enables you to next step in their digital transformation • Build, operate and sell IIoT connect machines, products, plants and journey by building powerful, targeted applications systems. With MindSphere, you can applications. These applications are key • Fully leverage your organization’s complete the closed loop digital twin, to developing new business models and intellectual property permanently connecting the physical products, such as asset-as-a-service assets in your factories to their digital offerings.

Solution focus

Digitalize and Transform Key solutions and capabilities DevOps Plan Includes all the elements needed to develop and operate MindSphere appli- cations to strengthen your digitalization strategy. Features include a broad and deep set of cloud services, an unlimited number of routes, test assets and user management scenarios, developer resources (including documentation Use cases Begin your journey and access to the MindSphere developer Integrated field failure analysis With MindSphere, you can take the community) and managed backing Enable collaboration between machine next step in your IoT journey and fully services. manufacturers and end users to more capitalize on the opportunities that rapidly find the root cause of machine digitalization presents. With rich tools Additional solutions included: failure. This enables you to minimize that make it easy to build, operate • MindAccess IoT Value Plan unplanned downtime and reduce the and sell Industrial • Predictive Learning cost of maintenance. (IIoT) applications and the complete • Visual Flow Creator digital twin, your organization is • Visual Explorer Digital twin production empowered to develop new business • MindConnect Integration Complete the digital twin and feed rich models and products. production and operational data to Key services virtual models of your machines in Application development production. With the digital twin in Based on your requirements, Siemens place, you can optimize machine will support you in developing your design, commission machines more application using MindSphere applica- quickly, reduce changeover times and tion programming interfaces (APIs). operate more smoothly.

Additional services included: Asset as-a-service • Implementation Better meet customer needs and drive • Basic enablement new revenue by offering connected • Success management assets and IoT applications • Configuration to your customers. This approach • Analytics consulting enables you to get more value out of • Data science consulting your organization’s intellectual property.

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