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Insights Hub

Score9 out of 10

7 Reviews and Ratings

What is Insights Hub?

Insights Hub is a cloud-based IoT operating system that connects products, plants, systems, and machines, to harness data with advanced analytics. Insights Hub also gives users access to a growing number of apps and a dynamic development platform as a service (PaaS).

Short but sweet

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We sell the product and provide professional services across a broad range of industries and use cases.

Pros

  • Easy to get started
  • Good pricing model
  • Ease of use

Cons

  • Better options for upgrades between capability packs without the need to 'over subscribe'

Most Important Features

  • OEE Hub application is very well designed and fits all manufacturers' needs for measuring the efficiency of equipment

Return on Investment

  • Not really applicable as we are a reseller

Alternatives Considered

ThingWorx

Experienced Insights Hub User and Reseller

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Reseller and service provider to a wide range of industries. Many successful implementations with use cases ranging from manufacturing operations data capture for performance monitoring to products as a service for condition monitoring and remote service. The benefits realised have helped businesses reduce costs of production, increase productivity and provide improved services to their customers.

Pros

  • Getting started quickly with out of the box apps
  • Connectivity to OT layer with MindConnect gateways and software
  • OEE application
  • Quality prediction

Cons

  • An overview and drilldown into where attributes are used across the solution, such as in rules, dashboards and apps. This would make it easier to maintain and understand the potential impact of change.
  • Provide more detailed and insightful information when an app has changed so the end user knows what is new or different.
  • Quick and user-friendly app building tools to create user entry forms on dashboards that doesn't require Mendix or VFC.

Most Important Features

  • OEE
  • Quality prediction and custom dashboard creation
  • Connectivity including remote connectivity

Return on Investment

  • Increased productivity in process industries by 10%
  • Created extensive efficiency gains for OEMs providing service to customers saving hundreds of hours of effort every week
  • Removed the cost and burden of technical data created by legacy applications and IT infrastructure

Alternatives Considered

ThingWorx and Litmus

Other Software Used

Grafana, Docker, Salesforce CMS

Insights Hub Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Monitoring of shopfloor data and automated assessment of the current state for proactive actions

Pros

  • Real time monitoring
  • Visualization
  • Apps

Cons

  • Connectivity

Most Important Features

  • real time monitoring
  • visualization
  • machine learning

Return on Investment

  • Failure prevention
  • waste redution

Insights hub for education

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for education and research purposes on IIoT. It is a comprehenisve platftorm that fulfills our requirements.

Pros

  • Onboarding of assets
  • Provides insights about operations
  • Links to several APIs

Cons

  • Update/new feature rollout management
  • Easier interface wtih Mendix

Most Important Features

  • Diverse range of applications
  • Cybersecurity
  • Ease of use by multiple users

Return on Investment

  • Satisfied customerts
  • Increased employability of our learners