{"id":24,"date":"2023-04-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/?p=24"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:56:27","slug":"introducing-dashboard-designer-a-new-intuitive-tool-for-insights-hub-users-to-turn-data-into-actionable-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/2023\/04\/17\/introducing-dashboard-designer-a-new-intuitive-tool-for-insights-hub-users-to-turn-data-into-actionable-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Dashboard Designer: A new intuitive tool for Insights Hub users to turn data into actionable insights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On your organization\u2019s journey to digitalization, Siemens Xcelerator business platform delivers a curated portfolio of IoT-enabled, state-of-the-art hardware and software building blocks that are easy, flexible and open, as well as a powerful ecosystem of partners, and a marketplace. Within Siemens Xcelerator, the industrial Internet of Things enables you to connect equipment, machines and production lines to collect data, analyze and discover insights, and make informed data-driven decisions. Once you harness the power of IoT, you\u2019re presented with a wealth of data that you can leverage to improve your operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But many organizations are still challenged after collecting all this data. First, managing large amounts of raw data can be difficult, then making sense of the data and drawing out insights without the help of knowledgeable experts adds another layer of challenge. And ultimately, organizations lack to ability to leverage this data into actionable insights that add business value and align with your goals and processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siemens Insights Hub, the industrial IoT as a service solution, is introducing Dashboard Designer, an exciting new out-of-the-box solution that brings immediate value to your organization. Taking our customer experience and operations setup into account, we\u2019re offering a tool that delivers enhanced capabilities to make discovering and acting on data more intuitive, even without data, IT or design expertise. This enhancement is another way that we are empowering industries to generate new operational insights that are actionable, meaningful and intelligent, while being flexible enough to adapt to any customer\u2019s specific processes and systems. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is Dashboard Designer?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dashboard Designer<\/strong> is an exciting new dashboarding and visualization app that integrates seamlessly with Insights Hub, enhancing our industry solutions like Remote Service and Energy Management to make them even easier and more accessible. This application is highly customizable and flexible, and leverages dashboard and visualization technology to enhance users\u2019 experience with data and metrics, making it easy to create beautiful and informative dashboards. And while users don\u2019t necessarily need programming knowledge, you\u2019re more than welcome to program the dashboard to create customized visualization panels. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2023\/03\/Dashboard-Designer_006-3-1024x558.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27\" width=\"840\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2023\/03\/Dashboard-Designer_006-3-1024x558.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2023\/03\/Dashboard-Designer_006-3-600x327.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2023\/03\/Dashboard-Designer_006-3-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2023\/03\/Dashboard-Designer_006-3-1536x836.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2023\/03\/Dashboard-Designer_006-3-900x490.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2023\/03\/Dashboard-Designer_006-3.png 1910w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Who can use Dashboard Designer?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With Dashboard Designer, anyone can query, visualize, request alerts, and understand metrics from any asset or area of their organization, and can create personalized visualizations that make sense to them. Here\u2019s how that may look within different environments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Operations, plant and service managers<\/strong> can use Dashboard Designer dashboard and visualizations to make informed decisions and improve operations. By leveraging the data, they can monitor overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and make decisions on machine availability, production performance and product quality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Production and product<\/strong> <strong>engineers<\/strong> can use Dashboard Designer dashboard and visualizations to improve the manufacturing process by establishing <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/mindsphere\/whats-new-in-mindsphere-and-closed-loop-digital-twin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">closed-loop manufacturing \u2013 including Product Twins and Factory Twins<\/a>. This allows them to simulate the manufacturing process to make decisions about their machinery and monitor machine health.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Individual device owners <\/strong>can use Dashboard Designer to determine if a change in usage behavior has impacted their energy consumption as they look to the metrics to identify the most efficient behaviors, so they can save energy and increase the battery life of their device.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dashboard Designer<\/strong> is the newest, most sophisticated dashboarding app to date. In addition to the dashboarding capabilities for users within Operation Insights, it includes maker capabilities, allowing manufacturers to customize visualization by developing their own unique views in alignment with their industry processes, goals and KPIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best part? Dashboard Designer has been created to be easy, flexible and intuitive. Users don\u2019t need any advanced programming skills or capabilities and data results are immediate and easily visualized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/mindsphere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/11\/Dashboard-Designer_005-1024x562.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1961\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What\u2019s next for Insights Hub users?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When you\u2019re ready for more advanced analytics, Business Intelligence Analytics with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dex.siemens.com\/mindsphere\/step-4-book-apps-and-extras\/visual-explorer?viewState=DetailView&amp;cartID=&amp;portalUser=&amp;store=&amp;cclcl=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visual Explorer<\/a> is the bridge between dashboarding and analytics, allowing you to visually analyze and dig even deeper into the data for advanced intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to learn more? <a href=\"https:\/\/siemens.mindsphere.io\/en\/contact\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/siemens.mindsphere.io\/en\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contact an Insights Hub expert<\/a> and unleash the power of the industrial IoT and its possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Insights Hub posts you might be interested in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/mindsphere\/mindsphere-product-update-blog-october-2022\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/mindsphere\/mindsphere-product-update-blog-october-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Insights Hub Product Update Blog October 2022<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/mindsphere\/key-industrial-iot-solutions-empowered-by-mindsphere\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/mindsphere\/key-industrial-iot-solutions-empowered-by-mindsphere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Key industrial IoT solutions empowered by Insights Hub<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/mindsphere\/siemens-best-in-class-cloud-industrial-iot\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/mindsphere\/siemens-best-in-class-cloud-industrial-iot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Siemens  \u201cBest in Class\u201d in Open Digital Platforms for Cloud-centric Industrial IoT<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re offering a tool that delivers enhanced capabilities to make discovering and acting on IIoT data more intuitive, even without data, IT or design expertise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80080,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[332],"industry":[],"product":[331],"coauthors":[329],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-product-updates","tag-industrial-iot","product-insights-hub"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/2023\/03\/focused-worker-in-protective-workwear-at-computer-in-factory_small.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/insights-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}