For many companies, monitoring electric power consumption and the consumption of other commodities is a burning need. Using Power BI (included in Microsoft Office 365), we have prepared demo dashboards for you that will give you an idea of how to analyse consumption retrospectively as well as almost in real time. The demo can also help you understand how to analyse your own data.

The staff at Kiekert have implemented pre-prepared reports fast and have learnt to create new ones by themselves. Read on to find out how we collect data from Kiekert's S7-1500 PLCs and, using Power BI, provide it for the company's maintenance and management so that they can make better decisions.

In this article, we have put together a great deal of information on digital transformation projects and machine data collection. In one place, you can thus learn why gather data and digitalise your plant, what human and financial resources you may need, and what technological tools you may find useful at the beginning. And we would like you to understand that we are here to help you.