Import data
Bring in measurements, time series, and operating data from specialist systems, files, databases, and interfaces.
factory Data Visualization · Time Series & Situational Pictures
Data Visualization for
Technical Bulk Data
From a flood of data to a manageable situational picture: the factory Data Visualization Portal makes technical bulk data from meters, sensors, assets, error messages, tickets, inspection processes, and specialist systems understandable. Load profiles, time series, heatmaps, and 3D profiles turn into interactive decision visuals for operations, energy management, and the management cockpit.
Measurements become understandable, comparable, and manageable in their object, time, and process context.
Link objects
Connect data with meters, assets, sites, customers, buildings, and responsible parties.
Recognize patterns
Make load peaks, weekly rhythms, consumption patterns, outliers, and changes over time visible.
Technical bulk data delivers its value as clear patterns, profiles, and situational pictures.
Systems today deliver an enormous number of individual values. Visualizations complement tables with the specialist context, show patterns directly, and make developments intuitively understandable.
The Data Visualization Portal translates measurements into understandable situational pictures: temporal, spatial, object-based, and management-ready.
Example: An interval electricity meter produces 96 measurements per day at 15-minute resolution.
Over three months, this adds up to around 8,760 data points per meter. As a 3D load profile, these become
recognizable daily profiles, consumption patterns, and peak loads.
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From individual value to time profile
Measurement points are consolidated into daily, weekly, and monthly trends.
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From chart to situational picture
Visualizations show patterns, threshold values, events, outliers, and priorities.
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From data stream to management
WatchDog alerts, tasks, and management KPIs make data operationally usable.
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From meter to object context
Measurements are connected to a site, customer, asset, contract, building, or facility.
Interval meter · Load profile data · 15-minute resolution
A single meter already delivers 8,760 data points in three months.
An interval meter (RLM) records a customer's load profile at fixed intervals. At a 15-minute resolution, this produces four measurements per hour, 96 measurements per day, and around 8,760 data points in three months.
Several notable consumption peaks are clearly visible in the image. These load peaks provide concrete starting points for specialist analysis and root-cause clarification.
The flood of data is visualized so that 24-hour trends across multiple days become visible. This makes it possible to quickly compare consumption patterns by day, by weekday, and on weekends.
Particularly with interval meters, load-profile data, and 15-minute values, 3D load-profile visualization makes large data volumes understandable: patterns, outliers, peak loads, and recurring consumption profiles become recognizable at a glance.
The image serves as an example. factory visualizes your data so that it produces reliable specialist insights for energy analysis, operations, controlling, and the management cockpit.
Visualization · Analysis · Decision Visual
The right representation makes the specialist question visible.
The portal presents technical data to match the specialist question: daily profile, heatmap, 3D load profile, management tile, map view, trend line, or deviation chart.
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Time seriesLoad profiles & measurement trends
The classic trend over time remains the basis for detailed analysis, plausibility checks, and drill-down.
- Electricity, gas, water, sensor, and process values
- Minimums, maximums, averages, and peaks
- Comparing periods, objects, and reference values
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HeatmapConsumption patterns by time of day
Heatmaps show intensities, repetitions, and time windows especially fast.
- Daily, weekly, and monthly patterns
- Operating hours, weekends, and shift models
- Notable periods and recurring load peaks
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3D model24-hour slices
Every day is displayed as a 24-hour slice. Several days together produce a spatial consumption object.
- Load-profile trends across days and weeks
- Plateau formation, outliers, and load peaks
- Changes over time are immediately recognizable
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CockpitKPIs & situational pictures
Technical detail data is consolidated into management-relevant information for departments and leadership.
- Top consumers, trends, and status tiles
- Drill-down from the overall picture down to the individual value
- Priorities for operations, controlling, and management
Portal Logic · From Source to Control
Data is imported, historized, visualized, and monitored.
The factory Data Visualization Portal combines data import, object-based data management, visualization logic, history, WatchDog functions, and a management cockpit into one end-to-end solution.
Import: CSV, Excel, database, API
Objects: customer, site, asset, meter
History: measurements and data states
Visualization: time series, heatmap, 3D
WatchDog: threshold values and anomalies
Cockpit: KPIs and situational pictures
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WatchDog alert
Load peak detected outside the usual operating window.
Object: interval meter North-A4311 · Event: Jun 26, 2026, 4:30 PM
Visualization process
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Connect a data source
Meter, sensor, specialist system, file, or interface.
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Check data plausibility
Check faulty values, timestamps, outliers, and formats.
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Establish the object reference
Connect measurements with a site, meter, asset, or facility.
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Generate the visualization
Provide the right charts, heatmaps, 3D profiles, and dashboards.
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Trigger management action
Generate alerts, tasks, reports, and management views.
Raw data becomes a manageable situational picture.
Integration · Data Management · Operations
Visualization as a building block of the factory product family.
The solution uses factory's logic of historized, linked object and data management. This lets visualizations be connected with documents, tasks, workflows, responsible parties, deadlines, projects, assets, and management cockpits.
⇄Data import & interfaces
Flexible ingestion from systems
Measurement data can be taken over from existing sources and placed into defined object structures.
- CSV, Excel, database exports, and API data
- Integration of specialist systems, ERP, GIS, asset management, and IoT platforms
- regular data ingestion with plausibility checks
- historized storage of imported data states
◎Object logic & context
Data in its specialist context
Measurements are not viewed in isolation; they are connected to the relevant business objects.
- Customer → site → building → asset → meter
- Attributes, responsible parties, contracts, documents, and deadlines
- Comparison of objects, groups, periods, and sites
- Drill-down from the management view down to the individual value
⚑WatchDog & Push
Actively monitor anomalies
Defined events can be detected automatically and moved into operational processing.
- Threshold values, limits, missing data, and load peaks
- Alerts, follow-ups, review tasks, and escalations
- active situational pictures for operations, departments, and management
- Push notifications for relevant events
☁SaaS & on-premises
Ready to operate quickly
Based on existing modules, visualization solutions can be configured and extended quickly.
- SaaS delivery for fast go-live
- On-premises option depending on IT and operating requirements
- KRITIS-oriented architecture and security requirements
- Extensions possible during live operation
Use Cases · Visualizations · Benefits
Data visualization for technical bulk data and decision questions.
The visualization logic is suited beyond energy data for time series, condition data, error messages, maintenance data, inspection processes, site data, and technical bulk data that need to be understood in an object context.
| Use case | Typical data | Suitable visualization | Specialist benefit |
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| Interval-meter load profile | 15-minute values, consumption, power, peaks | 3D daily profiles, time series, heatmaps | Recognizing consumption patterns, load peaks, and operating hours |
| Energy management | Electricity, gas, water, heat, cost, CO₂ | Dashboards, trends, deviation charts | Managing consumption and cost across sites and periods |
| Asset management | Asset values, conditions, inspections, operating data | Object dashboards, status tiles, time series | Making asset conditions and action needs transparent |
| Facility management | Buildings, rooms, assets, meters, inspection obligations | Map/object view, heatmap, WatchDog | Monitoring sites and technical objects in context |
| Management cockpit | KPIs, trends, deviations, priorities | Status tiles, situational pictures, drill-down | Consolidating technical detail data into decision-relevant visuals |
| Incident management | Error messages, incident reports, tickets, alarms, status codes | Heatmaps, root-cause clusters, time series, priority lists | Recognizing clusters, repeat faults, processing times, and action needs |
| Field service | Deployment sites, service orders, technicians, assets, open cases | Map view, radius search, status tiles, routing and priority logic | Better bundling of on-site appointments, service jobs, and regional tasks |
| Inspection processes | Inspection obligations, inspection results, defects, deadlines, records | Deadline cockpit, object dashboard, traffic-light status, WatchDog | Making inspection status, defect hotspots, and record needs transparent |
Technical Specialist Processes · Bulk Data · Situational Pictures
Data visualization for technical specialist processes
The factory Data Visualization Portal is suited for technical specialist processes where large volumes of measurements, condition data, error messages, inspection reports, maintenance data, tickets, or site information arise. This data becomes time series, heatmaps, map views, 3D visualizations, dashboards, and manageable situational pictures.
Network operations
Visualize network loads, faults, switching states, pressure values, flow rates, temperature trends, and regional anomalies.
Asset management
Evaluate asset conditions, condition scores, inspection cycles, service life, maintenance costs, and technical asset substance.
Maintenance
Show maintenance orders, downtimes, repeat faults, open actions, and priorities by asset, site, or object class.
Incident management
Analyze error messages, incident reports, tickets, alarms, status codes, root-cause clusters, and processing times.
Control-center processes
Manage events, alarms, shift handovers, operating states, escalations, and action status as a technical situational picture.
Asset monitoring
Monitor sensor values, temperature, pressure, fill level, vibration, runtime, switching cycles, and threshold values over time.
Inspection
Visualize inspection obligations, inspection results, defects, re-inspections, deadlines, inspection documents, and technical records.
Facility management
Manage building conditions, asset status, room climate, elevator faults, fire doors, heating systems, and operator obligations.
Production
Make machine states, downtimes, production volumes, scrap, cycle times, quality values, and line utilization visible.
Quality management
Evaluate inspection values, defect types, complaints, deviations, root causes, corrective actions, and quality KPIs.
Technical record management
Bring together inspection reports, maintenance records, approvals, document status, validity periods, security levels, and deadlines.
Field service
Visualize deployment sites, service orders, technicians, assets, faults, priorities, and open clarification points on a map basis.
Visualization within the factory product family
Visualization can be connected with further factory modules: from asset management and facility management through the workflow engine and Project Control Center to CRM, document management, and the management cockpit.
FAQ · Data Visualization
Frequently asked questions about the Data Visualization Portal
Short answers for departments, operations, energy management, asset management, and leadership.
What does the Data Visualization Portal do?
It imports technical bulk data, historizes it, links it to objects, and presents it as interactive charts, heatmaps, 3D models, dashboards, and management situational pictures.
Why is the interval-meter example so meaningful?
A single interval meter already delivers 96 values per day at 15-minute resolution. Across several months, several meters, or several sites, this produces data volumes whose patterns become especially quickly recognizable visually.
What does 3D visualization as a 24-hour slice mean?
Every day is displayed as its own profile over 24 hours. When these daily profiles are laid out one after another, a spatial consumption object emerges. This makes load peaks, operating hours, weekly rhythms, and outliers very easy to recognize.
Which data sources can be connected?
Typical sources are CSV, Excel, database exports, REST APIs, specialist systems, SCADA systems, ERP systems, GIS systems, asset management systems, IoT platforms, as well as meter and sensor data sources.
Can the portal also trigger tasks or alerts?
Yes. WatchDog functions can monitor threshold values, missing measurements, notable load peaks, or defined events. This can generate alerts, review tasks, follow-ups, or push notifications.
Which technical specialist processes can be visualized?
Suitable processes include network operations, asset management, maintenance, incident management, control-center processes, asset monitoring, inspection processes, facility management, production, quality management, technical record management, and field service.
Can the portal evaluate error messages, incident reports, and maintenance data?
Yes. Error messages, incident reports, tickets, alarms, maintenance orders, and service reports can be imported, structured, linked by object and site, and visualized as heatmaps, time series, root-cause clusters, priority lists, or management situational pictures.
Is the solution also suited for sales or customer care?
Energy data management (see above) is one example.
The logic is equally suited to many technical processes, for example:
Network operations, asset management, maintenance, incident management, control-center processes, asset monitoring, inspection processes, facility management, production, quality management, technical record management, and field service. Wherever measurements, condition data, error messages, inspection reports, maintenance data, or site information arise, visualizations can make patterns, clusters, deviations, priorities, and action needs visible.
Sales & customer care: A map section shows a planned customer visit and visualizes associated prospects within a defined radius. This makes additional sales contacts, clarification appointments, and on-site visits easier to plan.
Data visualization for your specific use case
We configure data import, object structure, visualizations, WatchDog logic, and the management cockpit to match your existing data sources. Let's talk about your measurement data, meters, assets, sites, and evaluation questions.
