Industry 4.0. Signals from different machines, manufacturers, interfaces and a mix of machine and assembly cells required visualization and a uniform monitoring solution in order to be able to uncover savings [...] Electrical engineering specialist Pfannenberg has developed the plug & play solution IRES Shopfloor Analytics, which enables plant/machine operators and shopfloor managers to achieve full transparency of their [...] remote monitoring as well as the analysis and optimization of all machine and production processes - fast, easy and safe. Thus, machine and manual workstations of different manufacturers can be interlinked