TURN YOUR OPERATIONAL DATA INTO MEASURABLE PERFORMANCE
ABB Operational Insight enables collaboration between engineers, operators and experts with user centric dashboards and a scientific grade trending tool - available anywhere, anytime.
At the edge, a secure data streaming service provides a reliable data foundation that unifies OT signals and makes high quality operational data available for real-time insight.
With structured, trusted data available in real time, you can visualize performance, benchmark operations, identify emerging trends, and detect anomalies before they impact production.
INFORMED DECISIONS FOR SMARTER OPERATIONS
ABB Operational Insight adapts to your needs with flexible, open architecture. Supporting diverse data flows and scalable deployment, it helps you:
- Improve efficiency
- Detect trends faster
- Streamline workflows
- Reduce maintenance and downtime
- Make data-driven decisions across operations
Your operations generate the data. ABB Operational Insight turns it into performance.
COLLABORATIVE OPERATIONS SERVICES
ABB Ability™ EdgeInsight™ delivers a full-service solution to your operational challenges. It securely extracts and unifies data from field devices and control systems, independent of vendor, providing a complete view across IT and OT. Access real-time visualization and analytics instantly, with expert support to help you turn data into value. Delivered as a flexible, subscription-based service, you get the capabilities you need when you need them.
KEY BENEFITS
<p>Learn how the ABB Ability™ EdgeInsight can support your operations. </p>
Improve data operations
<p>Collects different types of data from multiple sources into one cloud platform for better, faster decision making.</p>Increase data integrity
<p>Enables process facilities to safely give suppliers and vendors the operational data they need to deliver services.</p>Minimize financial risk
<p>Reduces investment commitment through a SaaS subscription model and ensure you get value.</p>HOW IT WORKS
Gain confidence in your operations with data-backed decisions. See how the ABB Operational Insight easily integrates into your current infrastructure and provides the insights you need to optimize performance.
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ABB Ability™ EdgeInsight
ABB Ability™ EdgeInsight captures, contextualizes, and streams operational data from devices, control systems, and gateways across complex industrial environments – ensuring that your organization gets trusted, structured data ready for analysis, visualization, and advanced applications.
EdgeInsight is the backbone of ABB’s Operational Insight concept, providing the data needed for dashboards, advanced trending, and other analytical applications. Whether you are improving efficiency, optimizing maintenance, or exploring new digital use cases, EdgeInsight™ scales with your needs and seamlessly supports your digital evolution. -
ABB Ability™ TrendInsight
ABB Ability™ TrendInsight helps engineers, operators and experts understand what’s happening in their operational processes by making historical data easy to explore. It enables users to compare operating periods, spot bottlenecks, and identify performance issues. With fast, clear visualizations and access to data, TrendInsight supports troubleshooting and continuous improvement across your operations.
TrendInsight enables you to:
- Detect abnormal process behavior earlier
- Benchmark shifts, periods, or sites
- Validate improvement initiatives
- Strengthen collaboration between operators, engineers, and experts
- Build a long‑term knowledge base that supports future advisory and decision capabilities
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ABB Insight Dashboards
ABB Insight Dashboards provide a flexible, modular way to visualize operational performance. Using clean, specific views, Insight Dashboards offer a unified window into the KPIs and trends that matter most for daily operation and long‑term improvement.
The solution includes both templated dashboards for common use cases and the ability to design fully custom layouts through engineering workshops. With modern visualization components and an extensible plugin architecture, Insight Dashboards adapt easily to your industry, sites, and roles.
Insight Dashboards help you to:- Monitor process and asset health at a glance
- Surface KPIs and deviations quickly
- Connect data from multiple operational systems
- Enable cross‑functional alignment through shared views
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
<p>Learn more about ABB Ability™ EdgeInsight with our frequently asked questions.</p>
ABB Ability™ EdgeInsight is an industrial edge data platform that captures and contextualizes data from devices, control systems and gateways. It connects OT and IT environments to deliver trusted data for analysis, visualization and applications.
By processing data at the edge, it provides reliable, real-time visibility and supports integration with enterprise and cloud systems—so you can act faster and improve performance.
Without context, operational data is difficult to use. It lacks the structure needed to understand what is happening across assets, processes and systems.
EdgeInsight adds that context—linking data to equipment, processes and conditions—so teams can identify issues faster, improve analysis and make more effective decisions.
EdgeInsight brings data from multiple systems into a single, consistent source.
With real-time access to structured data, teams can:
- Monitor performance continuously
- Identify deviations early
- Act before issues impact production
This helps operations run more consistently while improving efficiency over time.
Traditional systems focus on data within specific control layers. EdgeInsight connects data across the full operation—from field devices to enterprise systems.
It combines data capture with contextualization, open integration and real-time streaming. This makes data usable beyond control systems, supporting improvement across operations.
EdgeInsight is designed to fit different operational needs. It supports edge, cloud and hybrid deployments—including direct integration with customer cloud environments. This flexibility allows you to scale from a single site to multiple operations, while maintaining control of how and where data is used.
Yes. EdgeInsight integrates with existing systems using a wide range of industrial protocols and connectors.
It can be deployed on a virtual machine without additional hardware, making it a practical way to extend the value of existing infrastructure and improve performance without major disruption.