The Siemens Cloud for Industry is an open cloud platform for analyzing large volumes of data in industry. This forms the basis for data-based services from Siemens or third-party providers, for example in the areas of predictive maintenance, energy data management or resource optimization. The new Connector Box enables the simple and secure collection and transfer of machine and plant data to the Siemens Cloud for Industry. More information on the Siemens Cloud is also available at the Big Data Analytics Summit accompanying the trade fair.