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Industrial dashboard builder
Describe your plant data. Get a control-room dashboard with alarms, trends and safe controls.
Industrial dashboard builder is a free AI skill for the job "Build and ship software". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
Free · No account · BSD 2 Clause licence · Made by MathWorks · Level: advanced · Thinking: high
Made by MathWorks. See the original on GitHub; we copied it as it is, with its licence.
What it does
A plant-floor dashboard in MATLAB App Designer that an operator can read at a glance, with alarms that stand out, live trends and setpoint changes that need confirmation. It turns a data script into a proper screen. The skill follows industrial screen conventions. The background is grey, so colour is saved for problems. Alarms appear in a banner with clear priority. Writes to the plant need a confirm step, so no one changes a setpoint by a stray click. Figures are built in a light theme so widgets stay readable on a dark desktop. It suits data from OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT and PI. It is not for consumer apps or finding OPC servers.
You give it
- The script or data source (OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT, PI)
- The tags and alarm limits
- Which values operators may change
- The screen layout you have in mind (optional)
You get
- A MATLAB App Designer dashboard
- Alarm banner and indicators
- Live trend plots
- Confirmed setpoint writes
- Grey-field screen styling
Use it when
- You have a script reading plant data and want an operator screen.
- You need alarm banners that rank by priority.
- Operators must change setpoints safely.
- Your current screen uses bright gauges and lamps everywhere.
- You are building overview and detail screens for a process area.
How to use it
- Add it to your AI once: download it and add the folder to Claude, ChatGPT or Codex as a skill.
- Ask for the job in your own words. Your AI opens the skill when it fits.
- It works best when your AI can run MATLAB.