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Through data-based insights into customer behavior, products and service offers can be improved. For manufacturing companies, smart product-service systems (SPSS) offer the possibility to collect customer data during the usage phase of the product. As the focus on customer analytics is too often on sales and marketing, SPSS are overlooked as a source of customer data. However, manufacturing companies need to integrate data from all interactions with their customers along the complete customer journey to achieve a holistic data-based view of the customers. To identify these interactions and the customer data derived from them, the concept of a digital shadow will be applied to the customer journey. The projected results for the presented work in progress are a reference process model for the customer journey in manufacturing and a data model of the customer data created along this process.
Subscription business models provide an important component for monetizing the potential of Industrie 4.0. Subscription business is based on a long-term and participative business relationship between customer and provider. However, only digitalization offers the necessary framework conditions to realize the characteristic recurring and performance-based billing, and to ensure the necessary transparency about the usage phase of products as well as continuous performance improvements in the customer process. Against this background, companies must not only recognize the much-cited potential that lies in the total dedication to the success of individual subscription customers. Rather, the central obstacles must be addressed, examined, and subsequently overcome in a targeted manner in order to successfully establish subscription business models and place them on the market.
Subscription-Geschäftsmodelle (SGM) spielen eine wesentliche Rolle bei der Monetarisierung von Industrie 4.0 Potenzialen für produzierende Unternehmen. Durch die Vernetzung von Maschinen und digitalen Produkten können dem Kunden völlig neue Leistungen geboten werden, die durch ein rein transaktionsbasiertes Geschäftsmodell nicht möglich wären. Der folgende Beitrag widmet sich der Charakterisierung von Subscription-Geschäftsmodellen und zeigt vier Handlungsfelder auf, die bei ihrer Umsetzung berücksichtigt werden müssen.
Industrial manufacturers faced and mastered several economic challenges and disruptive changes in the past. In particular, changes to business models emerge very slowly, whereas crises such as the banking crisis or covid-19 outbreak lead to significant short-term effects and are difficult to manage.
Over the past year, the world experienced an unprecedented form of disruption due to the global covid-19 pandemic. Compared to former economic crises, the implications of social distancing, lockdowns, and supply chain shortages triggered a rapid economic and societal disruption at a global scale, which impacted all sectors and levels of society.
For a holistic understanding of the impact of the current and former crises on industrial manufacturers, the Institute for Industrial Management at RWTH Aachen and BearingPoint conducted a survey as well as expert interviews to investigate the scope and type of affects for industrial manufacturers with a strong focus on service business. Based on this a framework to successfully address these new challenges and – also – opportunities was developed.
Agilität gilt als zentrale unternehmerische Fähigkeit, um Veränderungen proaktiv zu erkennen und diese schnell und effektiv zu vollziehen. Industrie 4.0 bietet Unternehmen das Potenzial dies zu beherrschen und schnell auf Ereignisse zu reagieren. Die Vision ist ein agiles, lernendes Unternehmen, welches in der Lage ist, sich einer wandelnden Umwelt kontinuierlich anzupassen. Dies bedeutet für Unternehmen die Nutzung von Optimierungspotentialen durch eine durchgängige, intelligente Vernetzung von Menschen, Maschinen und Objekten. Dabei wächst die Bedeutung der Instandhaltung, indem sie die Funktionsfähigkeit immer stärker vernetzter und technisch komplexer werdenden Anlagen sicherstellt. Die technologischen Elemente von Industrie 4.0 kombiniert mit einer zukunftsfähigen Instandhaltung befähigen den Wandel zu einem agilen, lernenden Unternehmen.
Die Umsetzung der Potenziale, die mit Industrie 4.0 einhergehen, werden von den Unternehmen erkannt und nehmen vielfach ein strategisches Zukunftsfeld ein. Allerdings erreicht ein Großteil, der in diesem Kontext definierten technologie-basierten Projekte nicht die gewünschten Resultate. Der Hauptgrund für das Scheitern der Transformationsprojekte besteht in kulturellen Hürden. Die digitale Transformation hat keinesfalls nur eine überwiegend technologische Dimension, sondern vor allem eine kulturelle und soziale Dimension, die über den Erfolg der digital induzierten Veränderung endscheidet.
Vor diesem Hintergrund besteht das Ziel der Dissertationsschrift in der Gestaltung von Reifegraden der Unternehmenskultur für die Entwicklung eines agilen, lernenden Unternehmens und deren Anwendung am Beispiel der Instandhaltung. Dazu werden die technologischen Entwicklungsstufen einer Instandhaltungsorganisation im Kontext von Industrie 4.0 beschrieben. Hierzu wird der Einfluss technischer Entwicklungen auf die Kern- und Supportprozesse einer Instandhaltungsorganisation untersucht. Ergebnis ist eine Beschreibung der Instandhaltung auf vier Entwicklungsstufen bis zur agilen, lernenden Instandhaltungsorganisation. Basierend auf dieser Beschreibung wird die Unternehmenskultur ausgestaltet, die zur Realisierung der technologisch-induzierten Potenziale notwendig ist. Abschließend wird mithilfe geeigneter Instrumente ein Kulturentwicklungsprozess abgeleitet, welcher eine erfolgreiche Entwicklung und das kontinuierliche Management der Unternehmenskultur zur Steigerung der Agilität im Kontext von Industrie 4.0 ermöglicht.
Ein Subscription-Geschäftsmodell – das klingt nach maßgeblichen wirtschaftlichen Vorteilen. Daher stellt sich die Frage: Warum haben bisher noch nicht alle produzierenden Unternehmen diese Art der partizipativen Geschäftsmodelle aufgebaut?
Die Antwort: Der Aufbau und die Umsetzung von Subscription-Geschäftsmodellen gehen einher mit zentralen Herausforderungen, die Unternehmen im Zuge einer Geschäftsmodelltransformation bewältigen müssen. Hierbei hilft dieses Expert-Paper.
A subscription business model - that sounds like significant economic advantages. Therefore, the question arises: Why haven't all manufacturing companies established this type of participative business model yet?
The answer: The development and implementation of subscription business models go hand in hand with central challenges that companies have to overcome in the course of a business model transformation. This expert paper helps with this.
Manufacturing companies are constantly increasing their efforts in the subscription business, also known as product-as-a-service business, offering usage and outcome based solutions (value-in-use) instead of transactional services and products (value-in-exchange). Customers are becoming contractual subscribers of the solution in return for recurring, performance-related payments. To address arising, inevitable challenges like (1) reducing customer churn, (2) increasing usage intensity and outcome quality, (3) ensuring the adoption of product and software releases as well as (4) fostering customer loyalty, leading manufacturing companies are setting up a new organizational, customer-facing unit, called Customer Success Management (CSM). This unit has its origins in the software-as-a-service business, operating next to established entities like sales, key account management and customer service. Since there are currently no holistic models for an end-to-end description of CSM-tasks in the manufacturing industry, this paper contributes to a taskoriented reference model, using a grounded theory approach, examining both manufacturing and software companies. Containing a reference framework with 8 main tasks, 17 basic tasks and 76 elementary tasks, the reference model supports manufacturing companies in adapting and customizing a company-specific CSM concept.
Electricity generated by wind turbines (WT) is a pillar of the transition to renewable energy [1]. In order to economically utilize WTs, operating and maintenance costs, which account for 25% of total electricity generation costs in onshore WTs, are a focus of cost reduction activities [2]. A prescriptive maintenance approach can support in achieving this goal. Prescriptive maintenance is a maintenance approach, where asset condition data is collected and analyzed to recommend specific actions to prevent breakdowns and reduce downtimes. However, the processing and analysis of data is quite complex. Especially unstructured data (such as comments of service technicians in free text fields) is often left unused, as companies, mostly SMEs lack the capacity to carry out these analyses. In this work we propose an approach to utilize the information from service reports, maintenance reports as well as status records from SCADA systems for the development of a prescriptive maintenance approach to onshore WTs. To achieve this, an ontology was utilized in this approach to codify implicit knowledge of service technicians and aid in making unstructured data usable for further analysis. The ontology was used to link historical service and maintenance reports with status codes, thus enabling automated analysis. In interviews with WT topic experts and through further research, damage mechanisms and corresponding maintenance measures were identified and a measure catalogue was developed to support service and maintenance activities. The recognition of the root cause of problems allows for a prescriptive maintenance approach that recommends targeted actions to reduce downtimes and optimize maintenance activities, it also allows to effectively control the outcome of maintenance activities and optimize their execution.
Pricing for Smart-Product-Service-Systems in Subscription Business Models for Production Industries
(2021)
In the production industry, subscription business models have the potential to create long-term relationships where a supplier provides a continuous value-oriented service to a customer based on digitalisation. Monetising this increase in value through pricing represents a central challenge for suppliers in subscription business. Unlike the current dominant transactional business, the focus of pricing is on the value-in-use of the customer (e.g. on the increase in output for the customer). In this regard, there is so far no pricing approach for practice that allows the linking of the performance data of the customer with the periodically charged price. However, in subscription businesses, such an approach is required to create win-win situations for the customer and supplier through continuous performance improvement. Therefore, this paper develops a novel process model for pricing of smart-product-service-systems in subscription business for production industries. This process can serve as basis for suppliers of subscriptions in the production industry to align pricing with the created value-in-use. In the long term, this allows companies to systematically develop their pricing to monetise the potential of digitalisation.