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Many industrial companies face their digital transformation. In addition to an existing portfolio of products and services, new digital services are being developed to offer a portfolio of smart product service systems (Smart PSS). While the development of new digital services is rarely a problem for the companies, the organization of sales and distribution of Smart PSS in particular is a key issue. The sales of Smart PSS differs considerably from the sales of only products or services and must therefore be designed differently in order to meet customer requirements and successfully commercialize the developed Smart PSS. This paper therefore describes how the sales organization of Smart PSS should be designed successfully in various forms. The network thinking methodology is used in combination with a case study research approach to describe the connection between the offered portfolio, the customer requirements and the different elements of a sales organization. Furthermore, four different types of a sales organization for Smart PSS are described. This paper gives a recommendation for companies on a design of their sales organizations on which practical implications may be developed.
Smart Service Engineering
(2019)
In our digitalized economy, many traditional service engineering models lack flexibility, efficiency and adaptability. As today’s market differs significantly from the market of the late 20th century, service engineering models must meet different requirements today than they had to meet in the past. The present paper starts off by providing an overview of the requirements that modern service engineering models need to fulfill in order to succeed in today’s economic environment. Afterwards, three promising models that meet several of these requirements will be introduced.
Damit Unternehmen die Potenziale von Smart Services nutzen können, müssen intelligente Objekte, technische Infrastruktur und Geschäftsmodelle kombiniert werden. Smart Services sind datenbasiert und erfordern daher eine integrierte Berücksichtigung von Hard- und Software. Sie stellen die höchste Ausbaustufe digitaler, datenbasierter Geschäftsmodelle dar. Für die erfolgreiche Entwicklung von Smart Services bedarf es daher anderer Ansätze als bei der klassischen industriellen Dienstleistungsentwicklung. In einem breit angelegten Benchmarking konnte diese Erkenntnis bestätigt werden. Als Kernergebnis wurden fünf Prinzipien für die erfolgreiche Entwicklung von Smart Services abgeleitet.
Die digitale Vernetzung ist von großer Bedeutung für das Servicegeschäft im Maschinen- und Anlagenbau. Durch neue Möglichkeiten der wirtschaftlichen Datenerfassung, -speicherung und –verarbeitung können auf die Kundenbedürfnisse ausgerichtete Smart Services entwickelt werden. Diese Smart Services stellen die höchste Form datenbasierter Geschäftsmodelle dar. Unternehmen müssen diese Potenziale erkennen und relevante Handlungsfelder im Unternehmen weiterentwickeln, um erfolgreich in der Smart-Service-Welt zu agieren.
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.
Ziel des Forschungsvorhabens CSS 2.0 war es, kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) dabei zu unterstützen, die Effizienz und Effektivität ihres Kundenservices durch den Einsatz von Social Media zu verbessern. Hierfür wurde ein Self-Assessment-Tool zur Bewertung und Prognose des Nutzenbeitrags des Social-Media-Einsatzes im Kundenservice entwickelt. Der Fokus des Forschungsvorhabens lag auf der Betrachtung des externen Social-Media-Einsatzes an der Schnittstelle zwischen Unternehmen und Kunden.
Durch den Einsatz additiver Fertigungsverfahren werden Wertschöpfungsketten zu Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken in denen produzierende Unternehmen, industrielle Dienstleister sowie Softwareanbieter auf digitalen Plattformen kooperieren. Die Arbeitsteilung zwischen Produzenten, Zulieferern und Dienstleistern sowie die zugrundeliegenden Geschäftsmodelle unterliegen einem radikalen Wandel. Dabei müssen die Veränderungen vor allem als Potenzial für neue Geschäftsmodelle genutzt werden. An dieser Stelle setzt das Forschungsvorhaben 'Add2Log' an.