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Today, maintenance exceeds this definition, it is significantly more.
In many companies, it plays the role of an incubator for development
and drives digital transformation forward. The very essence of
Industrie 4.0 is the optimisation of the flow of information within as
well as outside of a company to accelerate the adjustment of company
organisations in the context of increasing competitive pressure.
Because of the variety of interfaces, information and data that
is available as well as its service character, maintenance lends itself easily as the area of choice for a company to make Industrie 4.0 real. Whilst doing so, the aim is not to equip employees with the
latest “gimmick“ for order processment or to be the company with
the highest number of lighthouse projects. Instead, maintenance
ensures reliable and cost-efficient production and, consequently,
the primary creation of added value of the manufacturing company.
Those who were identified as top performers during the “Smart
Maintenance“ consortium benchmarking by FIR at RWTH Aachen
University gain particular useful ideas twice as often as other follower companies directly from staff, thus releasing the right potential.
Information and data help to reach these goals and transfer the
vision of smart maintenance into actual pratice. But what is smart
maintenance exactly and how far along are you in the development
of your individual smart maintenance concept?
Unternehmen, die ihre Prozesse durch maschinelles Lernen unterstützen wollen und hierfür auf externe Dienstleister und Produkte zurückgreifen müssen, fehlen die qualifizierten Anhaltspunkte für die Auswahl eines Machine-Learning-Anbieters.
Aus dieser Motivation heraus ist die vorliegende Marktstudie Industrial Machine Learning entstanden. Sie bietet Unternehmen die Grundlage, eine fundierte Entscheidung für oder gegen den Einsatz von Machine Learning im Unternehmen zu
treffen.
Die Darstellung von realen Usecases in der vorliegenden Marktstudie veranschaulicht die konkrete Anwendbarkeit. Insbesondere damit leistet die Studie ihren Beitrag, das Thema Maschine Learning verständlich und anschaulich darzustellen.
Die Marktstudie bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über unterschiedliche Arten von Anbietern und Lösungsmöglichkeiten.
Ein Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit wird dabei nicht erhoben und wäre für die Zielsetzung nicht angebracht.
Smart-Service-Plattformen
(2019)
Smart-Service-Plattformen können einen Lösungsbaustein darstellen, um die steigende Weltbevölkerung ressourcenschonend zu ernähren. Durch die Aggregation von Daten und kontextsensitive datenbasierte Dienstleistungen können Landwirte präzise während der gesamten landwirtschaftlichen Produktion unterstützt werden, um bei gleichbleibender Versorgungsfläche den steigenden Nahrungsmittelbedarf zu decken. Die Entwicklung und der erfolgreiche Betrieb einer Smart-Service-Plattform stellen viele Unternehmen, nicht nur in der Landwirtschaft, jedoch vor große Herausforderungen, da sich die Geschäftsmodelle und -logiken einer Plattform grundlegend von herkömmlichen Produkten unterscheiden. Um Unternehmen praxisnahe Gestaltungsempfehlungen für den Erfolg einer Smart-Service-Plattforum zu geben, wurden für diesen Beitrag insgesamt 25 bereits bestehende Plattformen aus den Bereichen Smart Farming und Smart Production sowie branchenübergreifende Plattformen mittels einer Case-Study-Research hinsichtlich ihres Geschäftsmodells und ihrer jeweiligen Erfolgskriterien untersucht. Basierend auf den Ergebnissen der unterschiedlichen Case-Studys werden insgesamt neun Gestaltungsempfehlungen für den erfolgreichen Betrieb einer Smart-Service-Plattform vorgestellt, die jeweils auf die Besonderheiten der Branche eingehen und so ein umfassendes Bild für den Erfolg einer Smart-Service-Plattform geben. [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-59517-6_29]
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.
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.
In order to achieve a holistic cost management approach, the maintenance and service costs should already be assessed during the development of machines and equipment. The required information in the company, like PLM, process and test data, are commonly not available or vague, especially in early development phases. This paper introduces a feasible method for an early assessment of maintenance and service costs during product development. In doing so, appropriate cost assessment methods are selected, based on the availability and quality of the existing information in the individual development phases. The evaluations of these methods are aggregated in a software tool, so that the respective cost information is displayed with a maximum, minimum and most probable value. The developed software tool was validated in cooperation with a new electric vehicle manufacturer.
Traditional manufacturing companies increasingly launch data-driven services (DDS) to enhance their digital service portfolio. Nonetheless, data-driven services fail more often than traditional industrial services or products within the first year on the market. In terms of market launch, their digital characteristics differ from traditional industrial services and thus need specific structures and actions, which companies currently lack. Therefore, a process guideline for a six-month market launch phase of DDS is developed. The guideline relies on analogies from product, service and software launches based on the latest literature from service marketing and successful practices from various industries. Finally, the guideline is evaluated within five industrial case studies. Thus, the guideline provides scientific research insights regarding the market launch process of DDS and adds to the research of service marketing. It provides practical guidance for manufacturing companies by serving as a reference process for the market launch and offering a collection of successful practices within this area. [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-00713-3_14]
Data-driven services play an important role in
innovative business models of successful manufacturing
companies: They hold great potential for the creation of unique
selling points and improve the differentiation of manufacturing
companies in highly competitive markets. However, the large
number of newly invented digital services that fail shortly after
launching implies that companies struggle with the invention and
implementation of data-driven service solutions, which ends in a
waste of resources. The following paper introduces guideline
principles for successful innovation processes for data-driven
services. The principles were identified during in-depth case
studies with manufacturing companies. They contribute to a
necessary paradigm change for manufacturing companies in
terms of data-driven services for machines. The six identified
principles emphasize new aspects regarding the new dimension of
data-driven solutions and improve the life cycle management of
products and services. They demonstrate how the rules of agile
development can lead to successful and more efficient service
innovations in the industrial sector.
The additive manufacturing technique of "Selective Laser Melting" (SLM) provides the basis for a fundamental paradigm shift in industrial spare part manufacturing, affecting both technological and organizational company prac-tices. To harness the full potential of SLM-technology, considering agility and customizability, decentralized additive production networks need to be estab-lished. According to the principles just in time, just in place and just enough, a global online platform, which efficiently distributes construction orders to local manufacturing hubs could empower the market participants to utilize production capacities at optimal costs and minimal efforts. This work evaluates and selects key factors and creates scenarios for the development of platform-based networks for additive, SLM-based, spare part production. For this purpose, the selected key factors (e. g. material expenses, quality and process management and platform-based business models) are projected into the future, forming the three major scenarios "New distribution of roles in the SLM value chain", "SLM-technology for high wage countries" and "Individualization instead of mass production". These scenarios not only allow estimating the potential of an online network for additive spare part production, but also enable market participants to react pur-posively and agilely to unexpected market developments, and to foster the suc-cess of a platform-based additive spare part production.
Method for a qualitative cost benefit evaluation of process standardisation for industrial services
(2018)
Industrial service providers deliver complex technical services (e.g. inspection, maintenance, repair, improvement, installation and turnarounds) for a wide range of technical assets in process industries such as the chemical industry. Due to the versatility of assets and industries, there is also a variety of the corresponding service offerings. The demand for a high service quality and the general cost pressure leads to the need of a more efficient and standardized design of the service processes. However, cost-benefit ratio related decisions regarding the questions where and how service processes should be standardized entail great challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises. This is because there is often a lack of understanding of cost savings through process standardization, which is caused by a lack of understanding of the correlations between process characteristics and process target values. Because of this, the goal of this paper is to develop a method for a quantitative evaluation of the cost-benefit ratio of process standardization measures. Within this method, the relevant service performance processes are selected first. Next, the process data will be recorded with the help of questionnaires. These are then analyzed by looking for correlations between the process characteristics and the process target values. Afterwards standardization measures are derived on the basis of these findings in order to improve deficit characteristics and thus target values. Finally, the method´s practical applicability is tested and validated by applying it to an industrial service in the chemical industry.