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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.
KVD-Service-Studie 2018
(2018)
Digitalisierung ist eine der zentralen Herausforderungen der heutigen Zeit. Aber die Digitalisierung rein technisch zu betrachten, ohne Augenmerk auf die Unternehmenskultur zu legen, wird dazu führen, dass Unternehmen die Potenziale der Digitalisierung nicht vollständig realisieren können. Wer weiterhin wettbewerbsfähig sein will, muss den Wert der Digitalisierung erkennen und sie für sein Unternehmen nutzbar machen. Aber welche Auswirkungen ergeben sich daraus für die Serviceorganisation? Um den aktuellen Stand der digitalen Kultur im Service zu erfassen, die Dimensionen zu verstehen und einen Weg für Unternehmen aufzuzeigen, liegt der Schwerpunkt der diesjährigen Service-Studie, die vom KVD zusammen mit dem FIR durchgeführt wurde, auf dem Themenkomplex Digitale Service-Kultur.
Monetizing Industry 4.0: Design Principles for Subscription Business in the Manufacturing Industry
(2019)
Subscription business models have a major role for monetizing products and services for manufacturing companies in the age of Industry 4.0. As the manufacturing industry has difficulties generating revenues through digitalization, the implementation of innovative business models are essential to remain successful. Physical assets are often capital-intensive and require a more complex manufacturing process than subscription business models. Moreover, subscription models can focus on the individual customer benefit and a consistent service transformation, constituting a unique selling proposition and a competitive advantage. Hence, the following paper provides a management model that enables manufacturing companies to successfully realize the transformation towards a subscription business model. The management model presents four major fields of action, each matched with one design principle that must be considered when dealing with subscription models in the manufacturing industry. These principles were determined by an in-depth case study analysis among various manufacturing companies. Opportunities, challenges and recommendations for action were then systematically derived and integrated into the management model.
Glück per Abo
(2019)
Was charakterisiert einen Menschen jenseits seines offensichtlichen Verhaltens und seiner äußeren Gestalt? Wohl nichts so sehr wie seine Bedürfnisse und Wünsche. „Am Ende existiert der Mensch nur durch seine Bedürfnisse“, bringt es der Dichter Friedrich Hebbel überspitzt auf den Punkt. Doch wie sehen diese Bedürfnisse aus?
Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) stehen zunehmend vor der Herausforderung, im Wettbewerb immer komplexer und volatiler werdenden Leistungen des After-Sales-Service zu bestehen. Ein Erfolgsfaktor ist die Veränderungsfähigkeit bzw. die stetige Adaption des eigenen Serviceportfolios. Um KMU bei der Identifikation notwendiger Anpassungen ihres Serviceportfolios, bei deren Bündelung, Management und Umsetzung zu unterstützen, wurde das Forschungsprojekt „ReleasePro" gestartet. Im Zuge dieses Vorhabens erfolgt die Entwicklung eines systematischen Service-Release-Managements für KMU.
Smart Service Engineering
(2019)
Industry 4.0 has provided vast opportunities for manufacturing companies whilst simultaneously creating multiple challenges. In this new highly digitized globalized marketplace, manufacturing companies find themselves under pressure to become more service oriented and offer new innovative value offerings such as smart services. These are digital data-driven services that, generally, add value in conjunction with a physical product. However, classical methods of service engineering have not adapted sufficiently to the increasing digital components and requirements of smart services. This paper presents Smart Service Engineering as a novel service-engineering approach for industrial smart services. Smart Service Engineering draws from iterative development models and implements agile and customer-centric methods to decrease the overall development time and achieve an early market success. The paper focuses on the service development steps and presents the interaction and interconnection of different elements of smart services based on a case study research. Finally the paper illustrates the successful application of the Smart Service Engineering approach and its impact on a German medium-sized company in the textile machine industry.
Digitally connected industrial production promises faster and more efficient processes - in development and production, services, marketing & sales and for adapting entire business models. Agility and the ability to make changes in real time are strategic chracteristics of successful companies in Industrie 4.0. To acquire these features, it is necessary to create a continuously expanding data base. However, a company's organisational structure and culture also play an important part in determining whether this data's potential is leveraged effectively.
This acatech STUDY describes a new tool for helping manufacturing enterprises to forge their own individual path towards becoming a learning, agile company. The acatech Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index is a six-stage maturity model that analyses the capabilities in the area of resources, information systems, culture and organisational structure that are required by companies operating in a digitalised industrial environment. The attainment of each development stage promises concrete additional benefits for manufacturing companies. The model's practical application was validated in a medium-sized company.
Die digital vernetzte industrielle Produktion verspricht schnellere und effizientere Prozesse - in Entwicklung und Produktion wie auch in Service, Marketing und Vertrieb oder bei Anpassung ganzer Geschäftsmodelle. Agil zu handeln und in Echtzeit Veränderungen vorzunehmen, wird in der Industrie 4.0 zur strategischen Erfolgseigenschaft eines Unternehmens. Voraussetzung dafür ist der Aufbau einer immer breiteren Datenbasis. Ob deren Potenzial effektiv genutzt wird, hängt jedoch auch wesentlich von der Organisationsstruktur und Kultur eines Unternehmens ab.
Die vorliegende acatech STUDIE stellt ein neues Instrument vor, mit dem produzierende Unternehmen den Weg zum lernenden, agilen Unternehmen individuell gestalten können. Der acatech Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index ist als sechsstufiges Reifegradmodell aufgebaut und analysiert die in der digitalisierten Industrie benötigten unternehmerischen Fähigkeiten in den Gestaltungsfeldern Ressourcen, Informationssysteme, Kultur und Organisationsstruktur. Jede erreichte Entwicklungsstufe verspricht produzierenden Unternehmen einen konkreten Zuwachs an Nutzen. Das Modell wurde in der praktischen Anwendung in einem mittelständischen Betrieb validiert.