This month Si2 Partners were at Copperbergs’s Field Service Forum running a panel discussion on how different leaders are coping with the challenge of gaining competitive advantage through technology. We ran this […]
‘The rate of increase of industrial devices being connected to the internet is up 25% per year, but customers don’t really appreciate how the capabilities and benefits of the IoT are relevant […]
There has been a lot of attention given in recent years to the need to automate field service and related logistical processes through the implementation of Enterprise Service Management (ESM) systems. Although […]
Challenges in the After Market Recent SEC filings and press briefs by Fortune 500 heavy equipment and automotive manufacturers indicate some common challenges. Companies like Caterpillar, Terex, John Deere, Walter Surface Technologies […]
Over the past few years rapid technology advancements and related cost reductions have brought robots (in the broad sense of autonomous systems) to the forefront of news on disruptive industrial technologies, together […]
IIoT needs to satisfy several requirements and ICT networks are maybe the most important enabler. They integrate the largely increasing number of assets and and people connected, through ultra broadband and intelligent pipe […]
As businesses begin to embrace the opportunities offered by the IoT, digitilisation and analytics, many are unsure what they are going to do with all that information. Within Service businesses, most of […]
The key to monetising the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data is not to focus on the technology itself, but the impact on customers’ business processes and business model. However, many […]
Before You Start Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) aims to take advantage of remote connectivity, large amounts of data (or Big Data) generated by factories, predictive analytics and expert know-how to develop […]
This excellent piece of research from the Cambridge Service Alliance ‘Future Technologies in Servitisation’ found from a survey of Capital Equipment Manufacturers and academics, that the five most important technologies that will support Servitization […]
In his final & 5th Blog of the series ’23 lessons to World Class Asset management’, Dr Mike Provosts summarises his thoughts on how to achieve World Class Asset Management. Other blogs in the […]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, defines Demand Response (DR) as: ‘Changes in electric usage by end-use customers from their normal consumption patterns in response to changes in the price of electricity over time, or […]
In his 4th Blog of 23 lessons to World Class Asset management, Dr Mike Provosts reviews insights that can only really be learned the hard way; Doing the Job!. In particular ‘cost is […]
In Part 3 of Dr Michael Provost’s blog on ’23 lessons learned the hard way’, Mike shares five key lesson’s that will ensure that analytical techniques are relevant and that the output is communicated to […]
Service in Industry will be presenting at the Service Management Expo, London UK on the 16th June on ‘The secret ingredients on Monetizing the IoT and all that connectivity stuff’. We will […]
‘Peter Carpenter gains inspiration from a broken boiler as he helps an old friend transform a struggling power systems manufacturer into a flourishing power provider’ Dr Michael Provost’s short story provides pragmatic […]
Machine Connectivity, Data and the IoT We have run a number of posts on connectivity, the industrial IoT, analytics and implications for asset management, OEM service strategies etc. and we will continue […]
Sponsored by GE this short E-book provides some useful insights into Integrating Remote Monitoring into an OEM’s business. It’s goal is to help machine builders of all sizes to understand how they […]
As oil prices have slumped, North Sea oil production costs have risen and production efficiency has continued a steady decline -to levels where projects have had to be shelved and activity postponed, […]
Metso In a post on this blog a couple of weeks ago, Franz-Josef Deuring, a consultant from Germany, urged companies to consider strategies where product margins are zero and the profit is […]
