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5 tips for data-driven after-sales management

Monetizing data in after-sales is a major challenge - but one that also brings major benefits for the machinery and...

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What are the 5 benefits of data monetization and digitization in service and after-sales?

The previous article already mentioned this: The data that service technicians and after-sales employees collect every...

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Digital business models - how your entire company benefits from after-sales data

In the previous articles in this series, we have shown: Data is the key to stable sales in service and balances out the...

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Why your competitors are not yet using Big Data

Big Data in industry describes the flood of data created by digitization in machines and plants. Manufacturers should...

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Why monetizing data will save your after-sales revenue

It's no longer a secret: data is the currency of the 21st century. It is worth hard cash for companies in all...

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Connect field service management software with spare parts catalog and increase first time fix rate

Field service managers want to offer their customers the best service. In doing so, they must be measured against the...
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From Pain to Gain: Smooth Data Management in the Spare Parts Business

Spare parts keep machines and systems running. Service technicians can find suitable spare parts in spare parts...
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Part 2: Interactive spare parts catalog - an end to manual data

PDF and print catalogs reach their limits at the latest when a catalog needs to be updated or published in several...

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Part 1: interactive spare parts catalog - the most important facts

Are you already using spare parts catalogs, but not yet digitally? Then it's time to discover the most important facts...

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4 Benefits of integrating field service management software and a digital spare parts catalog

Service technicians in the field face a wide range of challenges. Their primary goal is to resolve failures quickly and...

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Field Service Management – Detection and Utilization of Field Service Optimization Potential

After-sales service is not only increasingly understood as a profitable business model in mechanical and plant...

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Trends in After-Sales Service 2022

Industrial enterprises, for example in mechanical and plant engineering, have recognized after-sales service as a...

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From CapEx to OpEx Part 4: New Business Models - Efficient Services

Digitalization, IoT, and global networking - these three trends allow for the complete transformation of business models

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From CapEx to OpEx Part 3: Documentation Helps to Reduce Service Costs

There are many reasons for modifying machinery. These include predictive replacement of worn assemblies, repairs...

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Multi-store Strategy - Does It Make Sense for Industrial Companies?

Most people know them: online stores like About You, Bonprix or MyToys. What perhaps not everyone knows is that these...

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From CapEx to OpEx Part 2: Optimizing Spare Parts Storage

Manufacturing companies depend on their machinery and are therefore faced with an insoluble dilemma. The stronger the...

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From CapEx to OpEx Part 1: Making the Transition from Product to Services

Over the last few years, the concept behind after-sales has completely changed – at least on the part of providers....

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B2B Marketplaces as a Supplement to Your Own Online Store?

Driven by the convenient, media-interruption-free B2C buying experience, B2B buyers' demands are also growing....

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The Service Technician's Job Description is Changing

The job profile of service technicians is changing - and with it his perspective. While technical understanding and...

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Using 3D Data Successfully in B2B Ecommerce

Transferring offline business to online business is a challenge for some companies. The goal is to serve the needs of...

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Spare Part Recognition Via Photo - Reality Check - Part 2

In the first part of our blog series "Spare part recognition via photo - vision or already reality?" we took a look at...

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E-Commerce Ecosystem: One Face to the Customer

Have you taken the first step toward eCommerce? Have you added an integrated spare parts shop to your digital spare...

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Successful B2B eCommerce with Integrated Spare Parts Shop

What is already common practice in the B2C sector is increasingly finding its way into the B2B world: the online sale...

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Field Service Management - Challenges and Solutions

Service is the new sales. Following this maxim, many companies in the machine, plant, vehicle, and equipment...

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Demographic Change - Part 2: Conserving Service Knowledge

The "perfect storm in service" - experienced personnel retiring, new personnel being scarce and encountering...

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Demographic Change - Part 1: Challenges for companies

Demographic change will keep us all busy over the next few years, and there is currently renewed discussion about...

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AI Technology in After-Sales - 4 Use Cases

AI-based technologies and automations are revolutionizing many business areas. However, the designs, maturity and range...

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Spare Parts Recognition Via Photo - Vision or Already Reality? Part 1

Both service technicians from machine, plant, vehicle or equipment manufacturing companies and maintenance technicians...

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Strategic Maintenance: Improving Instead of Repairing

In the previous stages of the maintenance pyramid, maintenance tended to be centered on individual parts or assemblies...

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Tactical Maintenance: Looking to the Future with Sensors

In our series "Smart Information: Data makes maintenance intelligent ", we look at each evolutionary stage of the...

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Preventive Maintenance: From Repair to Prevention

After Reactive Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance is the second level of the maintenance pyramid. In the simplest...

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Reactive Maintenance: Reaction Instead of Action

In our blog series "Smart Information: Data makes maintenance intelligent", we look at each evolutionary stage of the...

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Smart Information: Data Makes Maintenance Intelligent

A revolution is taking place in the field of maintenance, repair, and service: with the feedback that IoT technologies...

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Remote Services in After-Sales - Advantages and Use Cases

From installation and maintenance to troubleshooting: The year 2020 in particular has shown that these services are...

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Retrofit: Turning Old Into New

Very often, old machines are far from being old-fashioned. Often, there is simply a lack of modern control systems or...

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Advantages of Networked Information in the Service Information System

It is important that service knowledge is always available. With increasingly complex machines and different sources of...

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B2B Customer Portal With Self-Service Functions for a Successful After-Sales Service

Manufacturers of machines, systems, and equipment are facing a wide range of challenges: Business models are changing...

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Service Excellence: Personal and Digital

The strategic relevance of excellent customer service is growing and the requirements have increased massively,...

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Interview with Thomas Nagel - Expert for Digitalization with Passion for Smart Information

“It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology[…].” In...

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Security in 3D Spare Parts Catalogs - 4 Key Principles

Germany's machine and plant manufacturers are known and appreciated worldwide for the high quality of their products....

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Use Cases for the Application of 3D Models in After-Sales

While engineers and designers in manufacturing companies use 3D data in CAD systems, other departments in these...

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Great Benefits for Little Effort: This Is How You Benefit From the Integration of Electronic Schematics

Plant manufacturer's work depends on the mechanical and electronical systems of their plants to function properly in...

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Exchange of Service Information Between Manufacturers and Operators: Win-Win Situation

The world is moving towards collaboration and transparency. In the areas of spare parts management, maintenance...

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3 Advantages of a 3D Spare Parts Catalog for Users

In manufacturing companies, 3D models generated in CAD systems for the design of machines, equipment or plants offer...

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Trends in After-Sales Service 2021

After-sales service is becoming an important strategic success factor in industrial companies. Due to the long service...

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5 Tips on How to Increase Your Revenue from Spare Parts and Services

In the case of investment-intensive goods, the after-sales department usually makes a significant contribution to...

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Predictive Maintenance – Definition, Requirements and Advantages

"Predictive Maintenance" is a frequently used buzzword in the field of Industry 4.0 and is considered a desirable goal...

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Digital Information Twin - Definition and Benefits

Have you already heard of Digital Information Twin? "Digital Information Twin" or "DIT" is an important buzzword and...

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Service 4.0 - or - Industry 4.0 and the Challenges of After-Sales Services

Over the past weeks and months, we have witnessed how necessary digitalized technologies have become in all areas of...

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Do You Know, How a Spare Parts Catalog Supports Your After-Sales?

One thing is certain, no matter whether your company manufactures machines and offers spare parts and maintenance...

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Digitization - Friend or Enemy?

Digitization has been on everyone's lips for more than 10 years. Everything revolves around the topic. For example,...

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QR-Codes for Process and Control Optimization

In your daily life, you probably get in touch with QR-codes at your local supermarket, to get necessary information...

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Solving Challenges With a Service Information System

Every company approaches the subject of interactive spare parts catalogs differently. They set priorities, consider...

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Produce Spare Parts Catalogs out of One Datapool in All Media

Do you want a system that produces different catalogs per media and language out of one main source (Single Source...

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Get Closer To Your Customer

Nowadays customer behaviour and expectations are rapidly changing. Especially while technology is having more and more...

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4 Questions About Interactive Spare Parts Catalogs

It is known, that the topic interactive spare parts catalogs and service information systems is getting more and more...

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Industry 4.0 - Reality and No Dream of the Future

The first industrial revolution achieved the first industrial boom through to the use of hydraulic, steam and...

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This Is Why You Should Invest in an Interactive Spare Parts Catalog

Are you wondering what the investment in an interactive spare parts catalog could mean to you?We explain you why this...

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Never Again Wrong Orders - Finding Made Easy!

Another wrong order? And your search for the required information had already taken an eternity?

Today we tell you...

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Why a Standard Software Solution?

An increasing turnover of spare parts, ensuring availability of parts (equipment/components), the supply of customised...

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How to Optimize Your Service and Spare Parts Business

Many companies face different challenges when it comes to spare parts management. Often, all challenges have the same...

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In 4 Steps to Your Spare Parts Catalog

Up to now, the creation of a spare parts catalog has involved a lot of effort for you? It costs a lot of time,...

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Digitization: Man, Machine and Process in Change

Digitization will continue to be the most important trend theme in the new year 2018, and companies are asking...

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What You Should Know About Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 is the German strategic initiative to take up a pioneering role in industrial IT which is currently...

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The Future of After-Sales Service: Interactive Spare Parts Catalogs

In the beginning of February 2017, the Spare Parts Business Platform took place for the fifth time in Stockholm. The...