Servitization - the transformation from selling products to selling outcome-based services - requires changes at all levels of a business. How do you bring service-led offers to market? How do you solve the tension between products and the services the products enable? How is marketing outcome-based services different from marketing products and what changes will business have to make? On July 14th 2021 host Iain McKechnie has assembled a panel of industry experts for a deep dive into…

Servitization promises resilience and business growth for manufacturing. A question that many manufacturers ask us is where do I start? What about my existing Field Service – what changes will I need to make? This webinar was held on July 7th 2021 and hosted by Ian McKechnie. The panel of expert industry speakers shared their experience to cover what it feels like to run an outcome-based operation, what service leaders will have to have in place to be successful and what…

This final round of Wave 2 was organized by Business Upper Austria, which involved the two experts from FH JOANNEUM - University of Applied Sciences in Kapfenberg, Prof. Dr. Martin Tschandl and Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Ernst Peßl, to introduce the key aspects to the participants. In their input, the two experts presented the I4.0 roadmapping process developed by FH Joanneum, which also includes a similar tool for maturity assessment as the VDMA maturity model from the first session of Wave2. Using…

On April 29th 2021, the third session of capacity building for business support organizations was held, this time with the focus on the business implications that occur during adoption of new technologies by the companies aiming to improve their business. The aim of this session is to present tools and methods that allow the assessment of opportunities, challenges, risks and change requirements regarding business model, strategy and organisation of the company that wants to introduce new…

According SmarTechAnalysis, the market for automotive parts produced through Additive Manufacturing could reach a value of about USD 10-12 billion by the end 2029 [1]. At its   3D Printing Centre at Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Volkswagen group has not only been testing new solutions in the field of Additive Manufacturing, but also experimenting with the production of automotive parts. Audi is focusing in its 3D Printing Centre in Ingolstadt on the production of spare parts and serial…

On April 15th 2021, the first of the 4 meetings of the Boost4BSO capacity building and knowledge transfer 2nd wave has been held. The objective of this round of meetings is to share methodologies, tools, best practices and a business support models aimed at encouraging investments in Industry 4.0 with the associated BSOs of the Central European area. The first meeting, co-organized by Friuli Innovazione and MESAP, was dedicated to the use of a Industry 4.0-Readiness tool,…

The InnoPeer Advanced Manufacturing (AVM) courses offer a practical introduction to the topic of Industrie 4.0. The transformation towards Industrie 4.0 is one of the key challenges for European companies. Traditional factories turn into “smart factories” by adding connectivity and self-intelligence. Components are printed instead of casted or forged, and profit drivers will be data instead of real products. However, technological changes are not the only challenges awaiting companies…