Why connect your machines
Connecting a machine is not about « collecting data »: it is about opening a new revenue line. Here are the three economic levers your equipment data unlocks.
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From data to margin
Service has become the heart of value for machine manufacturers, and the market is shifting to usage. Your equipment data is the fuel of that shift: captured and leveraged well, it turns into recurring revenue, usage-based offers and a selling edge. Three levers, three stakeholders inside the company.
The world is changing for machine manufacturers
Service has become the heart of value, and the market is shifting to usage. Your machines’ data is the key, provided you can capture and leverage it.
Help machine manufacturers build new closeness with their customers and new services from their products’ data. From sensor to decision.
The business model of a connected machine
From reactive after-sales to recurring revenue
After-sales stops being a cost centre you absorb and becomes a revenue line you steer. Field data feeds connected maintenance contracts and triggers spare-parts sales at the right moment, in the exact context of each machine.
- Connected maintenance contracts billed on service delivered, not on parts replaced.
- Spare-parts sales in context, triggered by real wear and machine history.
- A knowledge base self-fed by tickets and the CMMS, lowering the cost of every intervention.
Towards usage: equipment-as-a-service
The market is shifting from selling an asset to selling a usage. Machine data is the indispensable foundation of that model: without a reliable measure of real usage, there is no usage-based billing and no fleet steering. Connecting your equipment is the entry ticket to this fast-growing market.
- Reliable measurement of real usage (hours, load, cycles) as a billing basis.
- Remote fleet steering: availability, load rate, anticipated maintenance.
- A lasting, recurring customer relationship instead of a one-off sale transaction.
A selling edge
At equal performance, a connected machine wins against a mute one. Connectivity becomes a concrete selling argument: it gives the customer real-data proof of the performance, availability and gains (carbon, productivity) of the equipment they buy.
- Quantified proof of performance and availability, delivered to the customer continuously.
- A value argument (ESG, carbon savings, productivity) that justifies the price.
- A customer experience extended well beyond machine delivery.
They already did it
Machine manufacturers who turned their equipment data into value, with IOT Express.
Which new revenue line
for your machines?
Let’s talk about your fleet and your model.
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