Speaking of Service

Find out more about Sani-Matic and Cloud Security

Sani-Matic provides equipment that’s critical to manufacturers in the food & beverage, and bio-pharm industries.  It assures that systems are ready from batch-to-batch or are cleared for new product runs—without cross contamination or sanitation issues that impact throughput, cost and final product quality.  Learn how the connected data streams from the SanitrendTM System drives customer value and aftermarket revenue for the company and therefore providing true digital transformation in their manufacturing industry.

Read Lora´s Blog: Service Your Products Better with a Connected Strategy

You made the business case for a smart connected products strategy, to transform field service or to support a new, digital business initiative. Delivering the necessary performance requires a short “time to value”, particularly in an environment of rising interest rates. That means that industrial IOT technology implementations must be as simple and quick and that the ongoing “total cost of ownership” is as low as possible—both necessary to ensure hitting the required program ROI. 

Learn how aftermarket business teams create smart connected product strategies and are achieving those goals today, all the while, growing margins and making the best use of resources. 

Review the Service Council Report: Remote Service Becoming the Standard

Manufacturers are leaning more heavily on digital tools to deliver service experiences, including digital communications channels and remote service capabilities to reduce costs, increase productivity and heighten customer satisfaction. New research from The Service Council profiles the impact of digital transformation progress in manufacturing and particularly among service teams, along with the challenges and rewards service leaders are seeing.  This episode featuring John Carroll, CEO and Founder of the Service Council and Chis Wolff, VP of Strategic Partnerships, will cover new data documenting current trends in dispatch cost and technology implementation, along with timely analysis of customer and company expectations for remote service management.

Are You Ready to Capture Value from Predictive Service Today? Take the Quiz and Find Out!

The organizations that are successful with implementing AI at scale, or those that are able to stack use cases and take advantage of compounding returns put a strong emphasis on quality data.  This is not the exclusive domain of data scientists and AI engineers, but a responsibility that everyone must share in. Chris Joynt, AI & Analytics Translator joins us again to give his perspective.

Learn How Bell and Howell Transforms the Business of Service

Bell & Howell uses data to support remote service calls and trouble shoot before sending technicians out to customers.  This practice dramatically boosts the effectiveness and efficiency of service calls, as measured by FTFR.  In this episode, Chris MacDonald speaks with Haroon Abbu, Vice President, Digital, Data, and Analytics about how Bell & Howell use data to support remote service calls and trouble shoot before sending technicians out to customers.

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Read the RTInsights editorial into Integrated Predictive Analytics: Enabling the Transition to Proactive Maintenance and New Business Models.

The value generated by Service and Quality insights obtained from connected operations is not limited to billion-dollar companies. Smaller manufacturing organizations can also achieve positive ROIs through connected assets, visualization, and analytics. In this episode, Chris MacDonald speaks with Yuri Hovanski, Associate Professor, Department of Manufacturing Engineering at BYU and Nathan Hoyt, Internet of Things Software Developer, Bell & Howell about their research and how faculty and students at Bringham Young University are leveraging IoT data and platform technology to demonstrate how small manufacturers can identify, execute, and implement solutions including analytics to anticipate problems before they occur.

Read Danny´s Perspective on Machine Monitoring and the Journey to Service Performance

How to think differently about the economic value of data and investing in appreciable data assets. In this episode, Chris MacDonald speaks with Danny Jackson, Digital Transformation Director and Brian Allred, Global Director, Data Analytics and Digital Technologies at Autoliv about their digital transformation journey and how they've evaluated the strategic value of data.

Sysmex Leverages the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) to disrupt the blood testing market – Check out how!

Executing on a smart connected products strategy in the medical device space requires vision, planning and operational discipline.  In this episode, Andy Hay, President & CEO of Sysmex America discusses their path to digital transformation and how they kept a focus on driving health outcomes. 

As a follow up to the podcast, read the IDC report Remote Service Without Losing Customer Engagement and the Human Experience to learn how to enhance service outcomes through remote service.

Service organizations are delivering resolution and quality experiences both in-person and remotely.  How can service teams make certain that customers’ perception of service value stays high without the regular, physical presence of a technician onsite?  In this episode Aly Pinder; Program Director, Service Innovation and Connected Products, IDC, speaks with Chris Wolff on how shifting service to a more remote model provides significant value around revenue growth, cost reduction and sustainability--and to customers, as well.

Explore a transformation roadmap approach organizations are advised to follow to bring AI to life.

Service leaders traditionally have focused on managing service efficiently, including parts management, dispatching technicians etc.  This has created a good deal of useful historical data, but much data about how machines are being used is not captured.  Furthermore, the questions a technician needs answers to once they get to a customer site are inherently different.   Service events offer an opportunity to completely transform customer relationships and better capture expert knowledge for a smart long-term AI strategy.  Chris Joynt, AI & Analytics Translator gives his perspective to Chris MacDonald.