Embracing a service-based approach has been a priority for many manufacturers this year, as it can boost and/or open new revenue streams and help strengthen customer relationships. Here are The Manufacturer’s top servitization stories of the year!
1) Transforming farming with agribots
The global population is projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. Ensuring an adequate, sustainable and secure supply of food is one of the great issues of our time. Maddy White reports on how a service-based approach could solve the question of how to feed the planet.
2) Servitization + digital tech = ↓ food waste & ↑ competitiveness
As we start to witness the widespread adoption of digitalisation – the technology focus behind Industry 4.0, Siemens UK’s Steve Martin outlines how the company’s ‘outcome based’ service proposition, allied to industrial digital technologies, is set to revolutionise its relationship with the food industry.
3) Servitization: A contract manufacturer’s journey
As a manufacturing service provider, G&B is seeing rising demand for servitization to create a more productive & lean supply chain strategy for its clients.
Laura McBrown discusses some key points G&B Electronic Designs Ltd has learnt as it offered servitization to its clients, and added value to its core manufacturing business.
4) 5 steps to successful field service servitization
Top tips to guide your business through how to keep costs low and achieve success in a servitization model.
5) Grow your business through data-driven services
Nick Frank and Dave Hogan of Hennik Edge, The Manufacturer’s networked expert advisory team, reflect on how to grow your business through data-driven services by first thinking about how they would benefit your customers.
6) Three examples that make the case for service-based models
In the past few years, the function of a manufacturer has drastically changed. With a growing number of businesses in a variety of sectors, from lighting to plastics and the farming industry, stepping into the services field, what manufacturers can now offer has transformed.
7) Daikin Applied UK: One manufacturer’s “revolutionary” shift to service
By adopting a digital, cloud-first strategy, Daikin Applied UK has created a truly connected customer value chain and a market-leading competitive advantage.
8) How can servitization be integrated into your business?
Eight out of 10 manufacturers believe using technologies to servitize their company will help broaden their customer base. But, if your business has never offered a service-based approach before, how can servitization be introduced?
9) Servitization: Embracing customers, boosting revenues
The way manufacturers talk about servitization these days, you’d think it was something new and shiny, but it’s as old as razor blades. Nick Peters reports on the background of offering Products-as-a-Service.
10) LED lighting manufacturer utilises servitization
Service-based models are increasingly being integrated into businesses, as manufacturers look to retain and strengthen customer relationships. Lighting manufacturer Lumenstream are hoping to “disrupt” the industry with their servitized approach.