How can innius help machine manufacturers?
Integrating innius’ capable features with your machines will help you to stay at the forefront of the new industrial revolution. This revolution encompasses the industrial internet of things (IIoT), industry 4.0, smart industry, smart maintenance, servitization, cloud computing, mobility and social collaboration.
Whilst often loosely used as buzzwords, these terms are of great importance to machinery manufacturers.
Servitization
An important aspect of innius is that it can help open the door to servitization. Servitization is a significant and growing area of business for manufacturing companies. Essentially servitizing your business is about offering product-service systems to your customers, which deliver a mutual value to both you and your customers during the use of products. No longer do you simply build and sell machines, but also offer a service; diversifying your revenue stream and offering significant advantages to your customers. A servitized system can be implemented using innius as the bedrock.
innius can aid the servitization of your business by enabling you to better understand how your machines are used, better predict when issues will arise, give better advice on maintenance strategies, respond faster when breakdowns do occur, collaborate with users to ensure repairs are dealt with quickly, improve your understanding of why machines breakdown and use all this as part of a continuous improvement strategy for future machine development. A servitized system therefore enables you to build better relationships with customers and increases potential parts and service sales.
Customer Testimonial
“A good working machine
was not sufficient anymore”
Erik Hjertaas, Head of Packaging Technology at Tronrud
How can I integrate innius with my machines?
If you manufacture machines which generate a data stream and can be connected to the internet, normally via a PLC, then they should be innius capable using an Ewon Flexy modem, running the innius machine integration software.If you’d like to talk to us about the specifics of your machines, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.
Do I need any other hardware, once my machines are connected?
Just mobile devices and a desktop computer to run the applications. innius is a cloud computing based service, so there is no requirement for on-premises servers.
Can innius data be shared?
Yes, through the security groups mechanism, it is possible to share selected data with other entities. For example: a user decides to share sensor data with a machine maintenance company, but keeps the documents and media hidden.
What about security?
The main thing to consider is that innius only reads your machine data, it can’t send anything back to your PLC or machines, which obviously has huge security advantages.
In addition to that a number of industry standard security steps have been taken. These are fully detailed in the Knowledge Base. Or if you want to know more talk to us.
What is the pricing model?
innius operates on a monthly subscription pricing model, giving you access to both the web admin app and mobile app. The cost depends mainly on the data usage in addition to a number of other factors. Please get in touch to talk about your specific needs.
Can I supply innius to my customers using my own branding?
Yes, please discuss with us the options for offering innius as a white label service.