Ralph Jeschabek

From product development to digital service management

Compressed air is a hidden form of energy that few will really be aware of. But modern everyday life does not function without it: Brewers use compressed air to fill beverages into bottles, compressed air makes dental instruments work, sets ship engines in motion and drives the machines on conveyor belts in industrial plants. A defective compressor can bring a factory to a standstill, and the effects are similar to those of a power outage. Therefore, it is important for the manufacturer and the customer to have an overview of the operating conditions and to be able to act at an early stage. ALMiG Kompressoren GmbH is one of the leading system suppliers in compressed air technology and serves customers all over the world. grandcentrix is on the one hand a development service provider for a broad range of competencies from embedded hard software projects to backends, apps and frontends, and on the other hand also a product developer for the parent company. That means: grandcentrix develops IoT devices and IT systems that can eventually be bought as finished products from Vodafone. One of these products – the Modbus Cloud Connect – was developed together with the company ALMiG and is presented in this podcast episode. Manufacturer ALMiG is now using Modbus Cloud Connect for IoT connectivity of its air compressors. By networking the compressors, extensive applications such as status monitoring and asset management or the visualization of machine usage and utilization are possible. ALMiG can offer its customers a new, digital service management and thus increase satisfaction. In episode 92 of the IoT Use Case Podcast, Roland Hänel (CTO, grandcentrix) and Ralph Jeschabek (Head of Marketing, ALMiG) talk to Madeleine Mickeleit about this collaboration.