Stephan Verclas
Business Coach, Consultant and Development for Digitalization and Digital Transformation
Solution Examples
Podcast Episodes
PIA Maintenance App – How Proactive Service and Demand-Based Maintenance Is Done
“Every company needs to focus more and more on its core competence – that’s why the future will depend on more collaborations and partnerships. We are already living this credo today – on the customer and supplier side,” says Tobias Weber of PIA Automation in episode 102 of the IoT Use Case Podcast. Digital Enabler helped PIA Automation develop a software package that supports and simplifies its customers’ maintenance and repair activities. PIA Automation has been working with IoT for several years now. Many will be familiar with the so-called “PIA Industrial App Suite”. This podcast episode discusses how their vision with IoT has evolved since then and what use cases they see in practice in the area of service for their customers. Digital Enabler helped PIA Automation develop a software package that supports and simplifies its customers’ maintenance and repair activities. Also: What does a day-to-day production of an assembly line of a customer of PIA actually look like? What challenges do customers face here? Which use cases really take customer service to a qualitatively higher level? Keyword IoT and strong partners – Digital Enabler! Event note: If you would like to see the whole thing LIVE and have it explained, you can do so from June 27-30, 2023 at the automatica trade fair in Munich at booth A6.302!
Digitization of the construction site as a USP for Wirtgen
With over 15 years of experience in the field of IoT, the Digital Enablers implement digitization solutions for their partners across the entire value chain. Their business philosophy is based on personality, reliability and trust – and so is their cooperation with Wirtgen GmbH. The focus of this podcast is cold milling machines. Wirtgen is the world market leader in this niche and its sub-segments. The use case is about the implementation of the so-called Wirtgen Performance Tracker (WPT) – a system that digitally records (live) data on the construction site, networks machines with each other and revolutionizes the entire business process on this basis. With the WPT, Digital Enabler support Wirtgen in the transformation to a fully automated data infrastructure on the construction site. The WPT automatically collects process data on site, such as job site progress, milling depth, optimum truck loads, downtimes or milling pattern quality. Part of the cooperation was to link the existing Wirtgen IoT system, the post-processor, to the new performance tracker. In this way, it was possible to send all relevant data as final job reports to the appropriate recipients in a fully automated and individualized manner – without any additional manpower. The success topics of predictive maintenance, artificial intelligence and digital twins are also mentioned in this podcast episode. The construction machines of the future will become smarter and more digital: At the end, Wirtgen looks into the networked future and sees promising approaches in soil stabilization, service mining, cold recycling and in the field of concrete slipform pavers. The Wirtgen Performance Tracker is the ideal complement to the Wirtgen Group’s telematics solution WITOS and offers transparent determination of milling performance.
