Servitization & Business Case

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The hidden cost of fouling: how a fraction of a millimeter of deposit quietly eats energy, throughput, and margin

A heat exchanger rarely fails dramatically. It declines slowly and expensively as a thin film of deposit builds on its surfaces.

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The Digital Twin Backbone: How AAS Is Winning Over the Industry

Learn how the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) enables digital asset identities, improves interoperability and supports smarter asset management.

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Digital Product Passport diagram: an OEM delivers new assets, each with a DPP carrying traceability, materials and sustainability data, into a warehouse and on to a plant, with the question of whether that data is turned into real operational value.

The Digital Edge: How Digital Product Passports Empower Process Industry

Discover how Digital Product Passports empower the process industry by delivering structured asset data, improving maintenance, safety, and digital integration.

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What OEMs Need to Know About the EU’s ESPR Requirements

What OEMs need to know about the EU’s ESPR requirements, Digital Product Passports, and how to prepare early for compliance and commercial value.

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Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation

The EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation sets the foundation for circular products – with major implications for asset owners and OEMs.

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Digitale Services entwickeln – Blaupause für Maschinenbauer

Warum 95% der Maschinendaten ungenutzt bleiben – und wie Hersteller daraus digitale Services mit echtem Mehrwert entwickeln können.

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Wie entwickeln Maschinenbauer und OEMs data driven Services

Entdecken Sie, wie Maschinenbauer mit data driven services Ausfälle senken, unbemannte Zeiten nutzen und Effizienz steigern.

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Wie berechnen Anlagenbetreiber Business Cases für Data Driven Services?

Lernen Sie, wie Sie Business Cases für Data Driven Services realistisch kalkulieren und mit KPIs, Excel-Tools und Szenarien untermauern.

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UReason’s Guide to Digital Servitization

Download UReason’s free guide to digital servitization and discover how OEMs are turning products into scalable, service-driven business models.

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Servitization Models

Servitization integrates services with products, creating value through product-, use-, and result-oriented models that drive revenue and customer satisfaction.

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Transforming Technical Field Services with Digital Asset Servitization Solutions like APM Studio

APM Studio enhances technical field services by enabling digital asset servitization for proactive maintenance, efficiency, and scalable service delivery.

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Smile curve of servitization: value added plotted against the product lifecycle, high at concept development and R&D on the left, falling through branding, design and manufacturing, then rising through distribution and marketing to after-sales product services on the right.

The Smiling Curve of Servitization

The smiling curve shows where value sits – in R&D and after-sales services rather than low-margin manufacturing. How servitization builds on that.

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Diagram: a sensor or device feeds APM Studio, which branches into remote monitoring, predictive maintenance and service optimization.

Digital Servitization: Things to consider in Co-Development!

Co-developing a digital servitization project takes strategic alignment, clear roles and attention to technical, financial and customer needs.

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A Lean Canvas for Digital Servitization Projects With an Example

How to use a Lean Canvas for a digital servitization project, with worked examples from the Control Valve App built on APM Studio.

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The Valley of Death in Digital Servitization Projects

Overcome the “Valley of Death” in digital servitization with UReason’s insights and APM-Studio platform—accelerate time to market and protect your IP.

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The Business Case for Digital Servitization Projects

How digital servitization combines products, services and technology to create sustainable growth and lasting customer relationships.

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Table of UReason's APM deployment across automation levels L0 to L5, listing the systems, data types, typical deployment location and APM focus at each level, from embedded instrumentation at L0 up to operator and OEM cloud at L5.

UReason’s APM Typical Deployment & Focus

How APM Studio works across the automation pyramid, from embedded systems watching faults in isolation to edge deployments near the data source.

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Business Case for Continuous Valve Monitoring

Control valves regulate flows in refining, chemicals and pharma. Ensuring they run efficiently traditionally falls to field operators – at what cost?

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Diagram titled 'Control Valve App data options': a controller linked to a control valve and a flowmeter, showing which signals can be supplied under option A, valve position and valve set point, and option B, flow set point, valve set point and flow measurement.

Data Sharing – A Look at the Valve Market

The benefits and challenges of data sharing in the valve market, and how OEMs, service providers and peers can use operational asset data.

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Diagram titled 'Digital monitoring twins - device to edge to cloud': pumps on site feeding individual digital twins in an on-premise APM instance, which are discovered and aggregated into a larger set of digital twins in the cloud.

Digital Twins in APM & APM Studio

Remote Digital Twins are virtual replicas of physical assets, giving real-time access to properties so you can choose where to run diagnostics.

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Critical Valves – Failure is not an Option

An operationally critical control valve holds precise control over flowrate, pressure, temperature or fluid level – and failure is not an option.

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The Business Case for Continuous Valve Diagnostics – Process Perspective

Advanced Process Control improves efficiency, product quality and performance – and depends on control valves that behave predictably.

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The Business Case for Continuous Valve Diagnostics – Organisational Perspective: Scarcity of Skills & Expertise

Skilled valve specialists are scarce. How continuous diagnostics let a small team cover a large valve fleet across one or several sites.

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The Business Case for Continuous Valve Diagnostics – Financial Perspective: Optimizing OPEX and Deferring CAPEX

The financial view on continuous valve diagnostics: where the OPEX savings come from, and how monitoring defers capital replacement spend.

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The Business Case for Continuous Valve Diagnostics – People Perspective: Continuous Valve Diagnostics

Control valves regulate fluid flow across the process industries. Just as important are the people who look after them.

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Business Cases: How To Make The Case for Improved Reliability of Control Valves

Why monitoring control valves improves reliability and safety, and how the Control Valve App estimates remaining useful life to plan maintenance.

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Service-as-a-Service: Improve Valve Performance with Reliability Engineering

Control valves could soon be offered as a service, with throughput and uptime the measure – which calls for standalone valve health monitoring.

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Unlock the Power of Reliability-as-a-service for Control Valves

Reliability-as-a-service is an innovative approach blending AI and SaaS. It can empower smarter asset maintenance and replacement decisions.

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The Changing World of Valve Service Companies

Specialised valve service companies now offer high-quality maintenance programmes with advanced diagnostics, independent of the machine builders.

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Digitization – Doing it Together?!

How to start digitising your products and processes, the path towards servitization, and what works and does not in digital transformation.

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Wie entwickeln Maschinenbauer und OEMs data driven Services?

UReason unterstützt Maschinenbauer und OEMs dabei, digitale Services zu entwickeln, die Betreibern die Nutzung ihrer Daten ermöglichen.

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Digitale Services entwickeln – Blaupause für Maschinenbauer

Maschinenbauer und Komponentenhersteller entwickeln digitale Services, die Betreibern die Integration neuer Informationen in Arbeitsprozesse erleichtern.

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