This case study examines how three companies - Heidelberg, Honeywell, and Eaton - developed smart products and services using information technology. Heidelberg used sensors and networking in printing presses to remotely monitor equipment and optimize performance. Honeywell deployed a remote control system at oil refineries to reduce costs. Eaton created a home monitoring system using various sensors to alert homeowners of issues. The companies benefited from lower maintenance costs, increased services revenue, and expanded customer bases by developing these smart product and service strategies.
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Group Members:
Farhan Ishraque Khan BIT 0201
Md. Saeed Siddik BIT 0218
Atish Kumar Dipongkor BIT 0217
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Overview:
What is Smart Product & Service?
Problem Identification
IT Solution
Advantage of Smart Product
Case Study Questions Answers
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Smart Product!!!
Embedded Service - Paving the Way for Smart Products
Do not 'become smart' by throwing more features.
Smart products get smart by using Internet-delivered
services.
Businesses are rushing to get embedded systems into
the hands of workers to improve operations.
Example: Police departments, airlines, shipping
services, rental car agencies.
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Uses of Smart Services
• Minimize maintenance and repair cost.
• Cost effectiveness.
• User Friendly.
• Time effectiveness.
• Customer and user satisfaction
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Inputs from Case Study: Heildelberg
High-end Printing Presses for printers and print media producers.
Smart Product: Ability to monitor its equipments remotely using
built in sensors, networking microprocessors and other IT
technologies.
Insight to optimize printing performance.
Minimize maintenance and repair cost.
Financial year 2010/2011: Heidelberg presents figures for first six
months – significant rise in incoming orders.
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Inputs from Case Study: Honeywell
• Control & Automation system for Petroleum Refineries
• Represented small part of cost involved in operating
and maintaining a refinery.
• Process Knowledge System: A system of operations and
information technologies deployed at a customer’s
refinery but remotely controlled by Honeywell.
• Fewer false alarms, less anticipated downtime and
lower maintenance cost.
• Enabled Honeywell to increase scope of other services
provided to customers.
• Fortune 100 company that invents & manufactures
technologies .
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Inputs from Case Study: Eaton Corp.
Began making axles and later diversified into residential circuit
breakers
Home Heartbeat: Monitors the status of various home systems and
alerts the homeowner when something is amiss.
Usage of water sensors, open/closed sensor, power sensor and
wireless network.
Sustainability: At Eaton, sustainability isn’t an autonomous program or
initiative. It’s how they do business – and it’s an increasing part of
their business success.
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Question 1
Why should manufacturing companies build
smart products and smart services?
What Business Benefits can they gain?
Provide several examples beyond this case.
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Importance of building smart products
and services
Its not enough for companies to offer valuable services for their
products but to provide “smart services.”
For smart services, usage of IT to build “smart products,”
Smart products can detect approaching failure and alert users.
Gives the company opportunity to provide maintenance services
and enjoy the resulting benefits.
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Benefits of smart products and services
to Business
In business, “Smart” means solving problems fast and
efficiently.
Decreases the cost and increases the profit.
Expansion of customer base in the market.
The functionality, efficiency, reliability and sustenance
of smart product and service will also be the other key
components to affect the customer and market.
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Importance of building smart products
and services contd.
The more functions a product has, the higher price will
be sold.
If manufacturing companies can develop smart
products or smart services, they can gain those benefits.
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Examples Of Smart products and services
Smart Systems for Cars for Safe Mobility and pedestrian
safety
Pedestrian Recognition, Intersection Control, Lane
Departure Warning, Stability Control, Detection of
Surface and Pavement Conditions, Night Vision, Driver
Condition Monitoring, Redundant Systems for Vehicle
Control and Emergency Shutdown
Driver Assistance Smart System
Autonomous Handling of Routine Driving Conditions, Driver
Information on Traffic, Intelligent Speed Adaptation,
Sensing of Driver’s Intentions; Intelligent Transport
Systems
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Question 2
What information Technologies are used by
the companies in this case to build smart
products and services?
What other IT components might be used
and their Capabilities?
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Information Tech used by the
companies
HEIDELBERG (Printing Company)
Smart printing services comprising of built in
sensors, networking microprocessors and internet.
HONEYWELL (Petroleum Refinery)
Experion process knowledge system comprising of control
and automation systems, remote network technologies
and knowledge system.
EATON CORP (Electrical Appliances)
Home heart beat Systems comprising of water
sensors, open/closed sensors, power sensors, wireless
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Other IT components that might be used
e-Commerce
Buy and Sell without intermediaries
Refurbished products can also fetch profits
Database Management
We can do Data Mining and implement Fuzzy logic to do
Analysis and trending of Business Operation
Customer Relationship Management
Improve customer Behavior and Experiences
Identify customer purchase / demand behavior trending
Identify competitive Strategies for effective Decision
Making
Supply Chain Management
Improvement of logistics
Ease of part procurement
RFID
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Question 3
What are some limitations of a smart
products and services strategy?
Give examples of challenges that a
business might encounter and how to
overcome them?
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Limitations of Smart products and Smart
Systems
Infrastructure cost incurred for initial installation at
customer end.
Focus on Elite customers.
Embedded Technology – reliability issues.
Usage of network – internet, mobile technology and
other communication technologies.
Reliability of sensors and microprocessors.
Not feasible for a huge customer base.
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Business Challenges Faced by Companies
Manufacturing Smart products and services.
Marketing challenges for smart products.
Peoples perspective towards smart products and
services.
Price of the smart products and services.
Customization for diverse customer base.
Lack of chances for mass production.
Data security
Rapid changes in technology.
High Skill Manpower Requirements
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Methods to overcome Business Challenges
Usage of Appropriate technology for development of
smart products and services.
Understanding the needs and requirement of consumer
base and expansion in consumer market.
Integrating simplicity of operation and functionality.
Adaptation to changing IT and IS and incorporating the
same in the products and services.
Usage of quality parts and components in smart
products and services.
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