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The Platform Economy Is Inevitable in Machine Construction

Digitalization was just the beginning - the future belongs to platforms. B2C providers are the pioneers, and machine and …

[Translate to Englisch:] Quanos InfoTwin Service Activities  

Interactive Instructions for more Efficiency in Technical Services

Quanos InfoTwin offers users a digital service assistant via the “Service Activities” function set, which ensures reliabl…

 

Intelligent Instead of Just Digital: Smart Information in Aftersales & Service

Are your colleagues in other departments already benefiting from aftersales data? If not, it's time to act! This is your …

Nutzen Sie Ersatzteil- und Serviceinformationen als Datengrundlage für weitere Systeme  

Headless API: Make Quanos SIS.one data available across systems

Would you like to access spare parts catalog data from Quanos SIS.one in a portal, app or other system? This is made poss…

 

Digital spare parts portals ensure outstanding service performance at airports

The aviation industry is aiming to become more efficient and more sustainable. The first step will be to resolve maintena…

 

Bringing Innovation to Rail Transport with Reliable Spare Parts Service

Business with new rail vehicles is losing momentum. That's why representatives of the rail industry must now put all thei…

 

Transport Industry: Reliably from A to B with Excellent Service

Without commercial vehicles, freight traffic comes to a standstill. To keep it rolling, vans, trucks and other vehicles m…

 

Service as a Future Strategy for Construction Equipment Manufacturers

The construction equipment industry is heading for a period of weak sales. Customers prefer to rent rather than buy const…

 

Service Management Revolution: 7 Key Strategies for the Mechanical Engineering Industry

The mechanical engineering industry is changing. New technologies, changing customer requirements and ever-increasing com…

 

Excellent Customer Service in Mechanical Engineering: Best Practices for Customer Satisfaction and Success

Customer service takes on a critical role in the mechanical engineering industry, as it not only contributes to long-term…

 

The Quanos Software Portfolio for Aftersales and Service

The Quanos Group’s product portfolio provides clever solutions that help aftersales and service departments and technical…

 

Why Your Service Needs Digital Spare Parts Catalogs

Are you in charge of your company's aftersales department and currently facing major challenges such as digitization? Fin…

 

Digitization In Mechanical Engineering: How to Steer Your Business Into the Future

Digitalization has revolutionized and simplified large areas of our lives. Modern technologies offer almost unlimited pos…

 

Harvesting New Revenue: The Service Revolution in Agriculture

What ends up on consumers' plates is nowadays harvested using high-tech. To ensure that increasingly complex agricultural…

 

Looking for New Business Models? Implement ‘Operator Models’ and More with Digital Twins

The expression "a rolling stone gathers no moss" has never been more relevant than it is today. If machine and plant manu…

 

Standard Software or Customized Software: Which Should You Choose for Aftersales and Service?

When it comes to networking their data and automating processes, machine builders will have to make a decision sooner or …

 

Efficiency Tools for Aftersales: How to Implement Them Successfully

Equipment and raw materials are not the only things that machinery and plant manufacturers in Germany are lacking. The re…

 

The Right Approach to Digitization in Aftersales Brings Efficiency

Companies are not embarking on digitization and the introduction of a digital twin because it is the latest trend. They d…

 

Networking Aftersales and Technical Documentation: Is the connection worth it?

Aftersales and technical documentation are often considered separately. But there is more overlap than many companies thi…

 

Service 4.0: How Do Manufacturers Successfully Manage the Service Transformation?

Service 4.0 has long since ceased to be a buzzword and is now a must for machine and plant manufacturers. How do manufact…

 

Self-Service in the Spare Parts Business: Boosting Stagnating Sales

Today, companies must not let any revenue opportunity go to waste. Valuable potential for additional revenue lies in the …

 

Cloud Platform for Mechanical Engineering: A Single Location for Aftersales and Service

To optimize internal processes, more and more machine and plant manufacturers are switching to software solutions in the …

 

Smart Services: Mechanical Engineering Companies as Service Providers

Today, machine and plant manufacturers can no longer stabilize their sales with high-quality products alone. They face th…

 

E-mobility - Part 3: Spare parts management in electric fleets

Electromobility is finally picking up speed. In the private sector, but also for companies and municipalities, this opens…

 

E-Mobility - Part 2: Electric Fleet for Municipalities

In Part 1 of this series of articles, we examined the status quo of electromobility in Germany. We also looked at the iss…

 

E-mobility - Part 1: Challenge for fleet management

The transportation sector is electrified: Because climate targets are becoming stricter, the topic of e-mobility is gaini…

 

Collaboration – Part 3: Strategies for Networked Aftersales Knowledge

Today, companies in the mechanical and plant engineering sector are not only fighting a "war for talent" — they are also …

 

Collaboration - Part 2: Teamwork as a Revenue Driver - 5 Benefits for your Service

Digitalization, the shortage of skilled workers, working from home — the transformation of the working world is in full s…

 

Collaboration – Part 1: How companies use their knowledge more efficiently

Knowledge is power - but what happens when, due to demographic change and a shortage of skilled workers, less and less kn…

 

Kostenfalle fehlender Fokus: So arbeitet Ihr Service-Team effizient und zeitsparend

This blog article is only available in German.

 

5 Tips for a Data-driven After Sales Management

Monetizing data in after-sales is a major challenge - but one that also brings major benefits for the machinery and plant…

 

5 Benefits of Data Monetization and Digitization in the Aftermarket Service

The data that service technicians and after-sales employees collect on a daily basis is of great value to the entire comp…

 

Digital business models - how your entire company benefits from after-sales data

In the previous articles in this series, we have shown: Data is the key to stable sales in service and balances out the f…

 

Why your competitors are not yet using Big Data

Big Data in industry describes the flood of data created by digitization in machines and plants. Manufacturers should not…

 

Why monetizing data will save your after-sales revenue

It's no longer a secret: data is the currency of the 21st century. It is worth hard cash for companies in all industries.…

 

Connect Field Service Management Software with Spare Parts Catalog and increase First Time Fix Rate

Field service managers want to offer their customers the best service. In doing so, they must be measured against the fir…

 

4 Benefits of Integrating Field Service Management Software and a Digital Spare Parts Catalog

Service technicians in the field face a wide range of challenges. Their primary goal is to resolve failures quickly and t…

 

Field Service Management – Detection and Utilization of Field Service Optimization Potential

After-sales service is not only increasingly understood as a profitable business model in mechanical and plant engineerin…

 

From CapEx to OpEx Part 4: New Business Models - Efficient Services

Digitalization, IoT, and global networking - these three trends allow for the complete transformation of business models.…

 

From CapEx to OpEx Part 3: Documentation Helps to Reduce Service Costs

There are many reasons for modifying machinery. These include predictive replacement of worn assemblies, repairs followin…

 

Multi-store Strategy - Does It Make Sense for Industrial Companies?

Most people know them: online stores like About You, Bonprix or MyToys. What perhaps not everyone knows is that these onl…

 

From CapEx to OpEx Part 2: Optimizing Spare Parts Storage

Manufacturing companies depend on their machinery and are therefore faced with an insoluble dilemma. The stronger the aut…

 

From CapEx to OpEx Part 1: Making the Transition from Product to Services

Over the last few years, the concept behind after-sales has completely changed – at least on the part of providers. Custo…

 

B2B Marketplaces as a Supplement to Your Own Online Store?

Driven by the convenient, media-interruption-free B2C buying experience, B2B buyers' demands are also growing. According …

 

The Service Technician's Job Description is Changing

The job profile of service technicians is changing - and with it his perspective. While technical understanding and hands…

 

E-Commerce Ecosystem: One Face to the Customer

Have you taken the first step toward eCommerce? Have you added an integrated spare parts shop to your digital spare parts…

 

Successful B2B eCommerce with Integrated Spare Parts Shop

According to the German study "Branchenreport B2B E-Commerce" by IFH Cologne, the entire B2B eCommerce market reached a v…

 

Field Service Management - Challenges and Solutions

Service is the new sales. Following this maxim, many companies in the machine, plant, vehicle, and equipment manufacturin…

 

Demographic Change - Part 1: Challenges for companies

Demographic change will keep us all busy over the next few years, and there is currently renewed discussion about raising…

 

Demographic Change - Part 2: Conserving Service Knowledge

The "perfect storm in service" - experienced personnel retiring, new personnel being scarce and encountering increasingly…

 

Retrofit: Turning Old Into New

Very often, old machines are far from being old-fashioned. Often, there is simply a lack of modern control systems or sen…

 

Automation as a Success Factor in Aftersales

Today the aftersales service business is already an important strategic business area for machine and plant manufacturers…

 

Advantages of Networked Information in the Service Information System

It is important that service knowledge is always available. With increasingly complex machines and different sources of i…

 

B2B Customer Portal With Self-Service Functions for a Successful After Sales Service

Manufacturers of machines, systems, and equipment are facing a wide range of challenges: Business models are changing per…

 

Product update: Quanos SIS.one is now available

Our new software Quanos SIS.one is now available. Quanos SIS.one is a service information system that allows you to bring…

 

Service Excellence: Personal and Digital

The strategic relevance of excellent customer service is growing and the requirements have increased massively, especiall…

 

Exchange of Service Information Between Manufacturers and Operators

The world is moving towards collaboration and transparency. In the areas of spare parts management, maintenance managemen…

 

Service Information System (SIS) for plant operators and manufacturers

Do you work for a manufacturing company or operate machines, plants or vehicle fleets? If so, you are probably familiar w…

 

5 Tips for more Revenue with Spare Parts and Services

In the case of investment-intensive goods, the after-sales department usually makes a significant contribution to revenue…

 

Predictive Maintenance – Definition, Requirements and Benefits

"Predictive Maintenance" is a frequently used buzzword in the field of Industry 4.0 and is considered a desirable goal by…

 

Digital Information Twin - Definition and Benefits

Have you already heard of Digital Information Twin? "Digital Information Twin" or "DIT" is an important buzzword and one …

 

5 Tips for Better Maschine Maintenance

Maintenance managers face a variety of challenges. Increasingly complex machines and systems, a lack of skilled workers w…

 

Automated technical documentation connected to the spare parts catalog

Auf dem ascodo Thementag erklärte Rolf Wensing, Vertriebsleiter, wie der CATALOGcreator® AI Search dem Weg zum digitalen …

 

How the mechanical and plant engineering industry benefits from Service 4.0

In many areas of life, the advantages of digitization are obvious. However, the customer service of machine and plant man…

 

Digitization - Friend or Enemy?

Digitization has been on everyone's lips for more than 10 years. Everything revolves around the topic. For example, the f…

 

Industry 4.0 - Reality and not just a Vision

The first industrial revolution achieved the first industrial boom through to the use of hydraulic, steam and coal-fired …

 

Digitization: Man, Machine and Process in Change

Digitization will continue to be the most important trend theme in the new year 2018, and companies are asking themselves…

 

What You Should Know About Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 is the German strategic initiative to take up a pioneering role in industrial IT which is currently revoluti…