Crane as a service

You will certainly already have heard the following in this or a similar form: “The digitisation with the transformation of business processes along value chains of companies include all economic sectors.“

An expert comment by Christian Wenner, Director Business Development Kapsch BusinessCom. For some, this is a big promise, again with others, it creates doubts, for example if you can keep up with the big players as a small provider.
Digitisation is an irreversible development. People who recognise it as a chance, will also find corresponding ways to use them. This is also valid for branches appearing to be very concrete and analogous at first glance, like the construction industry and all related areas.

Intelligent machines
The digitisation will also change the construction industry. Even though bricks are laid on top of bricks, or concrete, steel or wood are still processed there, logistics processes exist behind this whose digitisation bring about many advantages. For example, construction machines are scarce and expensive goods, furthermore, they are continuously subjected to enormous loads.
The more exactly the lender thus knows about their utilisation, the better he can plan ahead. Internet of Things, in short, IoT, offers correct and sensible approaches here. For example, if it is known which machine must lift which loads, the lender can make better and more precise offers to his customers and also better plan the exchange of spare parts.

Predictive maintenance
By means of the collection of detailed information via sensors at the networked machines and the intelligent evaluation and use of the resulting data (Big Data Analytics), processes are optimised accordingly. Construction machines with sufficient capacities are thereby always in the right place. The maintenance costs are lowered, as the maintenance can be carried out in a more targeted manner by predictive maintenance (the machine itself notifies the maintenance request), and the life cycle of the heavy devices is also increased thereby.
In future building contractors possibly will not pay a time-dependent rent for building cranes, but a usage-dependent fee per ton raised. Thus, new usage-oriented business models result in this manner, as for example “crane as a service”.