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Digital sustainability

3 energy saving initiatives that can cut your energy bills right now!

The cost of energy has been steadily increasing for a while now, and this affects manufacturers and customers alike. Here, we present three simple and effective ways to save on energy spending and create a more sustainable production line.

Roy Chikballapur

April 21, 2022

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Energy management in the digital age

Manufacturing companies face regulations regarding energy efficient production, and digitalization can deliver the energy management solution that is needed.

Roy Chikballapur

March 16, 2022

Services

Selling smart services and scaling the business (Part 3)

This is the final in a 3-post article series on Smart Services. If you haven’t read the previous parts, here are the links:

Roy Chikballapur

July 6, 2021

Services

The Product Manager’s guide for Smart Services (Part2)

This is the second in a 3-post article series on Smart Services. You can read the first article on building a strong business case here.

Roy Chikballapur

May 27, 2021

Services

The Product Manager’s guide for Smart Services (Part 1)

In this series of posts, I address service product management topics around building smart services – more specifically remote monitoring

Roy Chikballapur

April 21, 2021

Services

The Manifesto for a New Normal

It was exactly a year ago that I returned from BrauBeviale, an international trade fair for the beverages and brewing industry and realised that I had lost my sense of taste. It was still pre-Covid-19 in the news, my doctors put it down to an inexplicable neurological cause that they couldn’t diagnose.

Roy Chikballapur

November 19, 2020

Services

Industry 4.0: Customer portals vs. Customer’s portal

In this post, I hope to trigger a debate within the Industry 4.0 community on the need for so called Customer Portals 

Roy Chikballapur

October 29, 2020