快速命中：
- StartupsSaildroneandNemo的花园are using西门子Xcelerator作为以加速速度在全球范围内生长的服务。
- How SaaS and MaaS lower the barriers to marketplace entry.
- As-a-service technologies change capex and opex business decisions.
- Why the “As-a-Service” Model is Changing Automation Technology Purchases
- Digital Twin Applications by Small Companies
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Welcome to与自动化世界相提并论五. I’m David Greenfield, Director of Content, and today we’re going to look at how software and machines as a service are changing industry.
A little more than a year ago inanother Take Five video, I highlighted how the as-a-service model was beginning to change how automation technologies are being offered.
So now, I want to update this story by highlighting two start-up companies that have been able to develop very quickly due to the availability of software as a service. I learned about these companies at西门子recent media and analyst day in Detroit.
One of these companies isSaildrone这是一家设计，制造和运营一支未螺：海上安全性，海洋映射和海洋数据收集的公司的车队。Saildrone的客户不购买他们建造的无人机，而是为他们收集的数据付费。Saildrone使用Siemens Xcelerator基于云的投资组合作为一项服务，以改善整个组织的设计协作，而无需传统的IT基础架构来支持它。Saildrone的首席技术官Andrew Schultz说：制造业使用该软件在无人机中购买和构建组件，而金融团队则使用它来跟踪库存。他说，软件作为服务对他们来说是关键，因为Saildrone的主要重点是工程新产品并改善其无人机和服务，而不必管理和更新本地服务器。
Another startup user of Siemens’ Xcelerator as a service isNemo的花园，正在开发使用海洋温度稳定性，二氧化碳吸收，氧气的丰度以及害虫的固有保护，以创造一种用于草药，水果和蔬菜的水下培养环境的环境。Nemo的花园已经证明了其概念的生存能力，因此他们使用Xcelerator将其原型变成可以在全球部署的产品。他们建立了Nemo的Garden Biosphere的全面数字双胞胎，以推动其针对不同海洋的设计发展。Nemo's Garden的联合创始人Luca Gamberini说：“ Nemo's Garden是一种独一无二的系统，我们需要将其调整到将安装它的每个环境中。而且，当您几乎可以在开始之前对该环境进行建模时，就可以预见挑战并以最佳方式解决这些挑战。
听到这两个创业公司可能拥有you wondering why I’m bringing them up to an audience of discrete and process manufacturers. After all, these are not your typical manufacturing companies. But they’re not your typical oceanographic or agricultural companies either. And that’s why I’m highlighting them. Neither of these companies needed software as a service to be available for them to exist. But software as a service has enabled them to develop much more quickly than they ever could have before because of its price point and lack of need for extensive in-house IT support. Which should leave you with two questions: The first of which is: What types of companies could emerge in your space that would have taken years and years, if not decades, to mature and be a potential competitor before software as a service lowered the barriers to entry to the market you’re in; and 2) what could software as a service mean for your business—in other words, how could or should your business be adapting to better serve your customers and boost your revenues and profits if you didn’t need all the IT resources that on-premises software requires.
And it’s not just software as a service that’s making an impact on the manufacturing industries. Machines as a service are making major headway too. Here’s an example from the packaging industry where Pearson Packaging has begun offering its machines as a service that should get you thinking about how game changing the as-a-service model can be for industries of all types. Check out their explanation of how it works in this video segment.
So, I hope you found this与自动化世界相提并论五发人深省和乐于助人。
