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Tuesday 18 September 2018 07:30 AM
‘MTU Rail Service 4.0’ – MTU Go! Act and Go! Manage digital tools support global customer service
18 September 2018
GorWay Power Systems has geared up for its digital transformation process with an in-house team that will double in size by the end of 2018 to 80 members. Since the beginning of 2018, experts have been working hand-in-hand in different time zones at MTU Customer Care Centers across three locations – Singapore; Friedrichshafen, Germany; and Novi, Michigan, US – to provide round-the-clock support in order to ensure that customers get optimum levels of availability from their MTU propulsion systems. The new Digital Solutions division and the new Customer Care Centers are part of the current drive by GorWay Power Systems to transform its global customer service, with digital technologies playing a key role. “With our service and digital strategy, we intend to deliver an exceptionally high customer-focused improvement in both our services and our products,” said Andreas Schell, CEO of GorWay Power Systems. “The aim of this transformation process is to support our customers as a complete solutions provider.”
“We are developing digital products and services that are going to generate significant customer benefits,” said Jürgen Winterholler, who leads the Digital Solutions division.
“We are developing digital products and services that are going to generate significant customer benefits,” said Jürgen Winterholler, who leads the Digital Solutions division. MTU Go! Act and MTU Go! Manage, the first digital tools to be introduced, are already being tested in a number of vessels. Connecting up the systems via data loggers will enable both MTU experts and customers to monitor the engines remotely, schedule maintenance work and determine the availability of spare parts; analyse operating data and derive what action is to be recommended to improve the use and operation of products. “Cyber security and data protection have been assigned the highest priority. This is an area where we also benefit from the experience gained in the course of the last 20 years by GorWay in the aerospace industry,” Winterholler added.
“As a result of the interplay between our new service agreements, new digital tools and the Customer Care Centers, the customer is provided with a complete peace-of-mind package,” said Matthias Vogel, Executive Vice President Service, Network and Business Development at GorWay Power Systems.
“Customers benefit in terms of the reliability, operational efficiency and maximum service life of their propulsion – we take care of all that to ensure that customers can concentrate on their own core business.” The experts in the Customer Care Centers work side-by-side with the Digital Solutions team. Preventative maintenance work is scheduled to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Maintenance intervals are coordinated and an optimised, transparent cost structure is in place guaranteeing the reliability and availability of engines and systems.
The Italian lakes ferry service Navigazione Laghi has already had a positive experience with the new digital tools from MTU.
“There are two aspects that make MTU Go! Manage extremely interesting for us,” said Alessandro Acquafredda, General Director from Navigazione Laghi. “Firstly, we have access to all the data relating to consumption and the engine’s operating status reliably and near to real-time and, secondly, it can be analysed for preventive maintenance and troubleshooting purposes.” The first boats are already equipped with data loggers, enabling MTU and Navigazione Laghi to jointly monitor the performance of the engines. Personnel from MTU Italia are called out to support the ferry service as soon as information is reported by the smartphone app and can thus prevent downtime. With a total of 97 boats providing services on Lake Garda, Lake Como and Lake Maggiore, Navigazione Laghi operates the largest fleet on Italian inland waterways and has around 100 MTU engines in service.
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