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Gardner Denver Accelerates Enterprise Digitalization with “Cloud of Things” IoT Platform

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Technology Category	Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Device Management Platforms
Applicable Industries	Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions	Maintenance Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Machine Condition Monitoring Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Gardner Denver, a leading global provider of high-quality industrial equipment, technologies, and services, faced several challenges. The company lacked real-time fault detection and the ability to remotely configure equipment, leading to costly servicing and repairs. The company's customers rely on the continuous operation of their industrial equipment, and eliminating downtime was a primary goal. Gardner Denver sells its equipment through a strong, global set of partners and distributors. It needed a way to capture operational information from its machinery and provide it to the organizations best placed to support its customers. Each partner and distributor takes ownership in its customers and pride in the quality performance of its equipment. Delivery of secure and unique solutions by each partner and distributor is critical to ensure high-performing machinery. Read More
About Customer	Gardner Denver is a leading, global provider of high-quality industrial equipment, technologies, and services to a broad and diverse customer base through a family of highly recognized brands. The company was founded in 1859 and has 40 manufacturing facilities located in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific with offices in 32 countries. With an extensive network of dedicated sales companies and distributors, Gardner Denver offers global expertise with truly local service capability, ensuring its advanced technologies are backed up with full support. The company's customers rely on the continuous operation of their industrial equipment, and eliminating downtime is a primary goal. Read More
Solution	Gardner Denver adopted and configured the Cumulocity IoT platform to provide condition monitoring for its highly important industrial air compressor business. The Cumulocity IoT platform provides real-time monitoring of various operational parameters on its air compressors, real-time detection of fault situations, online storage and on-demand distribution to the correct Gardner Denver service partner, and remote configuration of the industrial air compressors. It also provides customized management, operational, and technical dashboards. Each Cumulocity IoT platform is fully rebranded for each Gardner Denver brand, providing a uniquely branded customer experience that distributors and service partners can offer. The Cumulocity IoT platform allows Gardner Denver to successfully offer its IoT-powered condition monitoring service to its global customers through its extensive network of distribution and service partners. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Device Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Equipment & Machinery

Applicable Functions

Maintenance

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Machine Condition Monitoring

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Gardner Denver, a leading global provider of high-quality industrial equipment, technologies, and services, faced several challenges. The company lacked real-time fault detection and the ability to remotely configure equipment, leading to costly servicing and repairs. The company's customers rely on the continuous operation of their industrial equipment, and eliminating downtime was a primary goal. Gardner Denver sells its equipment through a strong, global set of partners and distributors. It needed a way to capture operational information from its machinery and provide it to the organizations best placed to support its customers. Each partner and distributor takes ownership in its customers and pride in the quality performance of its equipment. Delivery of secure and unique solutions by each partner and distributor is critical to ensure high-performing machinery.

About Customer

Gardner Denver is a leading, global provider of high-quality industrial equipment, technologies, and services to a broad and diverse customer base through a family of highly recognized brands. The company was founded in 1859 and has 40 manufacturing facilities located in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific with offices in 32 countries. With an extensive network of dedicated sales companies and distributors, Gardner Denver offers global expertise with truly local service capability, ensuring its advanced technologies are backed up with full support. The company's customers rely on the continuous operation of their industrial equipment, and eliminating downtime is a primary goal.

Solution

Gardner Denver adopted and configured the Cumulocity IoT platform to provide condition monitoring for its highly important industrial air compressor business. The Cumulocity IoT platform provides real-time monitoring of various operational parameters on its air compressors, real-time detection of fault situations, online storage and on-demand distribution to the correct Gardner Denver service partner, and remote configuration of the industrial air compressors. It also provides customized management, operational, and technical dashboards. Each Cumulocity IoT platform is fully rebranded for each Gardner Denver brand, providing a uniquely branded customer experience that distributors and service partners can offer. The Cumulocity IoT platform allows Gardner Denver to successfully offer its IoT-powered condition monitoring service to its global customers through its extensive network of distribution and service partners.

Impact #1	Proactively monitoring equipment, identifying faults and sharing that information in real time with partners increases the value that these distribution and service partners can offer to their customers.
Impact #2	The Cumulocity IoT platform provides sophisticated user-access controls that align to the ecosystem of distributors and service partners for each of Gardner Denver’s many compressor brands.
Impact #3	The usage-based monthly Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fee grows with customer additions, and set-up fees were fully transparent.

Impact #1

Proactively monitoring equipment, identifying faults and sharing that information in real time with partners increases the value that these distribution and service partners can offer to their customers.

Impact #2

The Cumulocity IoT platform provides sophisticated user-access controls that align to the ecosystem of distributors and service partners for each of Gardner Denver’s many compressor brands.

Impact #3

The usage-based monthly Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fee grows with customer additions, and set-up fees were fully transparent.

Benefit #1	Fast time to market: Adoption of the fully customizable, tailor-made Cumulocity software allowed the Gardner Denver condition monitoring service to be available in weeks.

Benefit #1

Fast time to market: Adoption of the fully customizable, tailor-made Cumulocity software allowed the Gardner Denver condition monitoring service to be available in weeks.

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Gardner Denver Accelerates Enterprise Digitalization with “Cloud of Things” IoT Platform

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