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All-in-one solution:
Hardware & Software
Infrastructure for
digital services
Intelligent IIoT fleet Management
Remote maintenance
Cross-vendor compatibility
Digital Services

Digital services & apps — for your machines

With NextFab, you can provide digital services and run them in a scalable way without having to worry about infrastructure, operations and the processes in the background.

Generiere zusätzlichen Umsatz

Erschließe neue Einnahmequellen durch maßgeschneiderte Subscription-basierte Dienste und Apps für deine Maschinen.

Reibungslose Bereitstellung

NextFab bringt deine digitalen Servicemodelle skalierbar und sicher zu deinen Kunden – unkompliziert abrufbar, über deine Maschinen.

Lokale Infrastruktur für Services

Die gemanagte K3S-basiere Container-Architektur auf der NextBox eliminiert die Notwendigkeit, dass du dich um den Betrieb und die IT-Prozesse im Hintergrund kümmern musst.

Digital service models — added value for customers & extra revenue for your company

Darstellung von digitalen Services in der digitalen Fertigung

Digital service models offer a lot: They enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty by meeting high expectations for user experience with products. They streamline processes and reduce costs by transferring and processing information without media disruption. Additionally, they provide an ideal opportunity to unlock additional revenue and profit streams by offering added value for which customers are willing to pay.

Darstellung von digitalen Services in der digitalen Fertigung

Examples of digital services

Condition Monitoring

Offer customers machine condition monitoring as a service to increase availability. In your FleetManager, you can keep track of all your machine series and active machines in the field. With customer consent, you receive immediate outage notifications and can automate these processes (NextFab Automations). This reduces costs, enables quick fault localization, and speeds up restoration.

Remote Access in the field

Experience shows that many defects can already be fixed via remote maintenance or at least narrowed down through remote diagnostics. Therefore, offer remote maintenance and diagnosis as part of your machine services. With NextFab, you have the infrastructure to set up a secure VPN tunnel for accessing your equipment as needed. This saves you and your customers expensive on-site service calls and ensures faster recovery of factory operations after breakdowns.

Digital Maintenance & Repair Management

Receive maintenance and repair inquiries digitally and seamlessly through NextFab, directly from your customers' Smart Factory. The services are documented in the digital twin of a machine (Digital service logbook and maintenance history for resale), and you can centrally manage your requests and integrate them into your ERP/CRM system as needed (via APIs).

Digital Logbook

Offer a digital logbook for your machines as a service, allowing your customers to capture activities, events, and error messages and export them within a protocol (e.g., to meet industry regulations by documenting critical production processes). Define which machine-specific metrics or activities should be logged.

Predictive Maintenance

Utilize collected machine data from your machines in the field via NextFab for smart diagnostics and early detection of potential machine failures. Offer subscription-based service packages to increase equipment availability and open up new revenue opportunities. With NextFab, you get the necessary data foundation and infrastructure for predictive maintenance services.

Digital Consumables Catalog

Optimize production quality and machine availability through a seamless supply of consumables. Utilize an efficient digital ordering process directly from your customers Smart Factory, linking it to maintenance contracts and tailored consumable packages to promote the use of original parts and generate additional after-sales revenue.
Tipp: With NextFab, you can define consumables as subsystems in the digital twin of your machines. This allows monitoring the use of original wear parts in your facilities, including the use of RFID tags to prevent counterfeiting.

Digital Warranty Handling

Efficient warranty processing straight out of your IIoT fleet management: Customers can easily create a warranty claim online in case of a defect and seamlessly submit it to your support queue. This sends the claim directly into your desired system for smooth processing. The digital warranty cases can also be used for internal feedback to improve your machines or for further engineering purposes.

Retrofit & Upgrade of Existing Machines

Offer your customers cost-effective digital retrofits and upgrades for older equipment as a service. This requires only a fraction of the cost of a new investment while still providing the full range of efficiency-boosting digital services such as predictive maintenance, maintenance packages, and remote access. By upselling to older but mechanically sound machines, you can generate additional revenue and increase customer satisfaction through an innovative digital user experience.
IIoT Fleet Management

Your entire Machine Fleet - always under control

With the NextFab Fleet Manager, you digitally manage ayour assets in the field, gather information on health data, maintenance measures and services.

Live monitoring of machine data

In your Fleet Manager, you can monitor all relevant data of all your machines & machine series.

Service History (Digital Twin)

Activities remain stored in the digital twin of your machines and remain linked even when you resell them.

Create a Digital Twin in no time

Thanks to pre-built machine connector templates, you can easily generate new Industry 4.0 machines with individual semantics.

Over-the-air (OTA) machine updates

NextFab provides secure data connectivity to your field assets for efficient OTA updates.
Übersicht aller implementierter Baureihen in der NextFab Smart Products Lösung

Remote Diagnostics & Remote Maintenance

Secure VPN access to access your machines via NextFab to provide
cost-effective remote maintenance and instant troubleshooting.

Integration with
your ERP

Übersicht aller Integrationsmöglichkeiten von NextFab in externe Systeme

Share structured & contextualized data from your machine fleet to your enterprise applications like ERP, CRM, BI & utilize them across your whole organisation

Übersicht aller Integrationsmöglichkeiten von NextFab in externe Systeme

UI aligned
with your brand

Maßgeschneiderte Maschinenoberflächen für die vernetzte Fertigung

Build custom user interfaces & dashboards for your machines and offer your customers the full user experience of your brand - even in their Smart Factory.

Maßgeschneiderte Maschinenoberflächen für die vernetzte Fertigung

Connect to countless
SaaS-Applikationen

Übersicht der Integrationen von NextFab zu externen Applikationen

Share your machine fleet data with almost any SaaS application. Break up data silos & utilize your machine data in those enterprise apps & systems, your team uses the most.

Übersicht der Integrationen von NextFab zu externen Applikationen
3,000+ apps via Zapier
Interoperability

Interoperable Industry 4.0 products

With NextFab, you turn your machines into cross-vendor compatible Industry 4.0 products that your customers can integrate into any Smart Factory.

Übersicht von Anlagen in der NextFab Smart factory als Kartenansicht

Compatibility with all other assets in a NextFab Smart Factory

Integration into any Smart Factory

Plug & Play Onboarding

Customers can onboard their assets into a NextFab Smart Factory without any additional integration effort.

Standardised, yet customizable semantics

Individualize the data you want your machines to communicate — never losing the context to ensure cross-vendor interoperability.

Quick implementation thanks to machine connector library

Custom Solutions

Smart Manufacturing
Use Cases

Transform
IIoT Buzzwords into your Winning Formula

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NextFab provides the industrial data platform for structured and contextualized machine data to build and implement literally any Smart Manufacturing Use Case. Do you already have ideas? We'd be happy to support you on your digitization journey.

How to implement NextFab?

NextFab can be retrofitted to any industrial machine — regardless of manufacturer, communication protocol & age. Standardised semantics and a library of pre-built connectors cut implementation effort to the minimum.

1. Semantics &
Connectivity

Set up connectivity, machine semantics & functions of your assets conveniently via the guided Semantic Manager interface. Use pre-built connector templates from our asset library, which greatly simplies the process.

2. Installing the
NextBox

Physically connect the NextBox to your machine & load the asset configuration file with all required settings. Instantly your machine turns into an interoperable Industry 4.0 asset.

3. Onboarding
in NextFab
Übersicht aller implementierter Baureihen in der NextFab Smart Products Lösung

The installed machine should automatically show up in your Fleet Manager. As soon as you deliver it to the customer, he should be able to onboard it into his NextFab Smart Factory with no additional integration effort.

Our Value Proposition

Instant
benefits

Quick & easy
implementation

Works with
new & old assets

Easy
scaling

NextFab Lösung für intelligente vernetzte Industrie 4.0 Anlagen

Turn  machines into Smart Products

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Häufig
gestellte Fragen

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Warum kostet NextFab so viel?

Sichere Überprüfung des Gesundheitszustands jeder NextFab-überwachten Anlage auf jedem internetfähigen Gerät. Der Status wird als In Betrieb, Leerlauf, und Fehler angezeigt. In Verbindung mit einem MES System können diese Daten mit dem Arbeitsvorrat (WIP) verknüpft werden, um die gesamte Produktionseffizienz zu analysieren & zu verbessern.
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Wie starte ich am besten mit der Integration von NextFab?
Sichere Überprüfung des Gesundheitszustands jeder NextFab-überwachten Anlage auf jedem internetfähigen Gerät. Der Status wird als In Betrieb, Leerlauf, und Fehler angezeigt. In Verbindung mit einem MES System können diese Daten mit dem Arbeitsvorrat (WIP) verknüpft werden, um die gesamte Produktionseffizienz zu analysieren & zu verbessern.
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Warum habe ich nicht schon zuvor NextFab verwendet?
Sichere Überprüfung des Gesundheitszustands jeder NextFab-überwachten Anlage auf jedem internetfähigen Gerät. Der Status wird als In Betrieb, Leerlauf, und Fehler angezeigt. In Verbindung mit einem MES System können diese Daten mit dem Arbeitsvorrat (WIP) verknüpft werden, um die gesamte Produktionseffizienz zu analysieren & zu verbessern.