Growing A Digital Mindset in the Lime Industry With An IIoT Platform…
How did we manage to use the technologies
and in particular, digital communication to
change and ride the possibility of
overturning the existing business model into
an innovative and competitive business
model?
discussing lime contents among the
Lime Global Brain.
Many opportunities present themselves
when a company adopts a new green-field
project in an existing brownfield facility. We
were ready to supply our services and help
our clients determine their own KPIs and
make suggestions for improvement.
IIoT is changing QualiCal’s skills and is
enhancing QualiCal efforts to be a provider
of the entire lime production experience!
Q UALI C AL C ASE S TUDY
We became the first Italian member of the
Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and
QualiCal technology is Industrie 4.0-ready.
When I logged onto Facebook in 2008, I
approached this new
technological
opportunity by trying to understand it and
analyzing its business potential. What could
I do by communicating with this social
network? How could the new digital tools
become the new functional and operational
core of our business, our structure and our
business models? How could I replace words
like LAN, Customers, Fax, e-mail, Phone calls,
Meeting, Report with Cloud, Internet,
Followers, Skype & Video-Call, Virtual,
Notifications and Posts? I did it by using the
main feature of each social network.
For this reason, our business model is:
No longer in direct competition with
other pure kiln components suppliers,
No longer a simple supplier of “steel”,
No longer a supplier of hardware.
QualiCal is now:
a designer of intelligent lime plants,
a developer of advanced analytics,
predictive maintenance and social
open source information, and a
provider of PEOPLE@WORK with the
Performance Reliability Center, data
scientist and a pool of experts
Figure 2 A New Business Model
IIC Journal of Innovation
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