Early Learnings from a Logistics Testbed
not to go to the market alone with services , but rather that the partners can jointly offer the cooperative effort on the market via the project company .
The services presented in this paper help companies to design the business model of the data ecosystem , concerning roles and pricing because it can be clearly assigned which partner contributes which services to realize the cooperative offering .
The established legal entity also creates a governance framework to create joint decisions on the further development of the digital twins , the cooperative use of data or the expansion of the partner network .
6 CONCLUSION AND NEXT STEPS
This paper has shown that the three partners of the data ecosystem can realize different value scenarios based on cooperatively used digital twins . Each of the partners contributes services at different levels of the 3-tier architecture . We structured these services into six distinct service types that structure the solution space .
The testbeds ’ goal of producing meaningful actionable KPIs is realized by combining all services . The companies are working on expanding the value proposition and our findings will be further refined during this process . The testbed is also working intensively on scaling the existing services to new scenarios in comparable settings . The results of the testbed show that the digital twins and the cooperative data space can be easily extended and that additional value scenarios can be realized by adding individual context to the digital twins ( e . g ., size of the transported goods ).
Together with the project company , the partners of the testbed have been using the experience gained to scale up the business model since June 2023 . In a first step , the cooperative intralogistics optimization offering will be rolled out to several friendly customers to gather experience on how transferable the offering and the services are .
In addition , the technical implementation will be extended to indoor localization . This expansion stage has already started . In addition to the expansion , the sensor setting , and the dashboards will also be evaluated based on experiences with friendly customers to increase the data quality in the digital twins and open further areas of application with smaller units .
7 REFERENCES
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