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“PhDsoft will grow in the current oil crisis because companies are searching for ways to reduce costs without raising risks, and that’s what we do”, predicted in the beginning of the year the CEO and founder of the company, Duperron Marangon. In fact, we know now, PhDsoft’s revenues are going to end 2016 in a 30% increase. Beyond the oil crises, though, there is a potential $1 trillion market to guarantee the company success at least until 2022.
Gartner has just published the report Top Strategic Predictions for 2017 and Beyond: Surviving the Storm Winds of Digital Disruption. “Digital business innovation creates disruptive effects that have a wide-ranging impact on people and technology. However, secondary ripple effects will often prove to be more disruptive than the original disruption. Digital strategists must actively identify secondary effects when planning change”, says the Summary.

One of the Strategic Planning Assumptions of the document is that “by 2022, IoT (Internet of Things) will save consumers and businesses $1 trillion a year in maintenance, services and consumables. The key findings were that: Assets under maintenance globally exceed $240 trillion, with maintenance costs of $27 trillion; Moving to predictive maintenance (with PhDC4D, for example) can often save 10% to 20% over preventive maintenance; IoT, properly deployed, can unlock this $1 trillion savings opportunity (excluding new technology investments).

Near-term flags are: Emerging use cases demonstrating the use of IoT to drive predictive maintenance; Proliferation of digital twin models to optimize predictive maintenance efforts by 2020; Reporting of improved efficiency based on IoT implementations by 2018; Software models of physical assets provided by suppliers by 2020.
The study recommends to: Identify costs associated with scheduled maintenance and consumable expenses; Target a 10% reduction of these costs, based on a shift to a predictive regime; Build a roadmap to implement IoT projects against the portfolio, targeting the fastest returns, initially focusing on larger, more complex and expensive assets — where downtime and waste are expensive — and instrument to deliver “low-hanging fruit” cost savings, starting with POC projects that have short payback periods in order to build momentum for these projects; Continue to prioritize additional IoT instrumentation for additional cost savings until you approach the point of diminishing returns.