Industrial machines as a service: a model based on embedded devices and web services

Abstract

In the last years, the maturity reached by the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has led us to an scenario which is suitable for facing the new business models, arisen as a consequence of the adoption of the Internet as the basic development infrastructure: strengthen of relationships between organizations and also between each organization and its customers, access to new markets, new competition models and manufacturing procedures. The research presented in this article is centred in the last field, concretely in a new method which allows an integral eBusiness model, compatible with current proposals and capable of overcoming the physical and logistical constraints that prevent the manufacturing processes from taking advantage of the whole potential offered by new technologies in this field, which are already being used by other business areas.