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Cyber-Physical Equipment as a Service

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To transition from a traditional product-based to a service-based business model, manufacturing companies need a reliable, efficient, and affordable technological infrastructure. Moreover, in this paper we hypothesize that companies going through this transition, should consider themselves not only as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), but as providers of specific Cyber Physical Equipment as a Service (CPE-aaS), following the same digital transformation pathway experienced in other markets, from services to media. First, to clarify our approach, we introduce basic concepts and terminology. Then, general aspects related to the role of edge platforms blending new generation IoT and AI advancements (AIOT), considered as a crucial enabler technology in this context, are discussed. Finally, to illustrate our approach, two successful practical implementations are briefly presented: projects RAISE and PROMENAIDE respectively, addressing Robotic and Medical Equipment servitization for two world leading companies, namely Mitsubishi Electrics™ and ESAOTE™.

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  1. MYWAI™ SRL, Via Portobello 19, Baia del Silenzio, 16039, Sestri Levante, Genoa, Italy

    Gustavo Sanchez, Giancarlo Bo & Fabrizio Cardinali

  2. Department of Mechanical, Energy, Management and Transportation Engineering (DIME), Polytechnic School, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

    Flavio Tonelli

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  1. Department of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering and Naval Architecture (DITEN), University of Genova, Genoa, Italy

    Maurizio Valle

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials, Bremen, Germany

    Dirk Lehmhus

  3. Department of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering and Naval Architecture (DITEN), University of Genova, Genoa, Italy

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  4. Department of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering and Naval Architecture (DITEN), University of Genova, Genoa, Italy

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  5. Department of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering and Naval Architecture (DITEN), University of Genova, Genoa, Italy

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  6. Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  7. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), Lebanese International University (LIU), Beirut, Lebanon

    Ali Ibrahim

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    Klaus-Dieter Thoben

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Sanchez, G., Bo, G., Cardinali, F., Tonelli, F. (2023). Cyber-Physical Equipment as a Service. In: Valle, M., et al. Advances in System-Integrated Intelligence. SYSINT 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 546. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16281-7_31

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