More flexibility dealing with market and economic fluctuations as well as access to the latest technologies: that is the promise of the new “Woodworking as a Service” business model, which Weinig will be implementing over the next two years. In the future, this will enable customers to pay for machines according to actual usage. This means that a machine will not be purchased once for an amount X, but that customers will receive a machine whose utilization is invoiced at regular intervals. So it is no longer the machine that is at the center of the business model, but its performance, its output, its availability, and the service that assures all this.
With support from the “InvestBW” funding program of the state of Baden-Württemberg, the Weinig Group has received approval for funding of the “Woodworking as a Service” business model innovation. The program provides funding for companies based in Baden-Württemberg for technological research and development projects aimed at novel, data-based business models and services (known as “smart services”). Within this sponsored project, Weinig will cooperate with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA), Roth Steuerungstechnik and Hogra-Holz. The official start of the project has already been made. The project plan and the work packages have been finalized in a meeting with the partners involved
