Tom Pettit, Chief Operations and Supply Chain Officer at Xylem, discusses the challenges faced by B2B leaders in providing high-quality customer experiences. He explores data analysis to improve equipment uptime, revenue opportunities, and address industry skills crunch. Tom also talks about leveraging AI, machine learning, and augmented reality to assist technicians and optimize asset utilization.
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Data plays a crucial role in optimizing operations in the field service industry, enabling companies to monetize service opportunities and increase asset utilization.
Augmented reality, virtual reality, and generative AI can help close the skills gap in the workforce by providing remote guidance, interactive learning, and improving problem-solving abilities.
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Customer expectations and labor constraints
In the B2B space, customer expectations are increasing, requiring faster, cheaper, and better services. Additionally, labor constraints and competition pose challenges for B2B leaders. Companies like Xylem, which focuses on water technology, face the need to deliver high-quality water assets and ensure their uptime to meet customer demands.
Utilizing data for field services
In the field service industry, data plays a crucial role in optimizing operations. Companies like Xylem use remote diagnostics and monitoring to understand equipment condition, usage, and fault conditions. By leveraging this data, they can monetize service opportunities, increase asset utilization, and enhance productivity of their limited field service force.
Addressing skills crunch and leveraging generative AI
The skills crunch in the workforce, particularly with senior technical personnel retiring, calls for innovative approaches. Augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) can help close the skills gap by providing remote guidance to less skilled technicians. Additionally, generative AI aids in retaining organizational knowledge by guiding technicians through interactive learning and prompting them in various workflows. These technologies enhance technician utilization, reduce downtime, and improve problem-solving abilities.
Today’s guest is Tom Pettit, Chief Operations and Supply Chain Officer at Xylem. Xylem is a leading global water technology company committed to solving the world’s critical water, wastewater and water-related challenges through technology, innovation and expertise. Tom joins us on today’s program to talk about challenges for B2B leaders when it comes to providing their customers with high-quality experiences and what specific metrics can help industry leaders prepare their organizations for use cases in VR training and other generative AI tools. Today’s episode is sponsored by Aquant. Learn how brands work with Emerj and other Emerj Media options at emerj.com/ad1.
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