Elekta Kundenbericht

Like many other companies, Elekta needed to innovate by creating new products and service offerings in order to meet growing customer expectations. “Every year, over one million patients are treated on our machines,” explained Daniel Kingham. If a machine is down, it can affect the overall health of the business. However, in Elekta’s case, when a machine is down a patient’s health can be directly affected. Their recovery treatments are rescheduled, there could be an emotional and physiological impact, and the customer’s overall confidence decreases.

Elekta knew that the key to their success would be to identify a problem and maintain equipment before it breaks, which is why they began searching for an IoT-enabled field service solution. With the help of ServiceMax and PTC, one of ServiceMax’s partners, Elekta was able to design technological solutions that truly focus on customer needs. They chose ServiceMax for their field service management platform. And they launched a pilot of Connected Field Service with remote access offering so they could predict service needs and address them proactively.

The key benefit that ServiceMax and the Connected Field Service pilot provided is the ability to reduce or eliminate unplanned downtime. Elekta’s customers and their customers’ patients experienced more efficient and cost-effective services. During the pilot, there were over 600 preventative actions carried out, which resulted in more than 14,000 uninterrupted treatments for patients.