An international thyssenkrupp Materials Services team of IT professionals from the USA, Germany and India have worked together to develop toii, a new digital platform that aims to connect the machinery of the materials division. Due to predictive maintenance the platform is also supposed to forecast the necessity of machine services in the future. The name chosen by the business area is a double play on words – it spells IIoT backwards, the abbreviation for Industrial Internet of Things.
The thyssenkrupp Materials Services business area specializes in materials distribution, logistics and services and the provision of technical services for industrial plants and steel mills. In addition to stainless steel, rolled steel, tubes and pipes, nonferrous metals, specialty materials and plastics, Materials Services also offers services from processing and logistics to warehouse and inventory management through to supply chain and project management.