Compressed-Air-As-A-Service: Meet Olli Kuismanen, Business Developer at Tamturbo
We’re kicking off Season 2 of the Product-As-A-Service Champions podcast with a look at Tamturbo's "Touch-Free Air", an innovative approach to compressed air, offered as a service to cut out the cost and complexity of traditional air compressors.
Host Yann Toutant speaks with Olli Kuismanen, Business Developer at Tamturbo, about how their unique setup is transforming compressed air systems.
Compressed-Air-As-A-Service: Meet Olli Kuismanen, Business Developer at Tamturbo
We’re kicking off Season 2 of the Product-As-A-Service Champions podcast with a look at Tamturbo's "Touch-Free Air", an innovative approach to compressed air, offered as a service to cut out the cost and complexity of traditional air compressors.
Host Yann Toutant speaks with Olli Kuismanen, Business Developer at Tamturbo, about how their unique setup is transforming compressed air systems.
Guest speaker
- Special interest in As-A-Service.
- Doctoral Researcher at Tampere University.
- PhD thesis on "Future Value of Outcome-Based Contracts in production equipment"
- Worked 6 years at KoneCranes as Innovation Manager and General Manager.
- Interests: anything new and exciting that creates differentiation / nature.
- MBTI: ENFP.
- Definitely a starter-type personality.
- PADI Rescue Diver.
About Tamturbo
Founded in 2010, Tamturbo is a technology company that develops and manufactures oil-free air turbo compressors and OEM turbo units.
Tamturbo’s disruptive solutions enable cleaner, more energy-efficient and close-to maintenance-free compressed air production with next generation Touch-Free™ compressor technology.
The end product is oil-free compressed air that is both environmentally friendly and economical.
Compressed-Air-As-A-Service
With Tamturbo’s Touch-Free™ Air offering, you won’t have to touch a thing. Not your compressor. Not your production schedule. Not even your working capital.
Touch-Free™ Air literally means you only pay for the air you use, per cubic meter of compressed air used and/or for the energy savings achieved. Not the air compressor, the maintenance or the worries that go with it.
They’ll set up the right system for your facility, and you won’t have to touch it. You only get what you want: an uninterrupted supply of 100% oil-free air, at the lowest cost per unit.
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Key insights
"Traditional models rely on early replacements to drive profit from spare parts, but with as-a-service, waste is eliminated, and the focus shifts to real value."
"Digitalization optimizes industrial assets, letting us predict failures and reduce waste. In an as-a-service model, we stop creating artificial value through unnecessary replacements."
"Most products don't only provide one value but not all value needs to be quantified or monetized. Focus on one value that's big enough for both parties to succeed."
"5 years ago, financing options for such assets were almost nonexistent. Now, with pay-per-use financing and a better understanding from financiers, we can finally scale - but it’s still a journey."
References
TamTurbo: https://tamturbo.com/
Touch-Free™ Air – compressed air as a service: https://tamturbo.com/touch-free-air/
Olli Kuismanen's PhD thesis on "Future Value of Outcome-Based Contracts (read: Product-as-a-Service) in production equipment": https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olli-Kuismanen / https://www.tuni.fi/fi/olli-kuismanen
Webinar with the SET Alliance on “the value of digitalisation in Product-As-A-Service models”: https://set-alliance.org/upcoming-webinar-the-value-of-digitalisation-in-product-as-a-service-models/
Article “Using Heat Improves Compressed Air Production Efficiency by 90+%”: https://www.airbestpractices.com/technology/air-compressors/using-heat-improves-compressed-air-production-efficiency-by-90
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