iProd Market Place and Machine Customer is the most innovative business model of Industry 4.0. The solution, conceived by IPROD, takes advantage of the IoT enabling technology of the Alleantia interconnection software embedded in the iProd IoT Tablet and that of the iProd Cloud management software integrated into the iProd MOP (Manufacturing Optimization Platform).

It is an exclusive Industry 4.0 application, which automatically manages the needs generated by the machine, thanks to which the manufacturer of the productive asset enables its customer to be able to delegate to the machine the autonomous purchase of as many products (spare parts, consumables, tools, blanks) and possible services. The manufacturer can set certain rules based on the values ​​of the parameters managed by the PLC / CNC, the time of use of the machinery or the predefined thresholds upon occurrence of which the products to be purchased are automatically added to the customer's cart.

Machine Customer which is natively interconnected with the contextual iProd Marketplace, integrated in real time with the IoT context data of the machine and with the management systems of the machine manufacturer, transmits simple notifications that require a few steps for the procurement approval process of the end user and the subsequent order confirmation of the manufacturer.

Machine Customer and iProd Marketplace is the invention that allows machinery manufacturers, without risk and without any initial cost, to always remain in contact with both their customers, suggesting the purchase of appropriate goods and services with targeted offers based on needs of the machines in contextual logic at the exact moment in which the need for their supply is generated or on the basis of their optimal planning, both with suppliers and retailers of goods, consumables and services affiliated to the iProd Marketplace, now populated by over 3 millions of industrial items from various manufacturers and distributors, natively integrated with the iProd MOP platform.