Pay-per-use | core sensing GmbH

Pay-per-use - business model with a future

Smart sensors open up new revenue streams for mechanical engineering through usage-based rental of machines

Pay-per-use models - profit for machine manufacturers and operators

The digital transformation is also changing mechanical engineering and opening up attractive new earnings opportunities. For example, pay-per-use business models are becoming increasingly important for machine manufacturers. With this usage-based billing model, it is usually not the machine itself that is billed, but its actual use.

Machine manufacturers benefit in several ways from the forward-looking pay-per-x business models: they gain new customers and achieve better customer loyalty. In addition, recurring revenues improve the ability to plan and enable continuous capacity utilization.

Pay-per-use is also a benefit for operators: they receive state-of-the-art machines and still remain financially flexible. A usage-based machine also represents a conversion of capital expenditure (CAPEX) into operating expenditure (OPEX).

All-inclusive packages - the sales guarantor of the future

All-inclusive packages that cleverly bundle service and maintenance services are particularly interesting for machine operators. And machine manufacturers also benefit from this holistic offering. The direct insights into the machines enable predictive maintenance at the perfect time and needs-based services. The result is optimized customer processes and reduced costs, from which both parties benefit.

Advantages of usage-based business models

Increase in sales through after-sales revenue

Developing new customers and building and expanding a competitive advantage

Quality improvement through additional information

Stronger customer loyalty and satisfaction

Can your company also benefit from usage-based business models? We support you in finding an answer.

Optimal solutions for your data-based pay-per-use business model

A successful pay-per-use business model requires meaningful data that reliably reflects the actual usage intensity of the leased facility. These relevant data are provided by core sensing's smart sensors and intelligent tools.

Our IIoT platform coreCLOUD allows providers of pay-per-use business models, for example, to view the status, degree of utilization and current consumption of their machines provided to various users in detail at any time. The sensor data required for this is transmitted to the web-based platform via a secure and stable connection by the mobile phone connection of the coreMOBILE measuring amplifier integrated in the machine.

Successfully achieving a new usage-based business model - with core sensing at your side

Workshop and potential analysis

Together with you, we check the feasibility of your idea and its potential in a workshop. We then conduct an initial profitability analysis. In the process, our design tools allow us to consider various business scenarios - for example

  • recurring user fees as an alternative to a normal sale,
  • the sale of additional term or warranty extensions or
  • All-inclusive packages: Machine, maintenance and services from a single source.


Are you interested in a workshop to clarify the potentials, opportunities and risks that can arise when implementing usage-based business models? Simply contact us for a non-binding informational discussion!

Plug & Play solutions - our hardware and software for a fast proof of concept

A usage-based business model fundamentally changes existing business processes. It is therefore also associated with considerable risks. This makes it all the more important to quickly find out whether and how exactly your pay-per-use business model works, how your customers receive the offer, and what other requirements they place on you.

The plug & play solutions from core sensing allow you to quickly achieve proof of concept: For example, the technical requirements for implementing your usage-based billing model can be easily realized with our standardized sensors. As a rule, it is sufficient to replace standard machine elements with an intelligent one, which we manufacture together with our partners.

Aggregated data for confidentiality and data security

The intelligent components are configured so that only aggregated and no customer-internal data is recorded and transmitted. Your customers thus have the guarantee that the confidentiality of their data is maintained, but that the billing of machine usage is based on meaningful values.

Jan Köser | core sensing

Would you like to learn more about our pay-per-use solution? Arrange a non-binding initial consultation directly.

Jan Köser | core sensing