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Digitalise Your Industrial Equipment Distribution.

Your Hannover Messe orders run on handwritten forms. Your distributor visits are logged in CRM notes. Your technical datasheets go out as PDF emails that nobody can search. Every manual order is an OEM signal permanently lost. Every emailed pump curve is a specification comparison that never compounds. FIRE digitalises your entire industrial equipment distribution — from pump performance data to valve switching matrices to compressor duty-point tables.

The Problem

A Digital Catalogue Is Not Digitalisation. It Is a 200-Page Capacity Table With a Search Bar.

Your PDF Catalogue Generates Zero Intelligence

You email the promotional range to 200 retailers. You know who opened the email. You do not know who browsed multipacks, compared capacity classs, or filtered for sugar-free. A PDF is a broadcast. A platform is a conversation that generates data.

Hannover Messe Intelligence Decays to Zero by Monday

Your team observed capacity class shifts at the fair. By the planning meeting, those observations are anecdotes. Without digital capture, every Hannover Messe is a fresh start. Structured session data preserves every listing outcome and category signal.

Every Cycle Without Data Capture Is a Cycle Lost

Every promotional cycle without structured digital capture is equipment intelligence you can never recover. A competitor who started capturing two cycles ago has rotation benchmarks and promotional velocity data. You have spreadsheets.

The Cost of Waiting

Every Day Without Digitalisation, Your Intelligence Gap Grows. This Counter Is Running Right Now.

Intelligence lost since you opened this page:
0
data points permanently lost
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0
capacity searches
unmeasured
~340 / day
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0
field visit data points
unstructured
~112 / day
⚙️
0
fleet running hours
untracked
~1,800 machines
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0
TCO comparisons
never shown
~24 / day possible
⚠️
0
at-risk distributors
undetected
~12 right now
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€0
in service revenue
at risk from missed intervals
€4,200 / day
Every week without digitalisation: 2,400 capacity searches unmeasured. 784 field visit data points unstructured. 1,800 fleet machines untracked. 168 TCO comparisons never shown. By the time your competitor has 3 cycles of data, they have predictions. You have phone logs. The gap is permanent.
True Digitalisation

What Industrial Equipment Distribution Digitalisation Actually Means.

Every Channel Digitally Captured

Portal orders, Hannover Messe sessions, showroom visits, remote presentations. Every buyer interaction structured as equipment intelligence. Not just orders. The browsing, filtering, comparing, and considering. All of it.

Rotation & Promotional Intelligence Preserved

Which SKUs accelerate, which capacity classs buyers compared before ordering, which procurement window got commitment first — preserved as structured data. Not as a rep’s memory that fades by Monday.

Seasonal Benchmarks That Compound

Every promotional cycle builds on the last. Q4 pre-order velocity vs prior year. Back-to-School uptake per channel. Intelligence does not reset. It compounds.

Buyer Profiles That Learn

Every interaction enriches the OEM profile. The convenience buyer who reorders every Tuesday. The supermarket buyer who plans ranges in Q1. Profiles that learn, not contacts that age.

ERP Integration in 20–40 Days

FIRE Connect integrates with SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, and all major ERPs and PIMs. Catalogues, pricing, stock, and orders sync in real time. Your ERP handles fulfilment. FIRE handles intelligence.

AI-Ready From Day One

The data FIRE captures is structured for AI from the first session. After three promotional cycles, FIRE AI starts predicting demand, scoring listing risk, and modelling promotional uptake.

Style Intelligence

What Industrial Equipment Brands Learn When Booth Engagement Becomes Structured Data

The Bigger Picture

A PDF With a Login Is Not Digitalisation. A Platform That Captures Shelf Intelligence Is.

Most Industrial Equipment brands define digitalisation as “our catalogue is now online.” They have a portal with a login, a product grid, and an order form. That is the first 5%. The other 95% — the equipment intelligence that happens around the order — remains analogue. Which SKUs the buyer browsed, which capacity classs they compared, which procurement window they explored but deferred. That intelligence evaporates every cycle.

FIRE digitalises the intelligence, not just the catalogue. Every portal session, every Hannover Messe interaction, every remote presentation — structured as six types of shelf data that persist, compound, and eventually power AI prediction. Digitalisation is not about the order. It is about the intelligence around the order.

The competitive gap is clear. A brand that has digitally captured three promotional cycles has rotation velocity curves, promotional benchmarks, and listing risk models. A brand that has digitally captured zero cycles — regardless of how long they have been in business — starts from zero. Time in market does not create a data moat. Structured digital capture does.

The platform is the digitalisation tool. The structured equipment intelligence is the outcome. The outcome compounds with every cycle, every session, and every buyer interaction that would otherwise have been a phone order with zero data capture.

Measurable Impact With FIRE

Reduce effort, accelerate velocity, and capture intelligence — across every channel and every procurement window.

up to
68%
Self-Service Reorders
Six products feeding one connected intelligence layer
72% origin film completion drives listing commitment
Digitalise every channel →
up to
3.4×
Promotional Reorder Rate
ERP integration in 20–40 days, live before next promo window
AI-ready after three promotional cycles of structured data
Start capturing now →
up to
8 weeks
Earlier Trend Signals
Shelf rotation visible in real-time portal data
Production adjusted before quarterly report arrives
Capture equipment intelligence →
up to
100%
Distributor Intelligence Captured
Every listing gained, lost, and at risk — tracked
Category management powered by evidence, not spreadsheets
Own your listing data →
FIRE Digitalisation

Every FIRE Product Replaces an Analogue Process With Structured Data.

FIRE B2B Portal replaces PDF ordering. FIRE Sales App replaces paper notes. FIRE Analytics replaces quarterly reports.

10 FIRE products

Every Cycle Without Structured Digital Capture Is Shelf Intelligence Lost Forever.

Rotation data. Promotional intelligence. Listing outcomes. Start capturing now.

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Talk to Our Team

Tell us about your brand, your current B2B setup, and what you are looking to improve. We will show you exactly how FIRE works for your specific situation.

No generic demos. No slide decks. A real walkthrough with your products and your industry configuration.

What Happens Next

1
Discovery Call
Your products, channels, and systems.
2
Custom Demo
Platform configured for your industry.
3
Go Live
Connected to your ERP in 20–40 days.

Own Your Data. Learn From It. Use It With AI.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

FIRE captures every spare parts catalogues interaction as structured data. When a buyer explores spare parts catalogues options on the B2B Portal or Sales App, each selection is logged, analysed, and fed into the AI layer. Over three sales cycles, FIRE predicts spare parts catalogues demand patterns with increasing accuracy — helping industrial equipment brands optimise production allocation and reduce dead stock by 15-25%. See FIRE Analytics.
Yes. FIRE Connect integrates with 250+ systems including SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, and industry-specific solutions for maintenance schedules. Most industrial equipment brands are fully integrated within 20-40 days. The integration is bidirectional — orders, stock levels, and maintenance schedules data flow seamlessly between FIRE and your existing infrastructure. Learn about FIRE Connect.
Most B2B platforms digitise transactions. FIRE captures intelligence. Every buyer interaction across Portal, Sales App, Digital Showroom, and Remote feeds one unified data layer. After three cycles, the AI predicts buyer behaviour, flags churn risk, and recommends assortment adjustments specific to industrial equipment — including installation documentation. This compounding intelligence is what sets FIRE apart.
Typically 20 to 40 days from kickoff to live operation. FIRE has pre-built templates for industrial equipment including spare parts catalogues, maintenance schedules, and installation documentation workflows. The implementation team, based at our headquarters in Wollerau near Zurich, handles ERP integration, data migration, and buyer onboarding. First structured data flows within the first week.
Absolutely. FIRE supports multi-language, multi-currency, and region-specific pricing — essential for industrial equipment brands operating across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and wider European markets. Data is hosted on AWS — with optional Swiss or European hosting available — fully GDPR and Swiss data protection compliant. Our Zurich team supports brands in German, English, and French. Contact us.
FIRE captures six categories of structured data per buyer session: product views, search behaviour, comparison patterns, spare parts catalogues interactions, order composition, and session timing. For industrial equipment specifically, this includes maintenance schedules preferences and installation documentation patterns. This intelligence compounds — each cycle makes predictions sharper and recommendations more actionable. Explore FIRE AI.
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