Measuring Digital Services Related to the Machinery Sector

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Measuring Digital Services Related to the Machinery Sector

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DIGITAL SERVICES ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS



  • As a user, what digital services related to this sector does your industry currently use to accomplish day-to-day manufacturing operations

  • What digital services does your industry provide as a standalone product, or as a portion of the final sale of a manufactured good?

  • What digital services and related technologies does your industry currently export as stand-alone products or bundled with machinery goods?

    • Any difference than what’s sold domestically?

  • What is the most important digital services to your industry’s competitiveness/success?

  • Predict what will be most important in the future?

  • What is necessary to compete internationally?

  • What digital services is the United States most competitive in overseas?

  • Are there regions or technologies the United States is losing out to?

  • (How) Do you anticipate demand in your industry (providers or users) for digital services changing in the next five years?

  • How would you categorize the digital services identified in the previous discussion topics, whether sold as a stand-alone product or bundled with a manufactured good?

  • For each service, what is the larger digital services category this particular service is in?

  • Does your industry anticipate new digital services categories emerging within the next 5-10 years?

  • Does your industry anticipate exporting digital services or related technologies in manufacturing beginning in the next 5-10 years that are not currently exported?

    • Under which larger services categories would those services fit?

    • Which existing categories will increase or decrease?

  • How would a seller of digital services estimate the value that their services add to:

    • a customer’s production process

    • to the sale of a finished product?

  • What would be the most effective measures to show the separate value of digital services that are bundled with machinery/goods sales?

    • How would your industry calculate those measures?



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