Through the collaboration, both companies aim to exploit synergies in their global target markets, particularly in the manufacturing, engineering and automotive sectors.
The integration of Kuka robots into SAP's Digital Manufacturing Showcase is made possible by overarching standard protocols, such as OPC Unified Architecture. Beyond this showcase, Kuka and SAP also plan to provide Kuka robot applications based on SAP Leonardo IoT Platform.
For this purpose, the robots are to be integrated into the SAP Cloud Platform in order to evaluate the information they provide as part of condition monitoring and predictive maintenance scenarios. In addition, Kuka plans to use selected SAP technology components as part of Kuka's own Connyun IoT platform.
With this strategy, the two companies are jointly supporting industry. Through the broad Leonardo portfolio, SAP brings a variety of standard solutions to the partnership to support Industry 4.0 and IoT scenarios.