SAP-Solution: Industrie40

A few years ago, I checked the authorization concept of a plant manufacturer with several thousand employees - and what did I find? The buyers of one plant could trigger payment runs in the other plants of the company.

Industry 4.0, as it is called by the Industry 4.0 platform jointly controlled by the Federal Ministry of Economics and the Federal Ministry of Research, dovetails production with state-of-the-art information and communication technology.

Industry 4.0 will only succeed if digital planning reflects the reality in production as accurately as possible and production control reacts quickly to deviations.

While cloud computing has gradually arrived in German SMEs, it is still not an issue for one in ten German companies. For them, Jan Leufgens has summarized the basic considerations when taking the step into the cloud.

The core of a smart factory is the end-to-end automation and networking of all processes and the players involved in them in "real time". The project is carried out with defined, process-relevant data. SAP partner Orbis is rising to this challenge. Peter M. Färbinger spoke with CEO Thomas Gard and MES team leader Frank Wilhelm about Industry 4.0 and IoT.

SAP has long been attuned to the networked factory and production units that communicate via the cloud. The SAP Manufacturing Suite solutions integrate the ERP landscape with production processes of the Industry 4.0 era.

Industrial companies that want to remain competitive in the digital age cannot avoid addressing this topic and Smart Factory.

SMEs are still lagging behind when it comes to digitization. Are the specifications for decision-makers not precisely described in order to make decisions?