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devices and human activities embedded with
sensors, robotics and AI are interconnected
to enable a smart and flexible production
process. Just as orders are directly sent by
customers to the factory, finished products
are directly delivered to clients from the
factory, removing the traditional storage and
distribution processes.
refrigerators, embedding their individual
preferences. During the manufacturing
stage, an open network of online factories
was created to make the process visual and
transparent for every consumer. With various
Henning Kagermann, the German physicist
and businessman known as a main
proponent of the concept of Industry
4.0, which applies increased digitisation
to industrial production, marvelled at the
creativity of COSMOPlat at the industrial fair.
Detlef Zuehlke, the Executive Chairman
of SmartfactoryKL eV, commented: “It is a
big tendency to combine IoT technology
and business models for mass production,
that’s why we need an industrial network to
connect all the global leading manufacturing
suppliers and users, and Haier’s COSMOPlat
is the one.”
COSMOPlat represents a new business
model that digitally integrates all
operations in factory processes and the
supply chain, paving the way to an entirely
new vision and new way of treating the
average user.
In recognition of its role in driving
innovation and transformation industrial
supply chains, Gartner, the world’s
leading research and advisory company,
granted COSMOPlat the Gartner Supply
Chainnovator Award in 2017. n
SAP INTRODUCES SAP DIGITAL
MANUFACTURING CLOUD
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AP SE has introduced the release of
SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud,
a new solution to help companies
optimise performance, elevate production
quality and efficiency, and ensure worker
safety. Drawing on SAP’s expertise in
the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT),
predictive analytics and supply networks, the
solution enables manufacturers to deploy
Industry 4.0 technologies in the cloud.
The new cloud solution extends and
complements the digital manufacturing
portfolio of on-premise solutions from
SAP and is available in different bundles
to serve manufacturers of varying sizes in
both discrete and process industries and
roles within their respective organisations.
SAP customers can choose from the SAP
Digital Manufacturing Cloud solution for
execution, which provides all solutions in
the manufacturing cloud portfolio, or the
SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud solution
for insights, which focuses on performance
management and predictive quality.
“Manufacturers in the era of Industry
4.0 require solutions that are intelligent,
networked and predictive,” said Bernd
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Leukert, Member of the Executive Board
of SAP SE, Products & Innovation. “Our
manufacturing cloud solutions help
customers take advantage of the Industrial
Internet of Things (IIoT) by connecting
equipment, people and operations across
the extended digital supply chain and
tightly integrating manufacturing with
business operations.”
SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud includes
the following:
• SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud for
execution: Industry 4.0-enabled shop
floor solution features ‘lot size one’
and paperless production capabilities.
It integrates business systems with
the shop floor, allowing for complete
component and material-level visibility
for single and global installations
• SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud
for insights: Centralised, data-driven
performance management enables key
stakeholders to achieve best-in-class
manufacturing performance
and operations
• Predictive quality: This helps
manufacturers gain valuable
insights to conform to specifications
across processes and streamline
quality management. It also allows
manufacturers to apply predictive
algorithms that can reduce losses from
defects, deficiencies or variations and
recommend corrective actions
• Manufacturing network: The network
provides a cloud-based collaborative
platform integrated with SAP Ariba
solutions connecting customers with
manufacturing service providers, such as
suppliers of 3D and computer numerical
control (CNC) printing services,
material providers, original equipment
manufacturers (OEM) and technical
certification companies
Also at Hannover Messe 2018, SAP
announced SAP Connected Worker
Safety, a solution designed to reduce
risks, costs and protect employees.
Information from wearables and other
sensor-enabled equipment can help
companies react immediately to a
hazardous situation or incident while
proactively managing worker fatigue
and other hazard inducers. Real-
time information allows monitoring
of compliance at all times against
regulatory and other parameters. n
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