Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 05 | Page 96

INTELLIGENT VERTICAL: MANUFACTURING 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 S 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 96 INTELLIGENTCIO 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 www.intelligentcio.com