MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE What Cutting-Edge ERP Offers
The digitalization of manufacturing demands that ERP and other software developers supply users with the key tools to get manufacturing data off the shop fl oor and into the hands of key decision makers at all levels of the manufactur- ing enterprise. At the Best Practices in Automotive confer- ence conducted by SAP (Walldorf, Germany) last October in Detroit, manufacturers shared their successes in getting best-in-class solutions implemented at large automotive tier suppliers and OEMs. With SAP’s ERP, manufacturers get data from the shop
fl oor in fractions of a second. “The value is getting data off the shop fl oor,” said Mike Lackey, global VP of Solution Man- agement, LoB Manufacturing, SAP. Using systems like SAP Connected Manufacturing, manufacturing operations person- nel and top-fl oor executives can pull data from the shop fl oor in just 100 milliseconds.
Connecting manufacturing shop-fl oor data to the en- terprise, from the shop fl oor to top fl oor, is a key focus of
companies’ Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 approaches, leveraging their factory data to make manu- facturing more fl exible, noted Stefan Krauss, global general manager, Discrete Manufacturing, SAP. “Nowadays, it’s really about connecting to the machine to run predictive mainte- nance,” Krauss said. “This world of IT and OT [operational technology] is coming closer together. This is allowing us to be able to collect that information, analyze it and simulate, and then trigger business processes. That’s where SAP’s strengths come into play.” Companies like Robert Bosch are investing in these technologies, with Bosch partnering with SAP on IIoT and Industry 4.0 efforts in its factories using SAP’s cloud offer- ings. Global networking continues to grow exponentially, said René Deist, executive vice president, Applications, Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany). Connected systems offer manufacturers and users scalability, convenience, and added value, said Deist, noting that Bosch has decided that all of its devices will be connected by 2020. “Digitalization provides huge opportunities if you face the challenges,” Deist said. “Bosch is on the way, and it’s a huge step.”
Digitalization with virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and other applications that integrate with ERP, is changing the face of manufacturing.
Several technology trends that are affecting manufac- turing customers are SaaS Cloud, mobility, manufacturing execution system (MES), IIoT, and analytics, noted Hemant Makhija, senior director, Production Marketing, Plex Systems
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