At the Hannover Messe 2018 event this week, SAP announced the release of SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud, a ‘bundled’ set of solutions enabling manufacturers to deploy Industry 4.0 technologies, such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and predictive analytics, in the cloud.
Designed to extend and complete SAP’s portfolio of on-premise manufacturing solutions, the cloud suite is available in different packages to serve manufacturers of varying sizes in both discrete and process industries.
Customers can choose from the SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud solution for execution, which provides all solutions in the manufacturing cloud portfolio, and the SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud solution for insights, which focuses on performance management and predictive quality.
As a whole, the suite aims to help manufacturers optimise performance, elevate production quality and efficiency, and ensure worker safety, with features such as paperless production capability, component and material-level visibility for single and global installations, and a cloud-based collaborative platform integrated with SAP Ariba, to connect customers with manufacturing service providers.
“Manufacturers in the era of Industry 4.0 require solutions that are intelligent, networked and predictive,” said Bernd Leukert, member of the executive board, SAP SE, products and innovation. “Our manufacturing cloud solutions help customers take advantage of the Industrial Internet of Things by connecting equipment, people and operations across the extended digital supply chain and tightly integrating manufacturing with business operations.”
The solutions are expected to be available by the end of the second quarter of 2018.
