Augmentir, a provider of an AI-based connected worker solution, recently unveiled its Smart Connected Worker Solution for SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM). This innovative offering provides plant maintenance teams with access to automated workflows and intelligent guidance directly from the SAP PM system.
SAP PM is a software module in the SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system that enables organizations to manage their maintenance processes and operations. The module helps to manage equipment, maintenance planning, work orders, notifications, and other related tasks involved in plant maintenance. With SAP PM, organizations can plan and schedule maintenance tasks, track maintenance costs, and monitor equipment performance. Additionally, it provides a centralized platform for managing maintenance activities, which helps to improve maintenance efficiency, reduce downtime, and extend the life of assets.
Some of the key features of SAP PM include:
- Maintenance planning and scheduling
- Preventive maintenance management
- Corrective maintenance management
- Equipment management
- Work order management
- Maintenance budgeting and cost control
- Reporting and analytics
SAP PM can also be integrated with other SAP modules such as Material Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), and Production Planning (PP) to streamline maintenance processes and ensure data consistency across different functions. In particular, the integration of SAP PM and Augmentir’s AI-powered Smart Connected Worker Solution facilitates heightened intelligence within manufacturing plants, providing smarter plant maintenance and operational insights.
Furthermore, the recently announced collaboration also enables the production of more informed decisions, resulting in improved efficiencies across the entire operation. Combining these two powerful technologies offers a comprehensive view into the performance and productivity of manufacturing machines and personnel, enabling manufacturers to optimize their maintenance operations for greater returns.
Integrating SAP PM with Augmentir’s Smart Connected Worker Solution
Augmentir’s AI-powered Smart Connected Worker Solution bridges the gap between SAP PM and shop floor workers, utilizing advanced artificial intelligence-based mobile tools to facilitate digitization and optimization of maintenance teams. In addition, the powerful built-in Smart AI provides invaluable analytics and optimization insights that can be used to efficiently manage the workforce. This groundbreaking technology helps companies maximize productivity by streamlining processes and removing redundancies, ultimately delivering improved operational performance across their organization.
Numerous Fortune 500 manufacturing companies, including Colgate-Palmolive, are already harnessing the power of Augmentir to integrate with SAP PM and optimize their maintenance programs. Indeed, the use of Augmentir alongside SAP PM has become a popular choice among many leading industrial corporations as it provides a powerful platform for the successful management of their preventive maintenance activities.
Colgate-Palmolive Digitization & Smart Technology Engineer Gabriel Solomon shared in a statement:
“Augmentir’s ease of use and seamless integration into Colgate’s global SAP instance helped us digitize our maintenance, changeover, and EHS LOTO procedures, as well as quality checklists via digital, guided workflows. As a result of using Augmentir, we have seen up to 30 minutes saved per shift, and as much as 120 minutes reduced between maintenance notification and maintenance order closure.”
Moreover, Augmentir’s solution enables manufacturers to expand the functionality of the SAP Plant Maintenance module to the factory floor. This creates a unified interface that frontline teams can use to customize and optimize work orders, maintenance requests, and standard operating procedures. By combining this solution with Augmentir’s Autonomous Maintenance/TPM module, companies also gain comprehensive insights into the maintenance and reliability history of every asset. This, in turn, helps minimize equipment downtime and enhance the overall reliability of their assets.
Meanwhile, Augmentir Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Russ Fadel believes that Augmentir’s AI-enabled offering for SAP Plant Maintenance is more than just making plant maintenance functionality mobile – it is revolutionizing the way manufacturers digitize and enhance their maintenance programs. He added:
“Augmentir personalizes the maintenance instructions to the needs of each maintenance technician, enabling each worker to perform at their individual best, increasing maintenance efficiency and reducing MTTR. Additionally, Augmentir uses AI to process the data streaming off of these maintenance activities and provides automated insights into productivity and workforce development opportunities, creating a foundation for continuous improvement. This is the future of plant maintenance.”
