Manufacturing Magazine - June 2021 | Page 106

SAP INDUSTRY 4.0

Mike

Lackey from SAP talks about Supply Chain
quality standards - all of which must be delivered with the resources on hand . Bringing intelligence to the process allows manufacturers to respond faster and achieve these outcomes .”
Here Intelligent Factories come into their own . Quality control at every step of the process creates a virtuous feedback loop , empowering

All that data together gives them the ability to make the decisions to best support their customers employees and leveraging data to eradicate missteps sooner , rather than as a reactionary step . AI and ML technologies which “ can see more than the human eye ” can automate this process , freeing humans to spend time on value-add tasks .

“ The result is more quality throughout the entire system ,” Lackey says . “ You ’ re demanding more quality from your suppliers , more quality from the design phase , and you have better visibility into your planning . That makes everything that comes together on the shop floor even stronger , and the quality level goes up exponentially .”
INTELLIGENCE POWERED BY SAP Intelligent Factories is , in many ways , the culmination of SAP ’ s industry
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