SAP INDUSTRY 4.0
Rachel
Romanoski talks about predictive maintenance
of what will be needed and when , you ’ re able to significantly reduce overhead costs . If we further look at the costs from an overhead perspective , Intelligent Assets also allow businesses to better sweat their assets . Maybe you can consider the lifecycle of the asset and understand whether you can push it a little bit further .”
Intelligent Assets are the building blocks of the Intelligent Factory and Industry 4.0
EMPOWERING PEOPLE FOR RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAINS The second major opportunity Intelligent Assets provide is in empowering employees to build more resilient and more efficient supply chains . A more informed worker is , after all , a more productive worker .
“ Not every asset is going to be applying this more prescriptive maintenance strategy ,” Romanoski says . " It might be that the best course of action for a low cost item is to run it to failure . Having this information that we collect over time empowers those people to make those better decisions , but also has a trickle down effect to building resiliency and efficiency into the entire supply chain .”
At SAP , Intelligent Assets represents the “ through line ” that connects the four
116 June 2021