Manufacturing Magazine - June 2021 | Page 117

INTELLIGENT ASSETS REPORT pillars of its Industry 4.0 approach . The company has a rich heritage in plant maintenance and operation solutions , with decades of data , best practice and market stewardship to draw from .
“ If we consider Intelligent Products , being able to leverage the information that we get from the assets themselves can actually have an impact on things like quality in that particular product that ' s being manufactured or produced ,” Romanoski says . “ This

People think Intelligent Assets need to be the latest and greatest cutting-edge technology […] But it could be as simple as a temperature reading

RACHEL ROMANOSKI
TITLE : SOLUTIONS MANAGER , DIGITAL ASSETS
Rachel is part of Digital Asset
Solution Management , globally responsible for strategy , direction , go-to-market and customer adoption across SAP ’ s Maintenance & Service solution portfolio . Rachel specializes in business processes across the entire asset lifecycle with a focus on mobile , geospatial , predictive and maintenance management solutions .
Rachel has been with SAP for 8 years and while her background and education are in Biomedical Engineering from Texas A & M University , she has spent her career primarily focused on operational excellence within Oil & Gas , Chemical and other asset intensive industries . allows organisations to start to correlate trends based on how a machine might be performing to what ' s the actual appropriate yield you might be getting out of that product , for example .
“ Intelligent Assets are the building blocks of the Intelligent Factory and Industry 4.0 , and then ultimately , with Empowered People , it ’ s about bringing the people , the assets , the processes all together to really drive a resilient supply chain , no matter which of the pillars you ’ re looking to implement from Industry 4.0 ”.