SAP INDUSTRY 4.0
Dominik
Metzger from SAP talks about Industrial Productivity
physical asset itself . This allows businesses to diversify their product offering against international competition .”
SAP has been at the forefront of Industry 4.0 strategy since its inception more than a decade ago . As the global leader in enterprise business applications , SAP has guided many companies to successfully adopt Industry 4.0 and make it work for them .
“ This is one of our biggest strengths ,” says Metzger . “ Our ability to deeply embed the wealth of machine , sensor and device data , in other words Industrial Internet of Things ( IOT ) data into business applications , from engineering to logistics and manufacturing to maintenance and service , thereby significantly improving end-to-end business processes .” SAP even offers a hyperscaler agnostic approach to leverage industrial IOT data . Cloud computing allows a tremendous scalability for Industry 4.0 strategies , while Edge computing ensures robustness of even the most mission critical manufacturing operations .
The second strength is SAP ’ s leadership on defining and developing initiatives for pan-industry adoption . The company is highly engaged in standardisation bodies and industry consortiums , and continues to drive the conversation forward .
“ SAP was one of the founding members of consortias , such as the Platform Industrie 4.0 and the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance which are among the leading institutions driving standardisation and execution for Industry 4.0 . The main obstacle for many customers has been TCO , the total cost of operations , the cost of ownership , and of manually integrating the worlds of hardware and software , IT and OT while making it scalable ,” says
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