The Smart Factory - Smart Manufacturing Ecosystem

SAP makes Industry 4.0 a reality by connecting all the critical parts of your company with your suppliers for exceptional customer experiences. We bring intelligence and automation to the entire manufacturing process and integrate it with logistics, sales, and service. Every step is orchestrated. Every link in the supply chain is connected to the intelligent enterprise. And your company is equipped to deliver experiences that keep customers coming back. Seventy-seven percent of the world's transactions touch SAP systems, so nobody is better equipped to deliver the future of productivity, now.

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Value

SAP helps our customers move digitization and Industry 4.0 from factory-focused initiatives to enterprisewide business execution. Now, every sensor, every device, every machine can be connected—from the shop floor to the top floor—capturing, processing, and analyzing an unprecedented amount of operational data to stand out and stay ahead.

Capabilities

SAP believes organizations can realize the benefits and impact of smart factory technologies by embracing them holistically. SAP has the solution portfolio to unlock the value of Industry 4.0, combining the power of smart manufacturing with end-to-end business execution across the supply chain. In addition, we bring Industry 4.0 innovators together, orchestrating an ecosystem of machine and equipment makers, technology and application providers, leading organizations, and system integrators.

“The Smart Factory is the most comprehensive example I've seen of leading Industry 4.0 process and technology thought leaders coming together to create a best-in-class operational manufacturing facility.”

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Darcy MacClaren
SVP & GM

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Case study

Smart Press Shop: Digitalizing production of automotive body parts

Porsche and Schuler launched a joint venture, Smart Press Shop (SPS), to build the world's smartest press shop. It uses cloud solutions from SAP to support a fully digital production of automotive body parts, helping SPS reach ambitious sustainability goals. The results? One hundred percent traceable production from raw materials to finished parts and a 100% connected workforce. Smart Press Shop is staying ahead of the competition by building a better way to serve the automotive industry.

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Solution

SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud (DMC)

As a key component of SAP's Design to Operate and Industry 4.0 solutions, the Digital Manufacturing Cloud (DMC) optimizes manufacturing performance with integrated production execution, visibility, and analysis to meet evolving demands of today’s market. DMC includes powerful key performance indicators and analytics, and features detailed execution of production processes.