In the previous blog posts we have seen that Consumer Products manufacturing companies are challenged to increase productivity while producing individualized products with high quality in an environment of constantly changing and varying consumer dem...

Although the degree of automation will increase further, people in the plant will continue to play an important role. Operators will fulfill tasks that cannot be automated – more complex tasks that are often related to decision-making. IT solutions n...

In many companies today, the actual asset health is unknown, and data is collected and handled in several silos. This leads to significant amount of avoidable downtime and inefficiency. Often, the maintenance activities are not well aligned with manu...

A smart factory is agile and adaptable and will support different production scenarios. It is also elastic, able to deal with varying production volumes and to easily support new manufacturing technologies, such as additive manufacturing. The intelli...

Part 1 of my blog series was dealing with the trends we see in the Consumer Products industry and I introduced SAP's Industry4.Now strategic initiative in manufacturing. So let us have a deeper look in the first of the four strategic Industry 4.0 the...