The Future Factory Initiative is a joint effort of SAP Research as well as industrial and academic partner organizations to foster research and development for the manufacturing industry.

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It is active in the following three areas:

• the Future Factory Lab
• a Real World Testbed
• a Center of Excellence

Topics

• The Future Factory Lab located at the SAP Research Center Dresden facilitates research and development in a living lab environment, providing an infrastructure for test, validation, and demonstration. It is open to customers, partners and colleagues.
• A Real-World Testbed shows leading edge software and latest hardware developments with different scenarios, products, and prototypes in a distributed manufacturing environment. The testbed spans multiple manufacturers and demonstrates the viability of prototypes.
• A Center of Excellence provides the organizational setting to promote communication between manufacturing experts within and outside of SAP. The goal is to exchange information and experiences as well as to define new challenging projects.

Speakers

• Dr. Jochen Rode, Development Architect, SAP
• Jens Vollmann, Head of Sales, Alphacam GmbH
• Juraj Krenický, Vice President, Kaba GmbH