SAP Startup Accelerator for Digital Supply Chain

3YOURMIND’s Additive Manufacturing Part Identifier digitizes part and assembly screening to find the hidden potential of large part inventories. The platform leverages decades of Additive Manufacturing experience to provide clear analysis for smart production decisions and evaluation of parts based on technical and economic feasibility, helping properly allocate AM resources within the organization.

For individually manufactured products CAD/3D-design tasks are multiple-fold more expensive than the actual production/print. trinckle offers a Web-based, end-user facing configurator to simplify, streamline, or even automate the design process for customized products.

Road freight today still is barely digitized, with limited operational visibility and opaque pricing. InstaFreight is a B2B digital forwarding company that works as a one-stop shop for road freight, making logistics more efficient for both shippers and carriers.

4tiitoo created the software platform NUIA Productivity+ to increase the productivity, ergonomics, and appeal of computer workplaces by controlling applications based on user intention, using a combination of eye tracking and artificial intelligence. Operating panels, tablets, and monitors can be completely controlled using the gaze ("hands-free") without interrupting the actual hands-on work, reducing cycle times.

Arkite’s Human Interface Mate (HIM) looks over the shoulder of the manufacturing operator. The ultimate “Virtual Guardian Angel,” it warns if a wrong operation is in progress and navigates towards standardized work. HIM reduces the cost of poor quality, increases work efficiency by reducing control operations, and creates the possibility for two-way information with the rest of the plant. HIM works contactless based on 3D sensor technology with smart software.

Technicians need more than 30% of the working time to obtain and understand information, according to McKinsey. Attenio is an SaaS that supports technicians with an optimized, augmented reality interface that provides easy access to relevant information such as 3D data, parts lists, and work instructions.

Smart Glasses relay environmentally based data directly into the user's field of vision in real-time, allowing a previously unseen view into a landscape of game-changing information and intelligence.https://daqri.com

Fieldworkers express difficulties accessing the right asset information (e.g., manuals, locations) at the right time. Kinemic recognizes a given set of gestures to enable gesture control for a variety of applications and use cases. A robust and simple wristband for gesture control is used to perform hands-free tasks in inspection or manufacturing processes.

Acerta offers a SaaS platform that uses Machine Learning (ML) to provide real-time malfunction detection and failure prediction. Its ML algorithms allow clients to access the full potential of their collected data. The platform learns the normal behavior of the tested system and the complex correlations between data streams, and automatically detects anomalies in real time.

To find a product or a specific object in an image or video it is not enough to find their category. Nyris focuses on visual search, mainly identification of products and objects of any category inside pictures or videos. Its software delivers fast and accurate results for 1D (codes), 2D (print2web), and 3D (real world products) in one API and can search up to 500M items without losing performance.  

Reliability inspections today are mostly done visually by workers and have the risk to be inaccurate, slow, or costly. The Relimetrics solution gets smartphone images and CAD model(s) as input and generates fault detection results as output. Implementation cost is lower than competitors, as the algorithm does not require expensive installations of special cameras.

Onboarding and integrating industrial devices into IoT solutions is often a long, complex, and error-prone process that delays or halts the realization of IoT benefits. Omnio is SaaS that makes it fast and easy to onboard industrial devices to IoT solutions .

Teraki's unique edge processing technology solves the performance issues and the cost challenges for connected cars and autonomous driving. Its software operates in constrained and embedded hardware and gets AI-optimised car data to customers with the highest possible accuracy rates. In doing so, Teraki enables applications such as crash detection, predictive accident alerts, predictive maintenance, fleet management, and autonomous driving.

Area17 software provides robust navigation information to machines, allowing them to operate collision-free in unstructured, GPS-denied, indoor, urban, and harsh environments with no operator supervision.

Blik developed a new sensor-based technology that enables accurate and price-efficient indoor positioning in warehouses and on factory shop floors. It tracks processes without the need to change them.

Enterprises spend millions perfecting complex supply-chain operations that rely heavily on data. Variances due to resources, material, processes, and logistics can quickly invalidate even the best models. Cloudleaf leverages the ubiquity of low-cost sensors, mobile, cloud computing, and machine learning to deliver real-time operational intelligence in global supply chains.

QUADRICA presents intuitive solutions in the display and data management of 3D scans. The MySurvey solution offers 360-degree virtual visits of facilities, measurement of asset attributes (surface, volume, slops, polylines, etc.), enrichment of the asset drawings (documents database), and the ability to do simulations (clash detection, setting-up of new equipment).

Sensors attach to shipments or assets and can act as a mobile gateway for package or item level monitoring. An industry first. Roambee's devices work as standalone solutions or together for complete, end-to-end coverage. 

Retail companies are under pressure to deliver goods faster than ever. This is only possible by automating processes and reengineering warehouse operations to be more efficient. The Fetch Robotics Platform provides an AMR (autonomous mobile robots) solution that deploys in hours and addresses multiple applications – including material handling and data collection – with a common, unified, cloud-based platform.

Most improvements in manufacturing are made around the concept of the assembly line. New concepts of production are missing scale. Serva TS offers driverless transport systems hardware and software from a single source. The Serva TS fleet manager connects, operates, controls, and optimizes the whole production environment – including AGV (automated guided vehicle) fleets, machines, and production robots through algorithms.

Still, SAP’s customers and other AGV-operators will ask themselves: How can I ensure that my investments will not become obsolete due to these frequent changes in the underlying hardware business due to proprietary software stacks, fragmented programming environments and  IT complexity?

In joint work with Serva TS, SAP is currently focusing on the achievement of a “Vendor Independent Fleet Management Software” or “Herstellerübergreifender Flottenverwaltungssoftware” in order to unlock the innovation of third-parties that develop apps for fleet management, assistive robots, skills & services which can run on compliant robots, e.g. for mobility, packaging, picking, quality control, placing, and many more tasks.

Traditional sensing equipment is expensive and offers limited data analytics. Policy makers, business executives, and environmental experts lack automated data analytics and insights. Breeze Technologies uses small-scale, low-cost air quality sensors. Its environmental analytics cloud platform gathers real-time data and improves data reliability and accuracy.

Co-working, offices, residential buildings, and storage need new ways to increase operational and financial benefits. Smart Spaces Solutions provides fast and simple digital access, digital lockers, easy coordination and communication of service providers, and optimal use of space.

Sensire’s solution transforms IoT data into business-relevant analysis, making the cold chain intelligent by combining wireless sensors and online data access.

Transportation is subject to diverse external disruptions, such as traffic jams, closed borders, accidents, and weather situations, resulting in wrong estimated arrival times. Synfioo offers an innovative arrival time forecast through a software platform for monitoring intermodal, end-to-end transportation chains in real time. It leverages Big Data analysis and Machine Learning to provide action alerts and dynamic decision support.