Industrial Manufacturing
Industrial sustainability: greener manufacturing, factories, and products
Industrial manufacturers are facing the biggest challenge to date: profitable sustainability. Not only do you need to reduce emissions in your own operations and supply chains – but you also need to provide products and services that help your customers do the same.
Industry 4.0 and IIoT
Adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies, such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), AI, intelligent automation, and edge computing, continues to grow. Not only do these technologies power smart, highly efficient machinery and factories, they provide the visibility and transparency needed to reduce emissions and comply with new regulations.
Servitization
Increasingly, industrial manufacturers are adopting service-based business models and retaining more responsibility for their equipment, improving sustainability in two ways. First, when experts service their own machinery, they can ensure it runs at peak efficiency, and second, they are motivated to make better products that last longer and are easier to recycle.
Product innovation
In a recent survey, nearly half of industrial manufacturers said product and service innovation was central to sustainability. Large generator and engine manufacturers, for example, are working to design engines that can use hydrogen-based fuel to meet demand for greener products. Often, these products are bundled with services to further reduce downstream emissions.
Circular supply chain
Circular supply chains – where manufacturers reuse, refurbish, remanufacture, and recycle parts and products – are key to a more sustainable future. They can be profitable too. Using the right technologies, manufacturers can simulate revenue across multiple customer lifecycles and forecast the future value of valuable materials, like aluminum and gold.
Innovative industrial manufacturing solutions from SAP and partners
Solutions that address the specific needs of the industrial manufacturing industry help you achieve cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth.
SAP Sustainability Control Tower
Reach your sustainable business ambitions with holistic, enterprise-wide sustainability performance management. Set targets, monitor progress and gain actionable insights from dependable sustainability data.
SAP S/4HANA for product compliance
Automate compliance throughout the product lifecycle with software to manage regulatory and sustainability requirements, including registrations, classifications, labeling, and more.
SAP Product Footprint Management
Gain insights into the environmental impact of your products across their entire lifecycle to meet disclosure requirements, manage emissions, and optimize internal processes.
SAP Business Network for Industrial Manufacturing
Respond quickly to supply chain disruptions, trace components back through the supply chain effectively, improve asset utilization, and comply with sustainability regulations.
SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud
Execute smart manufacturing processes, analyze production and business data in real time, and integrate all systems with a cloud-based MES based on Industry 4.0.
SAP Intelligent Asset Management
Improve the health and performance of your physical assets and equipment with the IoT, advanced and predictive analytics, machine learning, and mobile tools.
TeamViewer Frontline Augmented Reality
Empower your deskless workforce with augmented reality-based software, smart glasses, and mobile tools – and improve everything from assembly to field service.
SAP Customer Identity Access Management
Accelerate time to market, simplify identity lifecycle management, and protect against business risks with our enterprise B2B and B2C solutions.
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Design innovative and smart industrial machinery, components, and digital solutions. Our software offers robust functionality for collaborative product design, development, and configuration. Support individual order requirements, improve product safety and compliance, extend lifecycles, and more.
Deliver exceptional customer experiences at every touch point. Our industrial manufacturing sales and marketing software supports all customer-facing activities, including personalized B2B marketing, omnichannel commerce, quote to cash for configurable products, subscription-based billing, and more.
Increase transparency and resilience across your manufacturing supply chain with SAP solutions that can help you optimize planning, respond to change dynamically, support smart logistics, and service the segment of one. Reduce your carbon footprint and support a circular supply chain – and look to your suppliers to do the same.
Take advantage of Industry 4.0 technologies, such as the IIoT, machine learning, and advanced analytics, to run smart, highly automated manufacturing processes. Produce individualized industrial equipment, machinery, and components – and attract and retain “digital” workers.
Industrial manufacturers are seeing increased process efficiency from using technology in manufacturing processes – 61% from IoT and 44% from 3D printing.
Source: Oxford Economics report sponsored by SAP
We are just at the beginning of our smart factory transformation journey. With SAP Digital Manufacturing, we will make manufacturing more intelligent, more efficient, and more productive now and in the years to come.
Jochen Scheuerer, Head of Connected Smart Factory, Carl Zeiss AG
Leverage data collected from products and assets to support new service and outcome-based business models. Grow revenue, differentiate your offerings, and work toward sustainability goals – for you and your customers. Offer equipment-as-a-service and data-driven aftermarket services, take advantage of digital twin technology, optimize field service, and more.
58% of manufacturers forecast increased demand for services.
Source: SAP Performance Benchmarking
With SAP Field Service Management, our technicians see everything at a glance and can create detailed service call reports from a mobile device. Our dispatchers can quickly track processes and approve them. This helps save our people time and improve productivity.
Daniel Voegeli, Vice President of Service Automation, Bosch Rexroth AG
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