HANNOVER, Germany, April 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE
(NYSE: SAP) has introduced SAP S/4HANA® Cloud for intelligent
product design, a new solution for collaborative research and
development. The solution, which is built on SAP® Cloud Platform
using SAP's latest digital twin technology, is one of the building
blocks for a network of digital twins to enable new business
models. The announcement was made at Hannover Messe 2018, being
held April 23–27 in Hannover,
Germany.
Powered by SAP Leonardo and integrated with business
processes in the digital core, SAP S/4HANA Cloud for intelligent
product design (see the video) enables customers to accelerate
product design and development with requirement-driven systems
engineering and instant collaboration across an extended network of
suppliers and partners.
"The solution provides shared views of digital twin information
for customers to gain live insights on new products and to store,
share and review engineering documents with internal and external
participants," said Bernd Leukert,
Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, Products & Innovation.
"We continue to introduce innovations to help our customers
transform from the core and across the extended digital supply
chain."
SAP's network of digital twins synchronizes the virtual,
physical, conditional and commercial definitions of assets and
products in real time to accelerate innovation, optimize operating
performance, predict service requirements, improve diagnostics and
enhance decision-making. It enables new levels of collaboration
among manufacturers of products, operators of assets, suppliers and
service companies. The approach combines digital twins with
manufacturing solutions from SAP, cloud networks and SAP Leonardo
capabilities, including machine learning, blockchain and Internet
of Things (IoT), to optimize the product lifecycle with:
- Digital representation: SAP synchronizes digital twin business
data, product information, asset master data and IoT-connected data
from both on-premise and cloud solutions enabling companies to
represent the world digitally. Solutions including SAP Predictive
Engineering Insights, SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service, and
the SAP 3D Visual Enterprise applications provide access to rich
data processing capabilities and live configuration, state,
condition and control information.
- Business process: Rich enterprise-grade data processing
capabilities allow customers to create, access and update digital
twins to support business processes. SAP solutions provide an
integrated data model from design, production and maintenance to
service, including packaged integration to existing systems for
computer-aided design, ERP, and product lifecycle management.
Offerings providing end-to-end process support for manufacturers
and operators include SAP S/4HANA, the SAP Engineering Control
Center integration tool, SAP Hybris® Service Cloud solutions, and
the SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence and SAP
Manufacturing Execution applications.
- Business networks: With leading network offerings such as SAP
Ariba® solutions, SAP Asset Intelligence Network, and the SAP
Distributed Manufacturing application, SAP is uniquely positioned
to provide a virtual platform for collaboration on products and
assets. The network of digital twins enables secure data access,
sharing and governance on a global scale.
- Networks of digital representation: SAP enables twin-to-twin
connections in systems within a specific asset and on an
asset-to-asset level. SAP solutions such as SAP Asset Intelligence
Network provide semantic and industry-standards support in an asset
core modeling environment to enable live enrichment during the
product or asset lifecycle.
More information on SAP's digital twin technology is available
here.
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