The document discusses Industry 4.0, which refers to the current trend of increased automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies using cyber-physical systems, the internet of things, and cloud computing. It describes how SAP provides solutions like Leonardo to connect physical systems, extract insights from big data, and enable new business processes and models through technologies like IoT, analytics, and machine learning. The key principles of Industry 4.0 revolve around interoperability, information transparency, technical assistance, and decentralized decisions.
Supply chain and manufacturing processes are not only changing, they are being re-invented. There are very new ways of how to run your business and engage with your customers. Manufacturing is not only highly automated but also more and more digital and being able to connect to the business networks easily, decides on you business success
SAP has 45 years of experience and expertise across 26 industries. Plus we have tremendous benchmarking experience, off-the-shelf applications as well as the services and ecosystem to rapidly innovate and scale.
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SAP has commitment to Industry 4.0 and IoT with €2B Investment up to 2020
we need to intelligently connect people, things and businesses.
Intelligently stands for machine learning and artificial intelligence
Connecting stands for integration and utilization of open standards
People means end-to-end visibility and decision making
Things is of course referring to Internet of Things
And Businesses is talking about networks and processes
What if we can combine all these requirements and capabilities and offer a ”system of intelligence”?
As you can easily see, the Digital Supply Chain is connected – not only to the business partners but also to the things. This combination enables you to introduce new business models, new business processes and it changes the way how people work.
Industry 4.0 is made up of 4 design principles
[Explain the 4 design principles]
Successful companies are innovating using the latest technologies, without having to invest in large in-house teams of experts in each…so you can focus on business innovation, not technology.
While we hope you’ll build your business using technologies from SAP, we know that vendor lock-in is a scary prospect, so another benefits of industry 4.0 is that it is designed to be open, so customers and partners have flexibility to integrate seamlessly with SAP and non-SAP technology.
[High level explain IoT – Big Data – Data Networks – Analytics – Machine Learning – now we will look in more detail at IoT and Industry 4.0]