Technology has evolved to the point where manufacturers must deliver tailored products to meet customer expectations.  These personalized products and customer centric experiences have made the manufacturing process much more complex.  So, how can ma...

Increasing customer expectations means manufacturing complexity – How Can Industry Cloud Solutions Help?  I am Johannes Papst, part of SAP’s industrial manufacturing team, I have been working with discrete manufacturing companies, for many years, he...

Industry 4.0 Why now? As you probably know, the concept of Industry 4.0 has been around for a number of years and we have seen many prototypes and proof of concept implementations.  I think that there is widespread agreement that Industry 4.0 provid...

At the SAP Leonardo Live event in Frankfurt a few months ago, a well-known, leading global manufacturer of machinery and equipment talked about their web shop and global B2B platform for the beverage packaging industry.  One aspect of their story par...

I would like to come back to an aspect of the Open Integrated Factory shown by SAP at the Hannover Fair 2016.See:Live Business Is Connected – Highlights from Hannover Messe 2016 orMiss this year’s Hannover Fair? Take 10 Minutes to get up-to-speed on ...