SAP SE announces an Industry 4.0 implementation project with GEA to address condition monitoring and predictive maintenance.
Over the last months, the two companies have been working together to bring machinery and engineering knowledge to the integrated, scalable and high-performance cloud offering based on the SAP HANA software.
This announcement was made at CeBIT 2015 being held from March 16 to 20 in Hanover, Germany.
“With this cooperation and the new SAP solution, we are enhancing the processes of our customers to a new level of efficiency,” said Jürg Oleas, CEO of GEA.
GEA intends to work with SAP on a project to optimize the performance of its separator and decanter machinery with the SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service solution, cloud edition.
Based on SAP HANA Cloud Platform, the solution is intended to bring together technology, sensors and machine data with business processes, applications and practices.
The anticipated outcome of the project aims to reduce structural complexity and increase operational excellence to help companies reduce cost and foster growth in existing and new markets.
GEA will use SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service, cloud edition, to help its remote service technicians monitor the status of machines located at GEA customer sites and identify unusual trends or machine behavior in real time. Integration of the Internet of Things services of SAP HANA Cloud Platform will allow for machinery data to be collected.
This data can then be enriched with business information from the SAP Business Suite software deployed at GEA.
With the system, GEA intends to offer new innovative services including modular service-level agreements, warranted availabilities and insurance to its customers.
Planned innovations from SAP in the areas of vibration and predictive analysis will further complement the solution.
The solution is expected to provide GEA the flexibility to add more machines and further product groups over time.
“As Industry 4.0 unfolds, there will be new business opportunities for manufacturers driven by software-leveraged sensor data,” said Bernd Leukert, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE.
“Organizations that start thinking now about how to incorporate innovation into manufacturing will have a distinct competitive advantage.”
