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The Digital Revolution
The german term Industrie 4.0 (Industry 4.0) is understood to mean a fourth industrial or digital revolution that will bring about a profound and lasting transformation of economic and social conditions: “Industry 4.0 will give rise to new forms of value creation and new types of business models”. (Citation: Implementation Recommendation Industry 4.0 of the Federal Republic of Germany as of 2013: p. 5).
This subsumes the following:
- Horizontal integration via value networks
- Digital consistency of engineering across the entire value chain
- Vertical integration and networked production systems
However, such a change does not happen overnight. Rather, processes and systems are gradually changing across industries, and to meet these new challenges, companies need to get informed.
8 fields of action identified:
8 fields of action identified:
- Standardization and reference architecture
- Mastery of complex systems
- Comprehensive broadband infrastructure for industry
- Security
- Work organization and design
- Education and training
- Legal framework
- Resource efficiency
Digitalization will bring extensive changes and have a fundamental impact on your business environment. The Internet of Things (or Internet of Things) opens up many unimagined possibilities through the increasing networking of customers, suppliers, machines, products and components.
Technology and Innovation
IoT
Nowadays, everyday objects are able to collect and share data with minimal human involvement. This data (big data) can be analysed and evaluated using computing solutions.
Smarttags
Via the SAP system, containers can be centrally controlled and updated without having to print out classic labels again. The barcodes are only adjusted digitally on the e-ink display.
SAP Leonardo
Leonardo is the new digital innovation system that provides thematic blocks, applications and microservices for the IoT and machine learning as well as artificial intelligence but also blockchain and analytics.
SAP Netweaver
SAP Netweaver is the fundamental platform of the ERP and S/4HANA systems. It enables the integration of business processes and databases from various sources based on web service technologies.
The Digital Revolution
Many companies have already taken up the topic of the Digital Revolution. Digital components are intended to sustainably change previous value chains with the help of networked systems.
