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The Challenge

Digitalising core manufacturing processes with 100 % green energy

Smart Press Shop was determined to set a new industry milestone with a greenfield plant in Germany for automotive component manufacturing – one that would enable the company to deliver small-batch orders costeffectively . Objectives included paperless production and an automated process for configuring the machinery used to press automotive body parts . A key part of the strategy was to accomplish all this with an exceptionally lean IT staff , depending instead on cloud software and IT services from outside partners .

“ Imagine a system automatically making order confirmations based on machine integration instead of

manual confirmations ,” said Dr . -Ing . Timo Böhm , Project Manager , Smart Press Shop GmbH & Co . KG . “ This can help streamline production processes and enable a faster inspection and releasing process .”

To turn this vision into reality , Smart Press Shop needed a cloud-first development strategy for building core ERP and manufacturing execution systems ( MES ). The company wanted to digitalise production from start to finish – and run entirely in the cloud using 100 % green energy .

The Solution

Delivering real-time insight into shop floor manufacturing processes

Smart Press Shop is one of the first organisations to implement SAP Digital Manufacturing solution for execution together with SAP S / 4HANA Cloud , public edition worldwide . Harnessing Industry 4.0 technologies , it was able to integrate the forming of metal or alloy sheets and laser cutting equipment at its new factory with its cloud-based manufacturing execution system ( MES ).

Implementation moved swiftly with little disruption to daily business and minimal demand placed on in-house IT . The project followed a phased go-live approach to

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