"Digital transformation will be critical for the manufacturing
industries to increase productivity, flexibility and accelerate innovation, so
companies must come together in new ways to enable the digital enterprise,”
said Klaus Helmrich, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of Siemens
Digital Industries. “This exciting collaboration between two industry leaders is
about more than just interoperability and interfaces; it is about creating a truly
integrated digital thread that unites product and asset lifecycle management
with the business that enables customers to optimize production of products.”
Silos between
engineering and business have existed in enterprises for decades. This new
partnership will help customers to break down these siloes so manufacturers,
product design teams and service managers have the information needed to
quickly create and manage customer-centric product and service offerings.
“As manufacturers design and deliver smarter products and
assets, access to real-time business information across networks is critical to
bring new and improved innovations to market faster,” said Thomas Saueressig, Head
of Product Engineering and Member of the Executive Board of SAP. “Bringing together expertise from SAP and Siemens to offer Industry
4.0-enabled business processes allows enterprises to create a digital thread for the entire
product and asset lifecycle. With this end-to-end solution, teams across
the business network can efficiently work together to design and deliver innovative
products productively, profitably and sustainably.”
Going forward, both
SAP and Siemens will be able to offer new solutions that combine their
technologies in order to help companies shorten time to market by leveraging
Industry 4.0-enabled data using intelligent assets and products. This will also
give organizations the benefit of incorporating customer insights into product
development through a comprehensive solution, from product design to service
and asset management. As a first step in the partnership, SAP will sell Siemens
Teamcenter software as the core foundation for product lifecycle collaboration
and product data management and Siemens will sell SAP® Intelligent Asset
Management and SAP Project and Portfolio Management solutions to maximize the
business value for manufacturers and operators across networks. Both companies will collaborate to develop
applications from an end-to-end lifecycle perspective to help customers achieve
a seamless digital thread that improves overall business performance.
“Combining Siemens Teamcenter and SAP
S/4HANA® software provides companies an end-to-end process capability from product
design to decommission,” said Bob Parker, Senior VP of Industry Research at
IDC. “The IT benefits of pre-integration of PLM, ERP, asset management and
supply chain applications and the business benefits from having a more
resilient response to changing market demand make this a compelling
consideration for companies seeking a competitive advantage in the digital
economy.”
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