Easy as ABC: three industry specialists spill the beans on Smart Manufacturing

Fujitsu / June 16, 2022

Solutions are everywhere.

From increased optimization, greater business agility or less downtime, there’s an improvement at nearly every turn. So, how can manufacturers make sure they choose the right solution for their objectives?

Firstly, enlisting a partner to help guide decisions and enhance performance is essential. With appropriate support, an organization can start to map priorities to challenges. Then, with a clear view of where the business stands in its manufacturing change journey, it’s much easier to see what the future could hold and how the journey can be one of positive change.

This is what makes our approach at Fujitsu, in partnership with SAP, as unique as our customer’s journey. No two organizations are the same, so by understanding how their priorities and challenges work together we can align operational experience, technical expertise and a people-centric approach to unlock true business transformation.

But don’t just take our word for it. Here are three industry perspectives where Fujitsu and SAP have enabled Industry 4.0 – from increased productivity, cost efficiencies and inventory visibility.

Land, sea and sky manufacturing

Aerospace and defense manufacturing systems is labor intensive. On the one hand there’s production engineering, which requires tightly controlled configuration, and on the other there’s the shop floor which must adapt and manage change to continuously improve.
Extending from the oceans to space – through offerings as diverse as ships, industrial turbines, motorcycles and satellites – the need for this customer to establish a seamless flow of information between design and manufacturing via a single solution was critical.
It was clear that activities across the entire workforce needed to be digitized. So, in partnership with Fujitsu, the deployment of the SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing solution took place to create strong process integration.
The results saw enhanced collaboration across departments enabling new insight, reduced IT hardware maintenance costs and new products brought to market faster.
Not only did establishing a better link between production engineering and the shop floor boost productivity, it future-proofed operations to enable the company to react swiftly to any upcoming change with a foundation of digitally connected people across divers functional groups.

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