The first phase of the SAP ME implementation in the Austrian Pilot Factory Industrie 4.0 was completed on October 4th, 2019 and simultaneously with the 10th anniversary celebration of Concircle Management Consulting GmbH. On this day, at the same time as the Go Live project, the project results and highlights were presented to the international guests and several concircle coins were produced as showcase product in the integrated process.
This project was launched in July 2019 with the following goals and was completed in three months through an agile implementation (from conception to Go Live):
1. 100% paperless production
2. Continuous data flow on horizontal and vertical level
3. Digitalization of the automated and manual workstations
The project highlights can be summarized as follows:
- Vertically integrated, automated production
- Integrated SAP EWM (Extended Warehouse Management)
- Control of FTS (driverless transport system)
- Production control with SAP ME
- Automatic Traceability
- Automated CNC Program Management
- Automated tool control
- Quality testing during production
- Integration of Custom-Reporting-UIs
- Simple and mobile CIP process
- Very precise time recording and feedback
- Implementation of the UI5 based concircle Web-Shop
- Integration of Smartwatch into EWM process
More details about the project can be found here: Pilot Factory
