SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud

The SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud is a shop floor manufacturing solution that helps production managers and employees with their daily tasks live on the factory floor. It has a close integration with SAP S/4 HANA or SAP ERP, which is where production orders are scheduled, where inventory is supplied, and where following supply chain operations are started and completed.

The primary system for master data such as material, BOM, or routing that will be migrated to SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud is SAP S/4HANA or SAP ER

To give global visibility across all plants while coordinating implementation and monitoring production activities down to the individual work centre, SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud links shop floor equipment to top floor business platforms.

Using a number of open APIs and a selection of extensibility options provided by SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud, partners and clients can customise the solution to meet their own specific needs.

Extensions

With the Digital Manufacturing Cloud, a variety of expansion options is provided.

Business Process Extensions

Every production is unique to each customer. Some processes require further development, such as the ability to link and interface with external systems in order to post or enrich data. Although those external processes or applications have their own logic, they nevertheless need to obtain the business context from DMC, for example, which resource is now being used? and which material is created. After processing the logic, the extension must be able to send the outcome back to DMC for additional processing.

Business procedures can be improved by:

Calls to third-party web services, calls to SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) transactions (new with DMC 2011), and calls to production processes created using the Design Production Processes app within the SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud itself are all examples of extensions and applications created by customers and partners using SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) (new with DMC 2011)

UI Extensions

The worker's interaction with the system is particularly important during manufacturing. For instance, he needs large touchscreen buttons since he is wearing gloves, scanner assistance, or he constantly needs to search up specific product-related information from an external system. SAP Digital Manufacturing offers a variety of choices to give our customers freedom and the greatest user experience possible:

1. POD (\Production Operator Dashboard, user interface for the worker) configuration using the POD Designer App. The production engineer can customise the pre-delivered DMC standard plugins, such as the Data Collection plugin, SFC worklist, etc., to the needs of the worker using the POD Designer.

2. For specific requirements, such as to display additional unique data sent from ERP, create own custom plugins. Once they are enrolled in the Manage Service Registry App, those plugins may be configured and integrated into the POD using the POD Designer. They can be created using any UI technology of choice.

3. Creating a complete SAPUI5 custom application using the public APIs from the SAP API Business Hub in the customer's or partner's PaaS tenant.

Machine Learning Extensions

One of the main goals of the new AI/ML scenario for Visual Inspection was to make it easier to integrate a new machine learning model into the business process in a matter of minutes rather than weeks. Without writing a single line of code, Visual Inspection in SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud enables you to upload a trained machine learning model (also known as Bring Your Own Model) and activate it for use on the shop floor.

But that's not all; SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud also helps collect data quickly and automatically for machine learning model training.

Source: SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud – Ready for Extensions | SAP Blogs