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From Shop Floor to Smart Factory - SAP DM Expert Insights
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The IndX Expert Insights Series is an on-demand video collection where IndX specialists share practical demonstrations and walkthroughs showing how SAP Digital Manufacturing (SAP DM) is applied on the shop floor. Drawing on IndX’s experience delivering digital manufacturing solutions across regulated and discrete industries, each session focuses on a specific capability and how it supports real operational needs such as operator training, process compliance, quality management and accurate data capture. As an SAP partner, IndX works with manufacturers to deploy and extend SAP Digital Manufacturing within their production environments, helping move from paper-based processes to structured, digital execution through embedded controls, validations and real-time data collection.
Below is a selection of videos from the IndX Expert Insights Series, each focusing on a specific SAP Digital Manufacturing capability or use case.
In this episode, Michael Jewson, Senior Solution Architect at IndX, demonstrates how SAP Digital Manufacturing helps strengthen operator safety and compliance by ensuring only certified personnel can handle specific equipment or materials. The session highlights how digital certification controls help reduce risk and improve oversight on the shop floor.
This episode shows how SAP Digital Manufacturing supports accurate weigh and dispense processes by integrating directly with shop floor scales. The walkthrough demonstrates how manufacturers can reduce manual entry errors, support regulatory requirements and capture material usage data in real time.
This session demonstrates how system checks and electronic signatures within SAP Digital Manufacturing strengthen process control and operator accountability. By embedding data capture and sign-off directly into the workflow, manufacturers can improve traceability and audit readiness.
In this episode, SAP Digital Manufacturing is used to show how operators can record non-BOM components while following controlled, up-to-date digital work instructions. The session highlights revision control, accurate material capture and improved traceability during production.
This episode focuses on logging nonconformances using automated data collection within SAP Digital Manufacturing. By applying business rules and predefined codes, manufacturers can capture out-of-limit values in real time and support continuous improvement initiatives.
This session demonstrates how SAP Digital Manufacturing standardizes the closure of nonconformances on the shop floor. Guided workflows help ensure issues are properly documented, resolved, and traceable, supporting consistent quality management practices.
In this episode, SAP Digital Manufacturing’s Device History Record Report is used to demonstrate how manufacturers can consolidate product and process data into a single, digital record. The session highlights how digital DHR reporting supports quality assurance, compliance and traceability.
In this episode, SAP Digital Manufacturing is used to demonstrate how manufacturers capture real-time production data to calculate the performance component of OEE. The session highlights how standard rates, actual output and available production time come together to expose performance losses on the shop floor.
In parts 2-4 of the OEE topic, our IndX expert will discuss OEE quality, availability and reporting.
In this episode, SAP Digital Manufacturing is used to demonstrate how manufacturers capture yield, scrap and standard rate data in real time to calculate the quality component of OEE. The session highlights how comparing good production time to total production time exposes quality losses on the shop floor.
In parts 3-4 of the OEE topic, our IndX expert will discuss OEE availability and reporting.
In this episode, SAP Digital Manufacturing is used to demonstrate how manufacturers capture loading time, runtime and downtime in real time to calculate the availability component of OEE. The session highlights how distinguishing between scheduled and unscheduled downtime exposes availability losses on the shop floor. In part 4 of the OEE topic, our IndX expert will discuss OEE reporting.
In this episode, SAP Digital Manufacturing is used to demonstrate how performance, quality and availability data are combined into real-time OEE dashboards and reports. The session highlights how downtime, speed loss and quality issues can be analyzed across machines, work centers and plants to identify bottlenecks. This concludes the OEE topic in the IndX Expert Series.
In this episode, SAP Digital Manufacturing is used to demonstrate how master data and production orders are integrated from SAP S/4HANA into the MES layer. The session highlights the integration architecture, IDoc-based data flows and how ERP master data is enriched in SAP DM with work instructions, data collection parameters and resource definitions. This establishes the foundation for seamless shop floor execution.
In this episode, SAP Digital Manufacturing is used to demonstrate how production orders are executed on the shop floor using the Production Operator Dashboard (POD). The session highlights real-time SFC tracking, machine status validation, digital 3D work instructions, automated component consumption and configurable data collection for quality and process parameters. It also showcases routing scenarios including rework and scrap handling, illustrating how SAP DM enables transparent, paperless and traceable manufacturing execution.
In this episode, SAP Digital Manufacturing demonstrates how machine integration via OPC UA enables real-time data collection directly within the Assembly Work Center POD. The session highlights secure connectivity between shop floor equipment and the cloud, live torque and temperature capture, automatic attachment of machine data to the SFC and visibility through SFC reporting. It illustrates how SAP DM transforms raw machine signals into traceable production intelligence to improve quality, reduce scrap and enhance operational transparency.
In this episode, SAP Digital Manufacturing demonstrates how quality inspections are executed within the Test Work Center Production Operator Dashboard (POD). The session highlights configuration of inspection characteristics, operator entry of dimensional measurements and visual inspection results, validation against inspection limits and structured defect recording. It also shows how nonconformances are logged and automatically routed to corrective or rework operations. The scenario illustrates how SAP DM integrates shop floor execution with quality management to improve traceability, accelerate defect resolution and maintain production quality.
In this episode, SAP Digital Manufacturing demonstrates how a Test Work Center Production Operator Dashboard (POD) can be connected to shop floor test equipment using the MQTT messaging protocol. The session highlights machine connectivity through an MQTT broker, automated resource status updates from testing devices and real-time detection of machine-driven nonconformances. It also shows how test results can automatically trigger scrap execution and synchronize production data with ERP systems. The scenario illustrates how SAP DM integrates machine signals directly into shop floor execution to reduce manual input, improve data accuracy and enable real-time visibility into testing operations and equipment status.
In this episode, SAP Digital Manufacturing demonstrates how repair operations can be executed and managed through a Repair Work Center Production Operator Dashboard (POD). The session highlights structured handling of nonconformances through guided repair steps, digital work instructions and operator-driven decision processes. It also shows how defects can be evaluated to determine rework, return to production or scrapping, while maintaining real-time tracking and full traceability through SFC reporting and production logs. The scenario illustrates how SAP DM standardizes repair workflows on the shop floor to improve quality control, reduce manual effort and ensure complete visibility into product history and nonconformance handling.
In this episode, SAP Digital Manufacturing demonstrates how packaging operations can be executed and managed through a Packing Work Center Production Operator Dashboard (POD). The session highlights structured handling of packing processes in dynamic environments, including packing individual SFCs into boxes and grouping them into carriers with full traceability. It also shows how packing workflows can be automated through customized POD configurations, reducing manual effort and improving accuracy. The scenario illustrates how SAP DM connects packaging with logistics by enabling automatic creation and execution of logistics orders, ensuring real-time visibility, efficiency and end-to-end traceability across the production and distribution process.
