The Future Factory Initiative at SAP Research

Author

Van Putten, Bart-Jan ; Kuestner, Markus ; Rosjat, Martin

Author_Institution

SAP Res. Center Dresden, Dresden, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

22-25 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The Future Factory Initiative is a joint effort between SAP Research and industrial and academic partner organizations to foster research and development for the manufacturing industry. One of the main efforts is the Future Factory Lab. Based on a scenario for high-variant, discrete manufacturing, the Future Factory applies evolving technologies and the state of the art in automation, hardware-ERP integration, RFID, and user interfaces. This paper outlines notable features of the Future Factory Initiative and the Future Factory Lab.

Keywords

manufacturing systems; research and development; user interfaces; Future Factory Initiative; Future Factory Lab; RFID; SAP Research; hardware-ERP integration; manufacturing industry; research and development; user interfaces; Application software; Containers; Enterprise resource planning; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Production facilities; Radiofrequency identification; Research and development; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation, 2009. ETFA 2009. IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Mallorca

ISSN

1946-0759

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2727-7

Electronic_ISBN

1946-0759

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2009.5347257

Filename

5347257