JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #142 - September/October 2021 - 5

«Manufacturers have realized they must increase their flexibility and resiliency»
to manufacturing, it is clear that digital,
cloud-based solutions are the future.
Plataine's unique AI capabilities, combined
with core solutions from SAP,
can help deliver significant efficiency
and productivity benefits to our customers.
Plataine,
through the partnership with SAP, targets large manufacturers as well as mid-size and smaller suppliers
supply of parts/components
- Social distancing on the shop floor
- Employee shortages due to lockdowns
and quarantines
- Increase in costs
related to raw
material and logistics
All in all, manufacturers have
realized they must
increase
their
flexibility and resiliency in the face
of such challenges, occurring now or
potentially again in the future. This
has led to an acceleration of digital
transformation and the adoption of
digitization on the production floor
and in supply chains. In fact, in many
ways this is very similar to what we
experienced in corporate offices or
our personal lives.
Plataine's technology complements
the SAP offering by addressing manufacturer
needs to meet the highest
levels of productivity and efficiency.
What key benefits will this global
solution offer to composite materials
professionals?
M.E.: Increased production flexibility,
especially given the new challenges
presented by COVID:
- Material/cost savings
- Reduced rework and scrap
- Increased production automation
and visibility
- Equipment optimization and improved
OEE
- Defect correlation analysis that
improves quality
- Data-driven decisions
The composite materials industry is
very heterogenous, as it brings together
workshops, start-ups, SME and
major industrial players. What main
targets are you aiming for with your
solution? Are some application sectors
more promising than others?
A.B.A.: Plataine,
through
the
partnership with SAP, targets large
manufacturers as well as mid-size and
smaller suppliers. Our cloud solution
allows complete scalability and serves
manufacturing organizations of various
sizes with one or multiple production
sites.
Plataine provides a solution for
time-sensitive equipment and tool
management by automatically monitoring
material exposure times for
quality control purposes, to prevent
waste and rework.
The focus is on composites manufacturing
industries, for example:
- Aerospace and defence
- Automotive and transportation
- Wind blades
- Industrial manufacturing
Do you consider that the extended
SAP Manufacturing could accelerate
democratization of Industry 4.0 factory
organization?
M.E.: Yes, definitely. When it comes
As a field of research in constant
evolution, what developments on AI
as applied to materials are you following?
What opportunities have you
identified in the short/medium term ?
A.B.A.: The focus is on decision
workflows which replace data workflows.
In
addition, the Plataine solution
suite is based on proactive intelligence,
proactively detecting issues
(such as ETL, delays, defects, etc.),
predicting the outcome and suggesting
recommended actions to
prevent the problem before it occurs.
Last, but not least, analytics run on
big data detecting correlations and
assisting managers to determine root
cause analyses.
What are the next steps in the
collaboration between SAP and
Plataine?
M.E.: Applying the solution within
different industries; improving and
optimizing integration between the
platforms and the value we bring to
our customers, based on the feedback
received from our markets.
More information:
www.sap.com/products/execution-mes.html
www.plataine.com
N°142
September - October 2021 / jec composites magazine
5
SAP MES helps digitize manufacturing
processes and together with Plataine
provides a great partnership based on
cost-effective, high-quality Industry 4.0
technologies, making them accessible
and enabling quick deployment.
Plataine's cloud solutions bring advanced,
AI-based solutions to more
manufacturers and make AI and I4.0
accessible to the mass market.
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