Manufacturing – Innovations 2011 features

Closed-Loop Quality Management

• Improve compliance processes with extended digital signatures
• Extend the audit trail for visibility into all related production processes
• Process defects more efficiently with more flexibility to switch notification types

Efficient Manufacturing Operations for Process Industries

• Improve quality of delivered products
• Enhance production planning accuracy
• Increase visibility into work in process
• Provide better documentation of production completion
• Make production tracking in batch operations more reliable

Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture Support

• Reduce customization and maintenance with out-of-the-box functionality for ERP and plant process integration
• Speed time to value for plant composite applications
• Enable two-way synchronization of ERP and plant data
• Orchestrate processes supported by business logic and data services in the SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) application

Quality Issue Management

• Provide a comprehensive, real-time overview of quality-related activities
• Save process and product costs with flexible tracking of issues and activities with high usability
• Increase competitiveness while ensuring compliance with industry standards
• Solve product quality and warranty issues more efficiently