Case studies for SAP Digital Manufacturing (Extract)
How Kaeser Kompressoren SE combines individual customer products with the highest quality standards
- Customer: Kaeser Kompressoren
- Industry: Maschinenbau
- Application: Efficient and flexible production, digital twin
- Products: SAP ME
Main Benefit: Setting up smart production IT, which must be efficient and at the same time flexible in connection with the use of a digital twin

How Beiersdorf digitalized the production on the path to the smart factory
- Customer: Beiersdorf AG
- Industry: Consumer Products, Process Industry
- Application: Horizontal and vertical Integration, Smart Factory
- Products: SAP MII, SAP MII KPI Add-on
Main Benefit: With complete vertical integration based upon the flexible platform and data hub SAP MII, since 2009, Beiersdorf has created the ideal conditions for a smart factory, which can be flexibly adapted to new customer and production requirements.

Lot Size 1 with SAP ME
- Customer: Festo AG & Co. KG
- Industry: High-Tech, Machinery
- Application: Variant Production
- Products: SAP ME
Main Benefit: Intuitive worker guidance using SAP Manufacturing Execution for an assembly U-line at Festo ensures process security and optimal cycle times.

Back to the Future 4.0 with SAP ME
- Customer: HARMAN Infotainment Division
- Industry: Automotive, Electronic
- Application: MES standardization with SAP
- Products: SAP ME
Main Benefit: The introduction of a new product was taken as an opportunity to define the production process using SAP ME and to implement it as a pilot. For this, an external partner with the relevant SAP ME expertise and best-practice experience was intentionally sought – and found with Trebing + Himstedt. In this way, approximately 85 % of processes could be modeled in standard, and the standard already supported functions which had not been previously available.