Rakesh Gandhi, the SAP vice president who oversees the multinational business software giant's Industry 4.0 Center at its U.S. offices in Newtown Square, Pa. The center helps clients, including large manufacturers, figure out how to use software to automate production and integrate it into supply, accounting, marketing, and sales.in Lenoir, N.C., got a call from the Atrium Health hospital group in flooded Asheville.
They had seen how this could work on a late summer visit to the Industry 4.0 Center, a model factory complex at Exela’s main business software supplier, SAP, at its glass-walled U.S. headquarters in The typical cost for SAP’s digital manufacturing execution system includes an annual subscription fee of around $100,000 — but also an outlay of at least $300,000 worth of new hardware to make it run, according to a June 2004 study by International Data Corp. Users could expect 10% productivity savings — plus a tripling of their profitability over three years, IDC added.
But with its suburban Philadelphia location near the center of the Northeastern United States, the Newtown Square center expanded last year from a smaller facility. It’s now about 8,000 square feet, roughly the size of a Super Does all this automation destroy jobs? Exela said it’s been hiring even as it’s been automating production, because overall sales are up.
There are handheld and wearable scanners from Illinois-based Zebra. There are robotic carriers from a Danish company, Universal Robot, mounted with cameras from based-in-Germany Asentics; Mobile Industrial Robots from MiR, another Danish company; and a “hands-free” maintenance system using Germany-based Frontline’s TeamViewer software and Washington State-based RealWare’s Navigator headsets.
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