Perfect Plant centre of IT excellence to open at SAP Walldorf

Eric Krapf, TCS’ head of engineering and industrial services in Europe, says it’s all about enabling manufacturers to fast track innovative solutions, particularly involving collaborative environments. “The Perfect Plant initiative is a model of how companies can derive maximum efficiencies by integrating shopfloor solutions with their ERP systems,” he says. “[it] combines the strengths of SAP solutions in manufacturing and TCS’ engineering expertise in shopfloor systems and solutions, to bring adaptive manufacturing closer to reality for global manufacturers.” The new Center of Excellence will be operated by a global virtual team from TCS and SAP, and Patrick Brett, director of SAP adaptive manufacturing at TCS, says it will showcase SAP manufacturing applications and partners’ composite applications working in a simulated plant environment. Customers, he says, will be able to harness TCS’ expertise to improve plant efficiencies, while lowering total cost of ownership of their manufacturing infrastructure. “The ‘Perfect Plant’ Centre of Excellence affords exposure to world-class prototyping facilities for manufacturing customers of SAP and TCS across EMEA,” says Brett. “This is just the latest stage in a very significant global investment by TCS, and there is much more to come.” “The partnership between SAP and TCS is truly global, which, as well as being important to our customers and larger international manufacturing companies, provides significant efficiency and cost advantages in the re-use and deployment of technology-enabled manufacturing best practices,” adds Simon Pollard, vice president of Manufacturing Operations and Execution for SAP. “The opening of the ‘Perfect Plant’ Centre of Excellence in Germany represents another strong step forward in our collaborative abilities to share the benefits available to companies in following a roadmap for the ‘Perfect Plant’.”