The top articles in January 2022
Obstacles and opportunities characterize the top 10 most-read articles in January. Click through the obstacles in companies and find out what opportunities the year 2022 has in store.
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Obstacles and opportunities characterize the top 10 most-read articles in January. Click through the obstacles in companies and find out what opportunities the year 2022 has in store.

In a recent SAP Concur study, employees of German SMEs were asked what slows them down in their day-to-day work and prevents them from carrying out important tasks. The top 10 as a picture gallery.
Connecting a production cell to the cloud during ongoing production and providing it with all the features of a smart factory: Kuka has now realized this goal with partners from the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance.
New normality in manufacturing
Smart manufacturing and companies are often associated with new technologies such as artificial intelligence or robotic process automation. However, many forget that digitalization must first help employees.

The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance now welcomes two heavyweights from the IT and OT sector to its ranks: Microsoft and Siemens. Since the alliance was founded at the Hannover Messe 2019, the number of members has now grown to almost 80 companies.
What is behind the organization
Decentralized data processing at the transition from production to the IT world - the Edgecross Consortium from Asia has been dedicated to this topic since the end of 2017. But what is behind this organization and what are its goals?

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The limits of digitalization and what the pandemic teaches us. How did the early warning systems work? Have the hype topics such as networks, AI, big data and blockchain helped?
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SAP S/4HANA Asset Management for resource scheduling. In this web session, you will learn how SAP can help you gain visibility into your maintenance backlog and available capacity for current and upcoming maintenance activities.
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To be competitive in terms of customer agility, discrete manufacturers, especially in mechanical engineering, must be able to quickly adapt design changes in the production processes.
What an October! The economic indicators are pointing upwards, unemployment figures are falling. And then: another full stop! - One effect of this whole dilemma: the topic of digitalization has never been as present in companies as it is now. A review for you.