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MII Defined
Manufacturing integration and intelligence (MII) is an application to synchronize manufacturing operations with back-office business processes and standardized data. It is a data hub between ERP and operational applications that is a workflow to identify problems in production performance. The Internet of Things (IoT) provides intelligence and visibility in real time to tightly integrate manufacturing and operations. MII provides analytics and analysis to review overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
The main components of MII are on-premise and private cloud deployment, predefined content integration with SAP S/4HANA, local and central KPIs for equipment effectiveness, and in memory big data analysis.
MII Defined
Manufacturing integration and intelligence (MII) is an application to synchronize manufacturing operations with back-office business processes and standardized data. It is a data hub between ERP and operational applications that is a workflow to identify problems in production performance. The Internet of Things (IoT) provides intelligence and visibility in real time to tightly integrate manufacturing and operations. MII provides analytics and analysis to review overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
The main components of MII are on-premise and private cloud deployment, predefined content integration with SAP S/4HANA, local and central KPIs for equipment effectiveness, and in memory big data analysis.
SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII)
Key Capabilities of SAP MII include:
- Centralized Plant Information: View of plant resources with a catalog to arrange shop floor assets in a hierarchal structure, maintain master data, and incorporate information from sensors and business users.
- Streamlined Energy Monitoring and Analysis: Simplify the analysis of energy resources across the plant information catalog, from buildings to manufacturing networks.
- Enhanced Overall Equipment Effectiveness: Identify the root causes for equipment down time, efficiency loss, and low quality on various hierarchy levels by viewing them in a business context.
- Focused Manufacturing Analytics: Increase insights with in-memory platform for cross-data store analysis, statistical process control, predictive analytics, and storage for big data.
- Customized User Information: Role-based production data on desktop or mobile device with dashboards.
- Integrated Business Processes: Connect intelligent business processes to production and extend integration to device connections.
Benefits are:
- Increased OEE to identity equipment down time.
- Integration between the shop floor and ERP applications.
- Process orchestration of quality management processes by specific customers.
- Platform universality for rapid adoption by other manufacturing processes.
Vendor partners to support your manufacturing digital intelligence include: Pillirio, Dataxstream, and SAP.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders are:
- Lion Improves Levels of Integration and Automation with SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII). Read the case study about how Lion improved manufacturing automation in its plants.
- Sappi Limited Gains Real-Time Visibility into Production Costs with SAP MII. Review this article to see how improvements in efficiency were made by consolidating data across multiple manufacturing systems.
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Leveraging Technology to Address Automotive Industry ChallengesJul 19, 2021 — By Kumar Singh, Research Director, Automation & Analytics, SAPinsider Automotive- An industry prone to challenges The automotive industry is one of the most prominent industries in the world of manufacturing. Cassia and Matteo quote in their bestselling book “The Economics of Cars”: “The history of the manufacturing industry and the history of the automotive industry […]
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Lion Improves Levels of Integration and Automation with SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII)Feb 19, 2020 — This research brief examines how Lion improved automation and IT/OT integration in its manufacturing plants. In Lion’s case, the company digitized and automated a manufacturing plant in New Zealand, but a best of-breed strategy for all their enterprise solutions had left them with dozens of different IT solutions and a complicated organic IT architecture that its developers had taken as far as it could go. Lion decided to go with a holistic SAP suite: a new deployment of SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors solutions, SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain (SAP IBP), and SAP SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII).
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Sappi Limited Gains Real-Time Visibility into Production Costs with SAP MIIJan 6, 2016 —
Sappi Limited has grown to become a leading global producer and supplier of dissolving wood pulp, paper pulp, and paper products — with an expanded system landscape to match. Its Southern Africa division recognized an opportunity to improve efficiency by consolidating the data spread across its multiple manufacturing systems. Learn how Sappi Southern Africa used SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence to gain increased visibility into its production costs by integrating its manufacturing data.
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How to Integrate Enterprise Systems and an MES Using SAP MIIApr 29, 2015 — Learn how to develop a composite application in SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) by mashing up data from ERP and a manufacturing execution system (MES). See how to leverage message services and business logic services for ERP and MES integration. Key Concept The information required for manufacturing execution may come from different systems […]
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How to Use Manufacturing Data Objects to Develop Composite Applications in SAP MIIJan 26, 2015 — Organizations often come across situations while implementing a solution using SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) in which they want to store the relevant data and persist it locally in the SAP MII system. One reason is that data comes from many systems, and you can save this combined data in SAP MII and […]
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What You Need to Know About SAP xMII to Enable Adaptive ManufacturingNov 1, 2006 — Learn about SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (xMII) and see how you can use it to improve your manufacturing processes. Through several real-world examples, see how xMII helps your operation monitoring and control, quality management, and manufacturing synchronization. Then, take a look at the technology behind xMII. Key Concept SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and […]
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