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GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft: GEA and SAP Collaborate to Simplify the Internet of Things

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GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft: GEA and SAP Collaborate to Simplify the
Internet of Things

17.03.2015 / 16:33

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GEA and SAP Collaborate to Simplify the Internet of Things

Düsseldorf/Hannover, March 17, 2015 - SAP SE today announced an Industry
4.0 implementation project with GEA to address condition monitoring and
predictive maintenance. Over the last months, SAP and GEA have been working
together to bring machinery and engineering knowledge to the integrated,
scalable and high-performance cloud offering based on the SAP HANA(R)
software. This announcement was made at CeBIT 2015 being held March 16-20
in Hanover, Germany.

"We at GEA aim at strengthening and further developing our outstanding
market position through continuous innovation," said Jürg Oleas, CEO of
GEA. "This means that we offer state-of-the-art, highly innovative products
that serve as technological pacesetters for the entire market. With this
cooperation and the new SAP solution, we are enhancing the processes of our
customers to a new level of efficiency."

GEA intends to work with SAP on a project to optimize the performance of
its separator and decanter machinery with the SAP(R) Predictive Maintenance
and Service solution, cloud edition. Based on SAP HANA(R) Cloud Platform,
the solution is intended to bring together technology, sensors and machine
data with business processes, applications and practices. The anticipated
outcome of the project aims to reduce structural complexity and increase
operational excellence to help companies reduce cost and foster growth in
existing and new markets.

GEA will use SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service, cloud edition, to help
its remote service technicians monitor the status of machines located at
GEA customer sites and identify unusual trends or machine behavior in real
time. Integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) services of SAP HANA
Cloud Platform will allow for machinery data to be collected. This data can
then be enriched with business information from the SAP Business Suite
software deployed at GEA. With SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service,
cloud edition, GEA intends to offer new innovative services including
modular service-level agreements, warranted availabilities and insurance to