Extending SAP Digital Manufacturing with Azure

Introduction

Welcome to 2024! In episode 174 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about extending SAP Digital Manufacturing with Azure. Martin Raepple and Bastian Ulke join us to demo a visual inspection use-case that enhances the standard SAP Digital Manufacturing scenarios.

Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode174

Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:

• Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
• Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
• Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/

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Summary created by AI

Key Topics:

• Introduction and overview of SAP digital manufacturing with edge integration: Holger, Martin and Bastian explain the idea and benefits of using Microsoft custom vision service to enhance the production process and quality control with SAP digital manufacturing solution
• Architecture and implementation details of the integration scenario: Martin and Bastian show the components and steps involved in the integration, such as API management, Azure functions, event hubs, blob storage, and custom vision service. They also demonstrate how to use Terraform to automate the infrastructure setup and how to customize the production operator dashboard
• Demo of the visual inspection process and results: Martin and Bastian run the production process and show how the camera picture is sent to the custom vision service for analysis and how the results are displayed on the SAP digital manufacturing dashboard. They also discuss the possibility of retraining the model based on the operator feedback and the option of deploying the extension on the edge

• Extending SAP Digital Manufacturing with Azure, Part I: Reference architecture
• Extending SAP Digital Manufacturing with Azure, Part II: Applying the reference architecture to a visual inspection scenario
• Code for SAP DM Visual Inspection extension on Microsoft Azure

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:20 Introducing Martin & Bastian
• 2:45 What is SAP Digital Manufacturing, SAP DMC
• 5:05 Visual Inspection with Azure AI Custom vision
• 9:20 Visual Inspection Solution Architecture
• 19:05 Asynchronous communication
• 20:10 Authentication
• 22:40 Process Designer
• 26:30 Setup via terraform
• 24:40 Looking at BTP Destination
• 28:50 Custom Vision Service
• 31:40 Azure Function
• 34:00 Triggering a visual inspection
• 40:55 Retraining the model
• 41:40 Reference Architecture & Blog Posts
• 44:00 Latency & performance implications