IGZ and United Manufacturing Hub enter into partnership Flexible and simple shopfloor integration for SAP Digital Manufacturing

SAP Digital Manufacturing is increasingly evolving into the central platform for modern cloud-based production processes. Companies face the challenge of efficiently integrating heterogeneous machine landscapes and making production data consistently usable. 

This is where the cooperation comes in: United Manufacturing Hub provides a data platform supporting more than 150 IT and OT protocols, capturing and analyzing real-time data directly at the production line. 

The decisive advantage: UMH transfers this data in a cleansed, contextualized, and cost-efficient manner into the cloud-based SAP landscape. With decades of industry expertise, IGZ is responsible for end-to-end implementation, process integration, and industrialization within the SAP environment.

“Through this partnership, we create a powerful architecture for the digital factory for our customers – from machine integration and SAP Digital Manufacturing to data-driven optimization and AI scenarios”, 
explains Christian Köllner, Head of SAP Manufacturing at IGZ.

“With IGZ, we are delivering a truly end-to-end solution from the shopfloor to the SAP cloud for the first time – scalable, cost-efficient, and without compromising data quality”, 
says Alexander Krüger, Founder and CEO of United Manufacturing Hub.

• Faster implementation of SAP Digital Manufacturing
• Scalable machine integration in weeks instead of months
• Access to context-rich data for production control, analytics and artificial intelligence
• 90% reduced complexity in OT/IT integration projects
• Accelerated implementation of Industry 4.0 and AI use cases

The partnership is aimed at industrial companies from discrete manufacturing (mechanical engineering and component manufacturing, high-tech/electronics, medical technology, automotive industry) and the process industry (food, beverages, consumer goods, chemicals), among others, that want to modernize their production processes and scale them on a cloud basis.

IGZ and United Manufacturing Hub are planning joint customer projects, reference architectures and the expansion of best practices relating to SAP Digital Manufacturing and data-driven production platforms. Initial joint customer projects include HiPP.

Row 1: Alexander Krüger (Founder and Managing Director UMH), Niklas Hebborn (Managing Director UMH), Mateusz Warda (Head of Value Engineering UMH), Sebastian Klaszka (Deputy Head of Sales SAP Manufacturing IGZ), Christian Köllner (Director SAP Manufacturing IGZ)
Row 2: Andreas Busch (Head of Sales SAP Manufacturing IGZ), Andreas Artinger (Deputy Director SAP Manufacturing IGZ), Martin Haas (Project Manager SAP Manufacturing IGZ)

United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) is an open-source platform for industrial data management. UMH connects the shopfloor with IT systems, structures data within a unified namespace, and enables manufacturers to quickly build scalable digital and AI applications. The Cologne-based company is backed by international investors and serves customers in both the process and discrete manufacturing industries, including companies such as Böllhoff and HiPP.

More information at www.umh.app

IGZ, THE SAP ENGINEERS, headquartered in Falkenberg, Bavaria, delivers tailored solutions for the digital supply chain based on SAP standard software. The focus is on end-to-end digitalization and optimization of logistics and production-related processes.

In the production environment, IGZ implements projects in both discrete manufacturing and the process industry, supporting companies in their digital transformation through the use of SAP Digital Manufacturing (SAP DM).

The portfolio is complemented by powerful SAP solutions for intralogistics and transportation logistics, based on SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), SAP Material Flow System (SAP MFS), SAP Logistics Management (SAP LGM), and SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM). As an SAP EWM general contractor, IGZ also assumes responsibility for the holistic planning and realization of complete intralogistics systems.