Hannover Messe: What Can AI Do for Manufacturing?
SAP News, Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
At this year's Hannover Messe trade fair, SAP and its partners showed how they are embedding artificial intelligence (AI) in their products to help companies achieve new levels of excellence in manufacturing and other industries.
The glass bottles on the high-speed filling line made quiet clinking sounds as they sped around the bend of the track. The visitors to the SAP booth at the internationally renowned industrial trade fair were waiting for the moment when an optical sensor, using AI support, spotted the bottle that was only three-quarters full and kicked it out of the line and into a defects bay. 'This system has a capacity of 6,400 bottles per hour,' said a grinning Ben Hughes from SAP's Solution & Innovation Experience team. 'In comparison, the original system from our partner Krones can fill 50,000 bottles, but that would be much too loud here at the trade fair booth.'