Monitor your machine sensors and create alerts once a threshold is exceeded.
Learn from the massive sensor data over time - detect anomalies and predict failures and asset lifetime.
Indicators
Physical objects are often equipped with sensors which monitor a specific physical property such as temperature, pressure etc. Sensors enable you to collect time-series data, and by means of this, detect anomalies and predict failures.
SAP Asset Performance Management (together with SAP IoT and SAP S/4HANA) allows you to work with these physical sensors. The sensors are represented as Indicators in SAP Asset Performance Management.
In SAP Asset Performance Management, a physical object is represented by an equipment or a functional location. The equipment contains one or several Indicators which represent the sensors of the physical object. Functional Locations can also have indicators.
Note
The Indicator of an equipment in SAP Asset Performance Management is directly linked to the Measuring Point of the equipment in SAP S/4HANA.
Alerts
One of the major objectives of SAP Asset Performance Management is to create warnings when certain thresholds are exceeded. Warnings and comparable messages are represented by Alerts which are based on Alert Types.
Alerts notify users of anomalies, potential failures, or indicator threshold violations. Alerts can either be created based on rules, or by alarms raised by equipment.
Rules
With rules, you can leave it up to the system to permanently keep an eye on each and every sensor data point coming in. A rule is the technical representation of simple decision logic that, once evaluated against live data, leads to a decision. In the Rules app, you set up the rules to be applied to incoming values. If a value matches the rule condition, the system triggers an action. With these preparations done, you can rest assured that none of the critical values that you might think go unnoticed, thus making sure that all necessary action can be taken without delay.
Integration with SAP IoT
After an equipment is created and published, it is synchronized with SAP IoT, subsequently, it is also synchronized, and objects are created in SAP BTP Internet of Things. The physical objects with their sensors can be mapped to SAP IoT (Internet of Things): the physical object corresponds to a Device, the sensor is represented as a sensor in SAP IoT.
From SAP IoT, there is an integration to SAP Asset Performance Management: the Device is mapped to a Technical Object, the sensor is mapped to an Indicator.
Watch the demo video to learn more about Indicators in SAP APM.