SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence vs. Opcenter

SAP MII is great at what it's meant to do. It provides insight into the industrial IoT data being generated by a plant/factory and can even provide intelligent analysis as well. However, it is a bit niche and really only needs to be implemented if your use case requires those specific services.

Incentivized

Supports manufacturing where end to end traceability is required and integration between other enterprise products.

Incentivized

• Dashboard creation was made easy through the use of the integrated drag-and-drop SSCE (Self Service Composition Environment).
• The sample SVG files help with creating custom animated SVG objects.
• A wide range of KPIs can be integrated to trigger alerts and alarms.

Incentivized

• Discreet Manufacturing
• Medical device Industry
• Semi conductor Industry
• Electronic Manufacturing Industry

• SAP MII is contained within SAP ME and that can complicate the landscape.
• As with other SAP technologies, the documentation is stored in disparate systems (support, help, notes etc).

Incentivized

• Reports as part of package
• Complete documentation for upgrades
• Quality of product like some of the functionalities

Incentivized

If a proper UI5-based implementation is done, the system works at best if a proper application server and database exist. However, from a customization perspective and an easy-to-implement application-from-scratch perspective, MII is top-notch compared to the other mentioned systems. SAP ME sits on top of SAP MII as a foundation.

Incentivized

Documentation on some of our implementations was lacking. As an example, creating the query that reads the tag is explained through the documentation but this only explains very specific data models. Other models are not explained and take time to debug. Customer support was willing to help and an official note was created after we found some issues with the integration tools.

Incentivized

SAP MII is a robust platform for data visualization and data integration. It isn't very intuitive and has the shortcomings explained throughout the review. It still uses old Java versions which is incompatible with updated versions. The SAP ME and SAP CP provide cloud-based solutions that seem to provide a more innovative approach.

Incentivized

Opcenter best suits for the deseret manufacturing. It allows to customize and configure easily based on the customer need. Opcneter keeps the metada different than the operation data, so that it can be easily put on any database and switching between database is also very easy because of this feature. User friendly Opcneter Portal studio allows easy customization in case if any UI customization is needed. Modeling helps to configure one time master data setup. Designer helps to extend the meta data in case if needed.

• MII is one of the highly successful products in manufacturing space from SAP
• Operations always got benefit out of it from a single system
• Customizations to Meet unique requirements are always possible

Incentivized

• Improved the Manufacturing IT efficiency
• Product Genealogy
• Return Material Traceability