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3 Reviews

A robust platform with innovative drag and drop dashboard capabilities

Rating: 7 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We started using SAP MII as an integration tool between SAP ERP and IoT in conjunction with SAP Plant Connectivity. It was only used by our development department and used to investigate the feasibility of creating dashboards for shop floor users. The objective was to have IoT devices in a warehouse send tag value with MQTT to an interactive dashboard developed in SAP MII.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Using the plant connector and setting up a proper stable connection proved challenging.
  • Defining the tags and subscription aliases in the workbench took a lot of time.
  • Documentation is somewhat outdated and difficult to come by.

Likelihood to Recommend

SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence as a stand-alone platform seems to be quite powerful with a wide range of capabilities and integration options. The integration itself proved to be challenging which was mentioned before. We also had some issues with delays in data queries which resulted in delays of the visual representation on the SSCE dashboards.
VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence
2 years of experience

Bringing visibility to industrial IoT

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We implement SAP MII into our client's landscape as well as integrate it within our own use cases and applications. Mainly, we have been experimenting with dashboard functionality and integrating it with generated OPC data for R&D purposes. MII has allowed us to, at a glance, review and monitor our simulated manufacturing environment and to learn about the technology for future uses.

Pros

  • MII is particularly good at providing and customizing dashboards for quick analysis of industrial IoT data.
  • MII also has built-in analysis functionality to make more sense of all the IoT data being streamed.
  • MII (and ME) are particularly effective at identifying outliers and problems with equipment/processes before they cause delays or other cascading issues. This allows for effective preventative maintenance.

Cons

  • 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).

Likelihood to Recommend

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.
VU
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence
2 years of experience

SAP MII Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII) for Integration with Shop floor machines, PLCs, SCADA, DCS, OPC systems using SAP Plant connectivity module and top floor systems with SAP ERP, production planning, quality management, plant maintenance, warehouse management systems. Also we used intelligence layer for reports, dashboards, OEE, condition based maintenance. Overall MII in combination with ME used as a MES.

Pros

  • Integration with any standard and non standard applications
  • Any custom solutions can be built on top of MII for any manufacturing companies
  • Seamless connectivity with machines

Cons

  • MII is a system to build custom solutions which may not solve industry 4.0 solutions
  • SSCE component is not really a no code low code platform
  • Standard OEE module is very complex to implement

Likelihood to Recommend

Overall MII in combination with ME used as a MES. However not suitable for any new implementations as end of mainstream maintenance for its latest version 15.5 is in 2027.
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence
12 years of experience