Use Case: how to Integrate SAP and a SCADA Environment?

One of the challenges that those responsible for Digital Transformation face day by day is the complexity and diversity of available APIs, which must be exploited intensively to connect an increasingly large environment of applications.

Studies show that the number of SaaS tools used by a company often exceeds 40, and almost 30% of these mechanisms are used daily. Applications such as the SAP solution constitute the core of most of a company’s operations.

In this context, organizations that use an ERP such as SAP and want to make the leap to the digitization of their business need to establish bidirectional communication between the ERP and other corporate systems such as sensors, maintenance systems, energy management, etc.

The Integration between SAP and a SCADA Environment

To carry out effective communication between all these elements, companies need to implement a specific solution that they can acquire from third parties or develop and implement it through the internal IT team.

However, the development of in-house tools implies a set of risks that often generate long-term complications in scalability and maintenance. In addition, the growth of these applications can lead to an over-dependence on a team of programmers and opaque software.

To avoid this, companies have the OPC Router solution, which acts as a gateway between SCADA and SAP. With this solution, we can create a bidirectional communication space and establish workflows in a graphical user interface (GUI), which is completely visual and represents the flow of data in real time.

SCADA and SAP are integrated into OPC Router through plugins that act as modules to allow the exchange of information. In fact, OPC Router incorporates different plugins to integrate different devices and applications:

What is OPC Router?

It is a software that is responsible for exchanging information between the different systems of the company, thanks to its ability to acquire and transform data from different sources of information, to multiple destinations in a bidirectional way.

The advanced functions offered by this solution represent a substantial improvement over other solutions that are responsible for the acquisition of company data already existing in the market such as KEPServerEX.

Advantages of SAP integration with OPC Router

Integrating an SAP ERP solution with OPC Router offers various benefits to companies:

• Automates monitoring tasks. It allows information to be transferred to the different connected devices and thus avoid human intervention and on-site supervision, thanks to the integration of a system that brings together in a single place the different elements of control, supervision and planning of the installation.
• Facilitates project management. With the integration of SAP and OPC Router, it is not necessary to be an expert to expand or modify a project, since the tool facilitates the performance of all functions and includes a graphical interface that allows you to control the entire project at a glance, without further complications.
• Optimizes resources. Integrating a SCADA solution with SAP allows you to better leverage the resources of a project and get the most out of each of them. In addition, the implementation of a third-party OPC Router system optimizes the company’s IT resources, since it avoids dedicating the entire team or part of it to developing a custom solution.
• Incentivizing Industry 4.0. Companies that integrate OPC Router with SAP can benefit from all the advantages offered by Industry 4.0, which can be summarized in three: greater productivity, better resource management and real-time decision making.

Companies that want to benefit from the advantages of integrating SAP with a SCADA solution such as OPC Router can do so with Logitek.

Try the demo of the Logitek OPC Router solution

Those companies looking for a tool that allows them to integrate a key business application for organizations such as SAP and a quality SCADA solution such as OPC Router can find it in the Logitek demo.

This is the best solution to improve the supervision and control tasks of all the company’s resources and the most appropriate way to simplify its projects and optimize the performance of all resources.

Logitek offers companies the best SAP integration of OPC Router so that they can take advantage of the benefits of Digital Transformation.