A robust platform with innovative drag and drop dashboard capabilities
Rating: 7 out of 10
IncentivizedUse 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- Documentation is somewhat outdated and difficult to come by.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.