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Asset Performance Management (APM) is an evolving software category that supports business processes, workflows, data capture, analytics, and optimization to improve production availability, reliability and output.

When you examine SAP’s Perfect Plant initiative (there’s an overview in my earlier post), you’ll find that part of the journey to better alignment of production performance with enterprise objectives is concerned with focusing attention on three key areas: asset performance, operational scheduling and planning, and manufacturing execution.

Recently, I attended the SAP Adaptive Manufacturing Summit in San Francisco, CA. From my perspective, one of the more interesting topics discussed, and the subject of several presentations, was the “Perfect Plant” initiative, introduced by SAP earlier this year.