SaaS for Smart Manufacturing 2025

Manufacturing leaders are standardizing on a hybrid architecture: reliable, real‑time control at the edge and a multi‑tenant SaaS control plane for visibility, optimization, and continuous improvement across sites. Platforms ingest IIoT/PLC/SCADA data, unify it with MES/ERP/QMS, and power closed‑loop use cases—predictive quality, constraint‑aware scheduling, energy optimization, autonomous maintenance, and traceability—governed for security, sovereignty, and audit. … Read more

SaaS vs. Traditional ERP: The Next Decade

ERP is no longer a single, immovable monolith. Over the next decade, core finance, supply, and HR will keep consolidating in SaaS suites for speed, upgrades, and ecosystem leverage—while specialized, differentiating processes break out into composable services that extend or sit alongside the core. Traditional on‑prem ERP will persist in latency‑ or sovereignty‑constrained pockets, but … Read more

SaaS and Robotics: Managing Automated Workforces

Robots deliver value when they operate as coordinated fleets—not isolated pilots. SaaS provides the control plane to manage heterogeneous robots at scale: onboarding and identity, mission scheduling, traffic/orchestration, health monitoring, OTA updates, data governance, safety and compliance, and integrations with WMS/MES/ERP. The winning pattern is hybrid: reliable, safety‑critical autonomy at the edge, with cloud services … Read more