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Guidance for Amazon Lookout for Vision with SAP Quality Management

Overview

This Guidance helps automate the integration of computer vision-based inspection into existing quality management workflows or business processes in SAP. It uses Amazon Lookout for Vision to send defect notifications to SAP quality management, improving first pass yield (FPY) and rolled throughput yield (RTY). This Guidance overcomes the limitations and inaccuracies associated with manual inspection of products, improving overall customer satisfaction.

How it works

This architecture diagram shows how to monitor product quality using services and features such as Amazon Lookout for Vision and SAP Quality Management.

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Well-Architected Pillars

The architecture diagram above is an example of a Solution created with Well-Architected best practices in mind. To be fully Well-Architected, you should follow as many Well-Architected best practices as possible.

Serverless services, such as Amazon S3, DynamoDB, and Lambda use AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch to log and analyze application metrics. You can also send Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs to CloudWatch to analyze packet flow from network interfaces.  

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Use Secrets Manager with key rotation policies to store authentication information related to SAP. You can encrypt data at rest using customer-managed AWS server-side keys.

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You can independently monitor each architecture layer and components with CloudWatch key performance indicators (KPIs). CloudWatch also helps you enable automated resolution for issues that arise using managed services. 

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Considering this is an asynchronous workload, the cold start latency of an individual Lambda function is less significant than the overall performance in aggregate. You can filter Amazon S3 events on prefix and suffix patterns, enabling you to filter on only certain object keys. The SAP BTP API follows the best practices from SAP for a performance optimized CRUD operation into the SAP backend.

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With serverless technologies, you pay only for the resources you use. Using Lookout for Vision, you can increase or decrease your defect detection capacity by requesting or removing additional inference units, depending on the demands of your manufacturing line. 

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Serverless services help you you maximize overall resource utilization, because compute is only used as needed. The efficient use of serverless resources reduces the overall energy required to operate the workload. You can also use the AWS Billing Conductor carbon footprint tool to calculate and track the environmental impact of the workload over time at an account-, Region-, and service-level.

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Disclaimer

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References to third-party services or organizations in this Guidance do not imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation between Amazon or AWS and the third party. Guidance from AWS is a technical starting point, and you can customize your integration with third-party services when you deploy the architecture.