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Our product · SAP BTP · Clean Core
AI-assisted inspections in maintenance.
Clarify first, then inspect.
Inspectors capture photos or videos, the AI suggests a result for each inspection characteristic, the inspector confirms – and the result lands in your SAP S/4HANA checklist via released standard APIs. No Z objects, no made-up limits.
The challenge
Inspections are based on inspection plans in SAP QM, and the maintenance order generates the checklist. The inspector takes a photo, and the AI suggests a result for each characteristic. In practice, this quickly hits its limits:
Solution overview
Reads your inspection plans from SAP, classifies each characteristic and uses them to generate validated AI instructions – so-called skills – which your business department tests and approves.
Guides inspectors through the entire checklist – AI characteristics and manual ones. On smartphone, tablet or PC, right at the equipment.
Step 1 · Analysis run
For each characteristic, Skill Studio reads the short text, selected set and codes, target values and limits, inspection method and master inspection characteristic. If it’s unclear whether a characteristic can be assessed from an image, that is stated – not guessed.
For your inspection plans, you see at a glance where AI helps right away – and where master data maintenance pays off.
If a characteristic isn’t maintained well enough, no skill is created – instead, there’s an entry with a concrete hint, such as the degree of corrosion at which a defect exists. Export as a worklist and CSV.
Image assessability × data quality at a glance. Clicking a number filters the findings list to exactly those characteristics.
After master data maintenance, the delta run reads only what has changed in SAP and shows before and after for each characteristic.
Step 2 · Skills & approval
Step 3 · On-site inspection
Each characteristic is assessed individually and only according to its skill – characteristics don’t influence each other. Up to 8 images or one video per capture, optionally with a text note from the inspector.
For qualitative characteristics, the AI judges: OK, defect or not assessable. For measured values, it only reads: value, unit, legible yes or no.
The code selects the SAP code or rounds the value and compares it with the SAP limits. If the unit doesn’t match or the inspector’s note contradicts the image, there is no suggestion.
Nothing is written to SAP until the end. Whoever works on a checklist locks the inspection lot; if SAP rejects something, the app stops before the usage decision – saving again doesn’t create duplicates.
Guardrails
Released standard APIs only, no Z objects, no enhancements. Skill Studio only reads – it never writes to SAP.
Photos and videos are stored as evidence in the SAP standard DMS – where the inspection lot and notification live, protected by your SAP authorizations. Never in BTP.
Limits and codes come exclusively from SAP. If the master data isn’t sufficient, no skill is created – instead, there’s an entry in the worklist.
Skills are approved by a person. The inspector accepts or corrects every AI suggestion – nothing goes to SAP until they confirm.
Architecture & security
Every SAP access sits in one module that only permits released services – verifiable by searching the code.
Dedicated roles for editing, approving, inspecting and releasing locks. Users who can only edit cannot approve.
No images are stored in BTP. The capture is kept in the SAP DMS, protected by your SAP authorizations.
Principal Propagation is prepared: calls run in SAP under the user who actually performs the inspection.
We deploy Hyperion Inspect to your SAP BTP subaccount – operations and data stay entirely with you.
We host the apps on our SAP BTP and connect your system via the Cloud Connector – with no operating effort on your side.
A measured value can be OK and still have been heading toward its limit for weeks – the temperature of a freezer, for example. Hyperion Inspect calculates a trend line from the last five inspection lots at the same functional location. If it points toward a limit, the inspector sees the history and the remaining margin and can create a notification right away. The assessment itself stays unchanged.
Getting started
Analysis run across your inspection plans with cross table, text coverage and a worklist of characteristics that need master data maintenance.
Stage 1 plus a delta run after your master data maintenance, skills for suitable characteristics and tests in the workbench with your captures.
Stage 2 plus the Checklist App, storage of captures in the SAP DMS and a pilot with your inspectors – then go-live.
FAQ
Characteristics that can be assessed or read from an image and have a clear standard in SAP. That is exactly what the analysis run clarifies up front for your inspection plans – including a worklist showing where master data maintenance pays off.
No. Captures are only processed by the AI service, not stored. As evidence, they are stored in the SAP standard DMS – linked to the inspection record and protected by your SAP authorizations. No images are stored in BTP.
You decide: SAP AI Core, Azure OpenAI or your own LLM, for example via AWS Bedrock. Processing takes place in an EU region. Limits and codes always come from SAP – never from the model.
SAP S/4HANA release 2022 or later as an on-premise or private cloud system with EAM inspection checklists. The connection runs via the SAP Cloud Connector.
No. Hyperion Inspect is fully clean core: no Z objects, no enhancements. All reading and writing takes place exclusively via released standard APIs.
Yes – drones and other image sources can be connected. Their captures are assessed per characteristic just like photos and videos from the device and stored as evidence in SAP. We clarify in the project which devices and interfaces fit your environment.
The app stops before the usage decision. Saving again doesn’t create duplicates. The inspection lot is locked while being edited; others can see who is working on it.
Always a person. Your business department approves skills, and the inspector accepts or corrects every AI suggestion. The app also only suggests the usage decision.
Hyperion Inspect
Tell us which inspection plans you’d like to look at first – we’ll get back to you with a proposal for the analysis run.