The goal of the ONIQ partnership is to close a structural gap that has blocked industrial manufacturers from getting full value from their process transformation programs: the shopfloor.

SAP Signavio provides end-to-end visibility across enterprise processes. But for manufacturers in automotive, machinery, electronics, and aerospace, the most critical execution layer has always sat outside that picture. The factory floor, where production orders run, machines operate, and throughput is won or lost, has remained a blind spot. This partnership changes that.

The Whitespace

Process transformation programs in manufacturing stall for a specific reason: corporate improvement initiatives cannot be traced down to their root cause in production.

A process owner can see a bottleneck in an order-to-delivery process inside Signavio. But the root cause is often on the shopfloor: a machine running below OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) target, a WIP (Work in Progress) build-up between two production stages, a cycle time deviation on a specific work centre, an unplanned downtime event, or a production order sequence that nobody above the factory floor has ever had visibility into. None of this data reaches enterprise tools today.

The result: transformation leaders are making decisions about production with the equivalent of a weather forecast, accurate at the aggregate level, but blind to what is actually happening on the ground at any given moment. KPIs are tracked in separate systems, owned by separate teams, measured in machine cycles, shift handovers, and downtime codes that enterprise tools have never learned to speak. Strategies stay abstract. What actually changes on the floor remains unmeasured. Until now.

The challenge runs deeper than data access alone. Even where shopfloor data exists, traditional process mining outputs like process flow diagrams and BPMN models are not the native language of production teams. Shopfloor managers think in Value Stream Maps: material flows, WIP buffers, takt time, push/pull signals, and Kaizen cycles. Closing the shopfloor whitespace means bridging not just the data layer but the conceptual language of the people who run the floor.

Introducing ONIQ

ONIQ is a Manufacturing Excellence platform that brings AI and Lean Manufacturing methodology together to give industrial operations teams continuous visibility into their production processes. ONIQ automatically reconstructs a live digital twin of value streams from existing machine, order, and supply chain data, without manual modelling, data science expertise, or complex IT projects. They call it “The Lean Copilot.”

ONIQ combines four core capabilities. A Digital Value Stream continuously maps actual material flows across all production stages in real time: the data-driven equivalent of a Value Stream Map, updated automatically rather than drawn in a workshop. Lean Analytics identifies bottlenecks, WIP build-up, and deviations from targets continuously, rather than through periodic workshops. Production AI Agents monitor operations proactively and surface issues before they compound. And Value Stream Simulation lets teams model the impact of production changes before committing to them. The platform connects to any ERP, MES, or shopfloor data collection system, regardless of vendor.

Underpinning ONIQ's approach is object-centric process mining, purpose-built for the multi-object nature of shopfloor data. Traditional process mining follows a single case through a process. On the shopfloor, a production order simultaneously involves machines, materials, workers, and logistics, all interacting in parallel. Object-centric process mining captures this complexity natively, which is why ONIQ can model shopfloor reality where standard process mining tools cannot.

ONIQ's industrial customers have achieved results including +20% OEE improvement during ramp-up, -50% throughput time reduction, and +10% efficiency gains in assembly processes.

It is precisely this depth of shopfloor intelligence, grounded in Lean methodology and real production data, that SAP Signavio's manufacturing customers have been asking for. As Alessandro Paolo Manzi, VP Head of SAP Signavio Product Management, puts it:

“Manufacturing customers have asked for a way to extend process intelligence and transformation management into their production environment with the level of specificity that this domain demands. The partnership with ONIQ provides exactly that, giving our joint customers a foundation for decisions grounded in real production logic.”

What This Enables in Practice

Consider a Supply Chain Excellence initiative running in SAP Signavio. With the planned integration, process owners will be able to correlate bottlenecks identified in SAP Signavio Process Intelligence with shopfloor event data from ONIQ, in the same view.

What today requires a separate workshop with the manufacturing team, or a manual data export and reconciliation exercise, will be surfaced automatically. A deviation identified in Signavio will be traceable directly to a production order sequence, a machine state, or a logistics handover in ONIQ. Root cause analysis that currently takes days will become part of a single working session.

This is the intended integration for the Supply Chain Excellence use case: the data layer that connects enterprise process intelligence with what the factory actually does.

How It Will Connect

The integration is designed to be bidirectional. In the planned architecture, shopfloor mining data from ONIQ will flow into SAP Signavio Process Intelligence. Improvement actions and insights from ONIQ's AI agents will surface in SAP Signavio Transformation Manager, linked directly to the strategic initiatives they affect. Strategic priorities from SAP Signavio Transformation Manager will feed back into ONIQ's continuous improvement features, keeping shopfloor work anchored to enterprise direction.

Strategic Impact

• End-to-end process visibility: from strategic priorities defined in SAP Signavio Transformation Manager down to shopfloor execution, in one connected view
• Faster root cause analysis: shopfloor event data correlated with process KPIs automatically, reducing investigation time from days to a single session
• Supply Chain Excellence enabled: the missing data layer for manufacturers running order-to-delivery and supply chain improvement programs in Signavio
• Live feedback loop for transformation initiatives: every initiative becomes traceable to real operational outcomes, not just process documentation
• Broader transformation scope: industrial verticals including automotive, machinery, electronics, and aerospace can now bring shopfloor processes into their business transformation management programs

Learn More

ONIQ is available as a PartnerEdge Build Partner and is currently onboarding to the SAP Store. Once listed, the ONIQ solution will be discoverable directly from the SAP Store for organizations looking to extend their SAP Signavio investment into manufacturing operations. In the meantime, visit oniq.com to explore their capabilities or reach out to SAP Signavio Suite and Ecosystem Product Management to learn how this partnership fits your transformation program.