Industrial Application Software (IAS), a global player in the enterprise software sector, has been honored with the Gold Award in the “Sustainable Smart Factory” category at the Factory Innovation Awards held in Germany. This prestigious award highlights Canias’s internationally recognized approach, which transforms sustainability into a measurable, traceable, and manageable performance domain within production processes through its ERP, IoT, and big data capabilities.
At this year’s Factory Innovation Awards in Germany, which evaluates innovative solutions in production technologies, the Gold Award in the “Sustainable Smart Factory” category was granted to IAS, one of the leaders in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market. The company’s integrated enterprise software platform, Canias, received this accolade for its structure that handles sustainability data in integration with ERP and business processes, its architecture that brings real-time data flow into manufacturing processes, and the comprehensive traceability it offers to companies.
The award received by IAS demonstrates that sustainability has evolved beyond a periodically reported output for manufacturing companies into a strategic success factor at the core of operational decisions. By consolidating various data layers—such as production, energy, processes, machine status, and material flow—on a single platform, Canias enables companies to manage resource utilization, energy consumption, and production efficiency in a more holistic manner.
“Sustainable production becomes manageable with the right data architecture”
In his statement following the award, Can Hakan Karabiber, Deputy Chairman & CEO at IAS, emphasized that sustainability and technology are now two fundamental agendas that must be addressed together. “Sustainable production cannot become a manageable goal without the right data architecture. Today, companies can no longer settle for merely producing more efficiently; they must also monitor and manage the impact of this efficiency on energy consumption, resource utilization, and their carbon footprint. Therefore, technology gains prominence as the fundamental infrastructure that makes sustainability measurable and manageable. At IAS, alongside offering digitalization capabilities to manufacturing companies through Canias, we support them in establishing a more traceable, efficient, and sustainable production model. We consider this award from Germany highly valuable, as it proves that our approach to making sustainable production manageable through technology has resonated on an international scale.”
“Sustainability is evolving into an integral part of production operations”
Kürşad Karaman, Vice President for Europe at IAS, noted that the award validates IAS’s approach of integrating digital excellence with sustainability, stating: “Sustainability is no longer merely a reporting topic; it is transforming into a genuine operational success factor. In the future, companies will not be satisfied with solely knowing how sustainably they produce; they will want to actively optimize energy consumption, CO₂ emissions, and resource utilization during the production phase. Canias plays a decisive role exactly at this point; it makes sustainability manageable by interconnecting production, energy, and process data in real time. When IoT data, machine statuses, and material flows converge within the ERP, an uninterrupted and holistic picture of the value creation process emerges. Consequently, sustainability becomes an integral part of production planning, cost optimization, and competitive strength.”
Sustainability data transforms into operational decisions
By supporting the capture, calculation, analysis, and reporting of ESG data in integration with ERP and business processes, Canias helps companies manage their sustainability performance with greater transparency. This holistic structure, which reduces manual workload, enables the utilization of sustainability data not only for periodic reporting but also for daily operational decisions.
IAS’s award-winning approach can also be experienced in applied production environments. The capabilities offered by Canias are demonstrated live at the model factory at the University of Potsdam, the FabLab at Ostfalia University, and the Canias learning factories established in Türkiye as part of the United Nations Development Programme.
Consolidating ERP, IoT, and big data capabilities into a single platform, Canias supports the sustainable smart factory transformation of manufacturing companies through its flexible architecture, robust integration approach, and low-code/no-code capabilities. With a focus on efficiency, flexibility, and innovation, IAS contributes to transforming sustainability data into an actively managed asset within production processes.