CIDEON MicroStation Integration for SAP PLM
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Bidirectional replication of drawing properties with SAP data(f.e. material master, document info record, change history, classification, user defined attributes
Advantages:
- CAD direct integration into SAP PLM
- All information for planning, construction and management are available in one syste
- Avoidance of doubled data collection and securing of continuous release and approval processes throughout the enterprise
- Continuous provision of up to date drawings, models and view files for other departments
- No costs for additional Product Data Management System (PDM), since it is fully integrated into SAP
- Comfortably operating with SAP out of MicroStation - the familiar environment of the designing engineer
- Reproduction of the MicroStation data model in SAP PLM
- Document search in SAP supported through thumbnail views
- Flexible configuration, multi language support
Functions (overview)
- Documents, meta data, document originals, external references
- Document-structure , Bill of Material (BOM) and material lists
- Classification, engineering change management, search
Document management (DMS):
- Automating of routine jobs like creating and updating SAP document info record
- Full support of version control for all MicroStation originals
- Full integration of SAP approval and release processes
Material Management
- Create, change, assign material master data via CAD Desktop
- Material update out of the model (manually or event triggered)
Bill of Material Management
- Generates and updates SAP document structure from Inventor assemblies
- Automatic locking of documents that are in work (other users still have reading access)
- Create and change Bill of Material out of CAD Desktop
- View Bill of Material (single level, level by level, multi level, summarized BOM)