SAP PLM Integration for Solid Edge
Advantages:
- CAD direct integration into SAP PLM
- Avoidance of doubled data collection and securing of continuous release and approval processes throughout the enterprise
- Continuous availability of current drawings, models and view files for other departments, e.g. process planning
- No costs for additional Product Data Management System (PDM), since it is fully assimilated into SAP
- Comfortably operating with SAP out of Solid Edge – the familiar work environment for the designing engineer
- Complete display of the Solid Edge data models in SAP PLM, e.g. assembly group variations, interpart-correlations, part-groups, mirrored parts, welded parts
Functions (overview)
- Documents, meta data, document originals
- Document-structure , Bill of Material (BOM) and material lists
- Classification, modification service, search,product structur navigation
Document management (DMS):
- Automating of routine jobs like creating and updating SAP document info sets
- Full support of version control in KPRO for all Solid Edge originals
- Full integration of SAP approval and release processes
Document-structure functionality
- Generates and updates SAP document structure out of Solid Edge assembly groups
- “Check-in” and “check-out” of all originals of the assembly group
- Automatic locking of documents that are in work (other users still have reading access)
Bill of Material and parts lists
- Automated generating of material master in SAP R/3 with information from Solid Edge like weight and volume
- Linking of parts with the associated documents
- Automated deriving of BOM out of Solid Edge structures
Title block supply
Is done automatically and directly through material master, document info records, history of modification, classification and other information
