SAP PLM Integration for SolidWorks
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 SolidWorks – the familiar work environment for the designing engineer
- Complete display of the SolidWorks data models in SAP PLM, e.g. configurations, external references, part-groups, mirrored parts, blanked parts
- Easy installation, activation as SolidWorks accessory application
Functions (overview)
- Documents, meta data, document originals
- Document-structure, Bill of Material (BOM) and material lists
- Classification, modification service, search, product structure navigation
Document Management (DMS)
- Automating of routine jobs like creating and updating SAP document info record
- Full support of version control in Tresor or KPRO for all SolidWorks originals
- Full integration of SAP approval and release processes
Document-structure functionality
- Generates and updates SAP document structure out of SolidWorks assembly groups
- “Check-in” and “check-out” of all originals of the assembly group and additional documents
- 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 SolidWorks like weight and volume
- Linking of parts with the associated documents
- Automated deriving of BOM out of SolidWorks structures
Title block supply
Is done automatically and directly through material master, document info records, history of modification, classification and other information.
