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SAP PLM Integration for Pro/ENGINEER

Product Lifecycle Management with SAP PLM

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Increasing globalization and an ongoing demand for shorter product development cycles entail a need for software solutions that facilitate a continuous flow of information and support collaboration with both internal and external users. When developing a product using collaboration engineering, various divisions need to have access to product data. These departments are, among others, sales, production planning, process planning and order processing. Collaboration along with increased data security enables a speeding up of processes. The afore mentioned demands are perfectly united in S ! !"#. ll users of !"# have Internet$based access to all product and process data during the whole product life cycle. %ne of the main functions of a !"# system is the management of documents such as technical drawings, &' models, (C programs and text documents. S ! !"# also delivers functionalities for automatic version management, classification of documents as well as a search tool that operates via classification attributes. The status networ) describes the route of a certain document within a company up to its release or archivation. *or any type of document, this networ) can be tailored to the needs of a company. Thus, every employee can access any and all important documents regardless of time and place. Controlled access to data is ensured through a flexible and highly efficient authorization concept. The availability of highly efficient integrations of C x systems is a crucial feature of !"# systems. The S ! !"# Integration for !ro+,(-I(,,./ enables direct management of !ro+,(-I(,,./ models and structures in S ! and also provides direct access to all important functionalities of the S ! system.

Managing $ocument!

$irect Integration for Pro/ENGINEER

The integration for !ro+,(-I(,,./ ensures seamless, homogeneous integration into !ro+,(-I(,,./. There is no need for a separate document management solution since the functionality of the S ! system can be used directly. 0sers wor) in their usual S ! environment due to the direct access to standard S ! functionality. &unctionalitie! of the direct integration #anagement of different !ro+, ob1ect types 2 S#, !.T, '.W, " 3, ...4 #anagement of external and internal references #angement of simple or hierarchical family tables #anagement of simplified representations #anagement of suppressed and ghost ob1ects Creation of thumbnails Transfer of transformation matrices and bounding boxes for '#0 Creation of viewing files 'irect access to S ! functionalities, li)e material search, where$used lists, product structure browser

Support of multiple wor)ing directories

A$ $e!%top

Within the S ! system, the C ' des)top is a generic interface that enables convenient management of &' C '$structures in the S ! .+& system. It was developed by S ! in close cooperation with .riess engineering. It5s an integral part of each direct integration and ensures a online, synchroneous and bidirectional management of the product data. C ' structures are displayed in a browser that is fully configurable. Thus, the layouts of a large variety of document information such as 6%#s, classifications, users, status, lin)s to material etc. stored in the S ! system can be managed.

&unctionalitie! of the A$ $e!%top

Create, assign, or delete 'ocument Info .ecords 2'I.4 utomatic creation of 6ill of 'ocuments Chec)In and Chec)%ut funtcions, supported by assistants Chec)%ut of !ro+, structures with+ without drawings, external references and suppressed components Status changes for complete structures

Creation of versions and copies .eplace of versions Create or assign material master records Creation and update of 6%#5s

ccess to '#0, c*olders and ,asy 'ocument #anagement

Ad'antage!

.edundancy free management of design data within one system *ast and company wide access to the most current product data, li)e drawings 7igher efficiency within the product development as !ro+,(-I(,,./ drawings and
models can can be lin)ed with S ! ob1ects Controlled change and release processes Worldwide data distribution

ontact Addre!!

Wolfgang Schu)ows)i 8 Tel. 9:; <=>= + <><$:>? 8 wolfgang.schu)ows)i@riess.de .riess engineering europe -mb7 8 'raisstr. ?> 8 ' $ <A&>< Barlsbad 8 -ermany Tel. 9:; <=>= + <><$> 8 *ax 9:; <=>= + <><$:;; box@riess.de 8 www.riess.de