CIDEON America Inc. :: 1760 Market Street, Suite 901 :: Philadelphia, PA, 19103 :: Phone: +1-215-557-9660 ::Fax: +1-215-557-9663 :: Mail: Info@cideon-america.com :: Web: www.cideon-america.com

CIDEON Spare Parts Catalogue for SAP PLM Generation of a spare parts catalogue using SAP PLM

SAP PLM allows the construction to be fully integrated into the ERP-system SAP

®R/3. All the

product data (graphic and alphanumeric) of the prototype and the CAD models through to the dispatched product are thus administered in one system. The resulting record for the documents, articles and their piece lists, plant structures as well as customised production customer refer-ences are administrated using standard R/3 modules such as Project Systems (PS), Materi-almaster (MM) and Plant Maintenance (PM).

Before the spare parts business of the customer’s single-piece production can be optimised, the supplied products are integrated within an interac-tive spare parts catalogue which allows the opera-tors of the facility to quickly and easily purchase spare parts from the manufacturer. The operator can easily and intuitively navigate his way through the spare parts catalogue. A link between the draw-ing and the piece lists leads directly to the desired article which can then easily be placed into the basket.

Automatic generation of a spare parts catalogue us-ing SAP PLM with the module CIDEON TechDoc

Abb.: Publisher surface

SAP®R/3 automatic generation of

the Spare part catalogue.

Spare parts catalogues are automatically gener-ated using SAP

®/R3 through the module

CIDEON TechDoc which automatically estab-lishes the data required for the spare parts cata-logue such as parts master data, piece lists and documents from SAP. By using the SAP change service, consistent product and plant structures can be cancelled through the respective validity, i.e., each revision of a part is exactly allocated to a valid version of documents. A spare parts catalogue can be extracted from the R/3-System at any time during the life cycle of a product through the customer-related administration of the product structures in the R/3 project system and the transferral of this structure to a mainte-nance structure. From the functional locations or the Equipments, the product or plant structure can be illustrated either as a piece, a customer order list, a network plan or a hierarchy. Through the integration of the construction with SAP PLM, the CAD models and their links to the parts

master can be used to automatically generate the links (Hotspots) between drawings and piece lists. Time-controlled generated orders can also be processed in a scalable manner at night. This allows the spare parts catalogues to be automati-cally fully produced in the background. The CIDEON Spare parts catalogue does not produce a redundant data base which has to be reprocessed by „Publisher Software“ to produce a spare parts catalogue. This represents a considerable savings in work for a company’s internal IT department. The Publisher Software CIDEON Technical Workplace possesses a basic navigation surface with a cus-tomised graphic entry and a selection of languages and a quick search function. It also contains full-text search options. Using a basket, the user can easily put together a spare parts order. An order form is filled in with the required data when an order is being placed. The order form can then be trans-ferred to the respective Mailsystem as an attach-ment.

Product and plant-structures from SAP PLM

Publisher Software CIDEON Technical Wor-kplace

CIDEON America Inc. :: 1760 Market Street, Suite 901 :: Philadelphia, PA, 19103 :: Phone: +1-215-557-9660 ::Fax: +1-215-557-9663 :: Mail: Info@cideon-america.com :: Web: www.cideon-america.com

Date of issue: July 2006

Overview of the functions of CIDEON Spare Parts Catalogue

Creation of a spare parts catalogue - Create a customised project for the product, optional: file in SAP-DVS/Contentserver - Login at R/3 with consideration for the user authorisation in SAP

® R/3

- Separation of menu and data language - Supported „SAP product objects“: order piece list, material piece list, documents piece list,

network plan, functional location, Equipment piece list - Automatic input of the Spare part catalogue data - Evaluation of rules and filters during the input process such as „release status“ - Automatic conversion of native documents to TIF/PDF - Automatic linking (hot spotting) of the drawings with the piece lists - Option: manual addition of additional data for the spare parts catalogue with data which are

not administrated in the SAP-System - Customised and order-related declaration of the documents for a graphic entry - Option: Integration of the electro scheme and equipment list from E-CAD based on PDF - Option: Deadline-controlled adjustment of the spare parts catalogues as background proc-

esses to transfer the R/3 data search at night, scaling of the work parcels onto parallel client computers

- Export of the spare parts catalogue onto external data carriers such as CD or DVD

Publisher Software - Start image with quick search, customer and product identification as well as brief instruc-

tions - Graphic navigation

• easy-to-use navigation and navigation depth, a return to the starting point is al-ways possible

• Hotspots/Links with leaps to the order items - Identification of a spare part through

• search for a designation

• search using operating resources characteristics (BMK)

• search for electro spare parts in the electro scheme and equipment list (E-CAD documents)

- Top-Down-Navigation: Cancellation of the link between the document and the piece list - Characterisation of the navigation object in the structure chart - Context menu instruction for navigation and output (print) - Simple operation of the integrated Viewers - Basket function

• allocation of the spare parts (articles) per Drag&Drop

• change of the order quantity

• set guarantee characteristic

• comment box

• cancel article - Release order

• configure and customise order form

• display order form in respective language

• print order

• send order per E-mail (as attachment), start and generate a new E-Mail using Standardmailsystems such as Outlook, Lotus Notes, Novell Groupwise

Extension options - Availabel as Web-Portal solution - Transfer of the function-related data of a product to the operator of a plant for his system

administration, e.g. with SAP PM Visualisation of 3-D-CAD models of Autodesk Inventor with Links to the spare part

Additional solutions which you may want to use:

CIDEON Output Management

Companywide plot- and outputmanagement for

SAP PLM and SAP® DMS

CIDEON Conversion Engine for SAP PLM

The automatic generation of universal and ex-

change formats using SAP® -DMS

CIDEON CAD Migrator for SAP PLM

CAD file migration and automatic editing extracted

files

SAP PLM Integration for AutoCAD, Inventor,

MDT, Solid Edge and SolidWorks

Administration of AutoCAD/MDT with SAP®-

DMS

CIDEON Import PDM

Import of documents in SAP®- DMS or PDM

systems

CIDEON Export from SAP CAD Desktop

CAD Collaboration for SAP PLM