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Eastman Kodak Company’s

SAP PLM Implementation

Case Study

April 16, 2014

Keith Satterfield

2 ©Eastman Kodak Company, 2014

Presenter

Keith Satterfield, IT Director

• Eastman Kodak Company

• Dayton, Ohio

• 30 years of IT experience

• 10 years of working with SAP

• Directed Commercial Inkjet Printing PLM Initiative


SAP PLM at Kodak

In the graphic communications industry, Kodak serves

customers in the printing, publishing, packaging, and

enterprise markets with intelligent solutions for

competitive advantage and greater return on

investment.

Needing a solution to achieve scalable integration with

its global logistics system with seamless access, Kodak

selected SAP as the central PLM system with direct

CAD Integration for its Commercial Inkjet Printing

Business.


• Challenges and Objectives of PLM Initiative

• SolidWorks® Integration with SAP

• SolidWorks 2013 Migration

• Benefits

Agenda


Challenges

• Product Design Teams in Multiple Locations

– Rochester, New York

– Dayton, Ohio

– Asia

• Highly Complex Products

– Nearly 3,200 unique parts and 13,000 BOM items

– Multiple Vaulting Systems

– Duplicate Data

– No Common Change Process

• Large Amount of Legacy Data


Objectives

• Reduce process defects and engineering design cycle time for

Kodak’s commercial inkjet products

• Provide a method to effectively manage aggressive

development and product release cycles, perform and track

cost-reduction activities, and perform change management

across both internal and external manufacturing and design

resources

• Deliverables

– Product data management

– Mechanical CAD integration with SolidWorks

– ECO process and workflow management

– Engineering design/change collaboration

• Establish foundation for future product design


Document (DMS)

Collaboration

CAD Integration

Cost Estimates

Enabler Previous Current/Future

Single Source of Product

Information

Collaborative Design

through Strategic

Partners

Simulated Product

Costing

Early Procurement of

Materials in Design

Inaccurate Product

Design Information

Long Product Design

Cycles

Delayed Product Cost

Information during

Design

Introduction of

Products to Supply

Chain Takes Too

Long

Solution

Process Change


SAP PLM SolidWorks Integration

Content

Server

Material Material BOM ECM Documents

DMS

Doc Info Rec

SAP

SAP CAD

Desktop

CIDEON Integration


SAP CAD Desktop

• CAD Desktop is a powerful tool that brings together views of

information stored in both the SAP and CAD systems

• Document structures in SAP reflect the originals in SolidWorks

• SolidWorks defines the complete structure and transfers it to the

SAP system through the direct integration

• CAD Desktop provides several views of the CAD documents

– SAP View – shows what is stored in SAP

– CAD View – shows the current active SolidWorks document

– CAD Work List – shows all open SolidWorks documents

– CAD Working Directory – shows files in personal work directory

– Document List – shows documents based on search criteria


CAD Desktop ‒ SAP View

• Shows the SAP structure of the last active CAD document


CAD Desktop ‒ CAD View

• Shows the SAP structure of the CAD document currently being processed

in the CAD system


Design Engineer Works from Familiar Interface

• Integration launched as SolidWorks Add-in



• SAP’s user-specific options added to SolidWorks menu


CIDEON Conversion Engine

• CIDEON Conversion Engine for SAP PLM is a key

component of the Kodak SAP Solution

• The Conversion Engine creates neutral files (JPG,

PDF, JT) of each CAD file for viewing in various

applications

– For Kodak this includes the SAP GUI, SAP

EasyDMS, and the SAP Engineering Portal

– SAP Portal provides access to relevant documents

(SolidWorks, neutral files, procedures, etc.) for key

suppliers


Conversion

Engine

CIDEON Conversion Engine

Status Network

CK- Check In

FZ - Frozen

PS - Pending

RL - Released

OB - Obsolete

Neutral File Format files created automatically as Solidworks

Document Progresses through the Status Network

Watermark Applied to Reflect Document Status

Title Block Information Updated


SolidWorks Title Block

• What should show on the Title Block?

– Customizable content

• DIR #, Version, Revision?

• Material revision?


Data Migration Strategy

PDMWorks

Vault 2

PDMWorks

Vault 1

Manual Save of

Latest Version

Export

Local File

System SAP Content

Server

SAP DIR

CIDEON

Import Utility

Iterative

Process


SolidWorks Integration Timeline

• SAP PLM Solution Selected March 2011

• CIDEON to Assist with Integration April 2011

• Product Familiarization June 2011

• CIDEON Solution Blueprint October 2011

• CIDEON Solution Realization December 2011

• SolidWorks Integration Go-Live January 2012

• SolidWorks 2013 Migration February 2013


SolidWorks 2013 Migration

• Upgrade from SW 2010 to SW 2013

• Needed to migrate existing SolidWorks files of various

versions

– SWP ~55K

– SWA ~20K

– SWD ~30K

• CIDEON®- CAD Release-Migration

– Automatic update of the original CAD files to a new

version and data format

– Flexible processing and configuration options

– Consists of two components

• Migration Control Center – controls processing

• One or more Conversion Clients – performs migration



Migration Control Center allows the migration in SAP to be controlled

and monitored from a central location.

Select Documents for Migration

Summary of Migration Status

Filter by Migration Status



Configurable to

create backup of

original

Log file provides information for errors


Benefits

• Immediate Benefits

– Common and Consistent Change Process

– Single Source of Data

– Global Visibility of Product Information

– Better Document Control

• Benefits We Have Seen Improve over Time

– More Efficient Engineering Change Process

– Standardization of Product Information

– Reduced Errors from Inaccurate Documentation

– Able Track Process Metrics and Performance


Learnings and Recommendations

• Have a Solid Document Migration Strategy

– Do as Much Data Cleanup as Possible before

Migrating

– How will you deal with missing files?

– Configured Parts/Toolbox

• Training

– DIR vs. Material. Semantics can be confusing

– Plan to spend twice the time that you had expected

• Spend Enough Time to Understand the Tool


Possible Future Enhancements

• SAP PLM Upgrade

• Add Cache/Content Servers in Regions to Provide Access

• Improve Export of Information to Key Partners

• Add Additional Kodak Products


Additional Information

• Number of SolidWorks Files Imported ~95K

• SAP ECC 6.0

• Oracle 11.2 DB

• PLM ver 7.01

• Single Content Server

• ~250 PLM Users

• ~50 SolidWorks Users

• Number of SolidWorks Files Migrated to 2013 ~105K


Questions?

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