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To develop a product, it is not enough to manage the
product, raw materials, and packaging; it is also necessary
to control and track the development process.
Using project management capabilities, the development
progress, resources, and cost can be controlled.
The workflow functionality provides the process
management to inform the right person in time about
changes, approvals, or activities to be performed.
Additional mySAP PLM Applications
In addition to the core cPDm functionality and cPDm
Foundation technologies as defined previously, SAP
has also included applications that support quality
management, asset lifecycle management, and environment
health and services in their mySAP PLM portfolio.
For manufacturing companies, it has become increasingly
important to provide maintenance services
along with their products in addition to maintenance
management services for the operator of an asset.
Quality management, including the feedback loop from
manufacturing into development, is important for
companies to get products right the first time. For process
industries, especially the chemical and pharmaceutical
industries, the compliance to governmental regulations
and product safety issues have also become important.
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Figure 17-Recipe Management
SAP’s mySAP PLM
Asset Lifecycle Management
Asset Lifecycle Management is focused on
Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) activities.
It addresses both discrete manufacturing and process
industries (e.g., utilities, oil and gas, pharmaceutical,
transportation, and public sectors). Recently airlines,
construction, hospitals, defense, banks & insurance,
and other customers have begun to use these capabilities.
The benefits expected from using mySAP PLM
asset lifecycle management are:
• Optimized asset acquisition
• Increased production output
• Reduced external service cost
• Increased performance through high availability
• Projected optimum replacement date for equipment
Asset Lifecycle Management not only helps to improve
asset availability, it is integrated into capital
asset management. The decision when to replace an
asset must take under consideration financial and technical
aspects. The optimum replacement date of an asset
must be figured out under the restrictions of investment
budgets and the information provided from maintenance
and the production side of the house.
The asset lifecycle management capabilities of mySAP
PLM consist of two main applications: internal plant
maintenance and external customer service. Internal
plant maintenance is targeted to
assist project managers and maintenance
engineers to manage physical
assets and equipment, from the first
investment idea through the complete
operational life of the plant.
Customer service, formerly known
as Service Management, supports
helpdesk functions, such as sending
spares to a customer, in-house
repairs, and service calls (including
on-site repair, on-site assembly, and
inspection/preventive maintenance)
and represents a major building
block of SAP's mySAP Customer
Relationship Management solution.
This solution allows BOMs, specifications,
and other important documents
to be transferred from the
design contractor to the operators for
computerized maintenance management in a collaborative
way. Asset lifecycle management could be of interest
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