A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Stelian-Cornel Florica and George Draghici
You can use ALE to distribute data such as materials, BOMs, documents and original files, change
master records, revision levels, and classification data from one R/3 System to another.
Computer-aided design (CAD) data plays a very important role in the overall product development
process. SAP PLM offers a leading CAD authoring tool embedded into its product development
process. You can use this authoring tool to develop and prepare CAD files, leveraging design
information seamlessly – including three-dimensional geometry, drawings, and bills of material (BOM)
for such processes as costing, sourcing, manufacturing, and more. The tool helps ensure data
consistency by providing direct CAD-tool integration – beneficial for managing changes, documents,
BOM, material masters, and reuse of components.
Through this direct embedding of CAD data into the product development process, all follow-up
processes receive data much faster and with higher quality, while CAD engineers work in a familiar
CAD environment. SAP PLM supports required actions that include versioning, check-in, check-out,
and creation of master data such as material masters and documents. Main benefits of a seamless
CAD integration in SAP PLM include:
Integrated processes
� Integrated into change and release process
� Integrated into SAP Business Suite
� Integrated viewing solution
Simultaneous design collaboration throughout your organization
� "Single source of truth" for all participants
� Location-spanning access to information
� Role-based authorization and real-time access to all relevant information
� Same integration process for different CAD systems
Verifiably lower total cost of ownership and investment
� No additional data management system necessary
� No additional system interfaces or CAD-centric team data management solution necessary
� No data redundancy and synchronization necessary
� One central user management and use of SAP classification system
� Sold and supported by SAP – reduces TCO and TCI by leveraging existing SAP infrastructure
and knowledge. (SAP Product Lifecycle Management)
PTC Windchill - Windchill is a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution that was designed from
the ground up to work in an Internet-based, distributed design environment. Windchill technology
forms the foundation of the packages PTC offers to address data, change, configuration, and process
management; product development collaboration; project management and execution; and the
release of product information to manufacturing management systems.
Windchill PDMLink consolidates scattered islands of information into a single information source,
which can help bring order to chaotic change processes and speed the development of new product
configurations.
Windchill ProjectLink creates a virtual workspace that becomes the central access point for a project,
which helps provide team members with access to information. By automating project management
activities, Windchill ProjectLink can help PTC customers better manage all of their programs, project
schedules, information, and processes.
All Windchill solutions include visualization capabilities that allow individuals anywhere in the
organization to review complex product information in meaningful terms. (Technology Evaluation
Center, http://vs.technologyevaluation.com/software/221-16916/Product-Lifecycle-Management-
PLM/PTC-Windchill.html)
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