Join Gerhard Himmelsbach, Area Product Owner, giving a demo of how to integrate design data into the product structure for visualization, versioning and baselining.
Let’s also listen to our customer Sandvik (Mining & Construction) and discover how they use SAP Enterprise Product Development to streamline and bring transparency with traceability for their entire product lifecycle.
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Timestamps:
00:00 – 00:58 Leverage EPD with CAD integration and integration outlook
00:58 – 02:50 Demo overview: how to transfer CAD data from an external CAD system to SAP ECTR, then publish it in SAP EPD and create baselines
02:50 – 04:30 Connecting to SAP S/4HANA to import materials and CAD files to link to EPD product structure data
04:31 – 06:38 Visualizing the data in SAP EPD – Enterprise Product Structure
06:39 – 08:48 Synchronizing changes in the external CAD system across all systems, using effectivity in SAP EPD to create a change history
08:48 – 13:10 Creating and using baselines in SAP EPD together with product structure, versioning and visualization
13:11 – 13:40 Recap of what is possible in SAP EPD today
13:41 – 15:51 Outlook: planned direct integration of CAD data into SAP EPD and looking for customers for co-innovation
17:02 – 17:36 Highlighting the great user experience of the new capabilities
17:45 – 19:18 SAP Customer Sandvik on how the use SAP EPD for streamlining and bringing traceability into their product lifecycle
17:55 – 19:18 What does Sandvik do?
19:19 – 23:29 Sandvik’s challenges in PLM: Cross-Brand Sourcing
23:28 – 26:52 Different collaboration scenarios at Sandvik
26:53 – 31:48 System Architecture and data flow: manual collaboration, external collaboration
31:48 – 33:00 Data flow using Product Package Exchange (PPX)
33:01 – 35:50 Exploring future use cases
35:58 – 36:01 Recap: SAP EPD is used as external and internal collaboration tool at Sandvik
36:36 – 40:25 Info on how Sandvik uses design documents and templates for collaboration and how they leverage the architecture
40:14 – 41:19 Having one single master is a great improvement to Sandvik’s supplier collaboration
