SAP PLM Integration for Autodesk Inventor

Administration of Autodesk Inventor with SAP^®-DMS

Advantages:

· CAD direct integration into SAP PLM

· Avoidance of doubled data collection and securing of continuous release and approval processes throughout the enterprise

· Continuous availability of current drawings, models and view files for other departments, e.g. process planning

· No costs for additional Product Data Management System (PDM), since it is fully assimilated into SAP

· Comfortably operating with SAP out of Autodesk Inventor – the familiar work environment for the designing engineer

· Complete display of the Inventor data models in SAP PLM

Functions (overview)

· Documents, meta data,
document originals

· document-structure , Bill of Material (BOM) and material lists

· classification, modification service, search,product structur navigation

Document Management (DMS)

· Automating of routine jobs like creating and updating SAP document info record
· Full support of version control in KPRO for all Inventor originals
· Full integration of SAP approval and release processes
· Support for parts, assemblies, presentations, drawings, iParts, derived parts

Material Management

· Create, change, assign material master data via CAD Desktop
· Material update out of the model (manually or event triggered)

Bill of Material Management

· Generates and updates SAP document structure from Inventor assemblies
· Automatic locking of documents that are in work (other users still have reading access)
· Create and change Bill of Material out of CAD Desktop
· View Bill of Material (single level, level by level, multi level, summarized BOM)

Title block supply

· Bidirectional replication of the iProperties with SAP data (automatically or by request)
(f.e. material master, document info record, change history, classification, user defined attributes, multi-lingual short texts, long texts)

Product data sheet (PDF)

Product matrix (PDF) - SAP PLM Integration for Inventor - 5.1.0.0