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)
(f.e. material master, document info record, change history, classification, user defined attributes, multi-lingual short texts, long texts)