SAP PLM Do you use it? Does it work? Comments please.

[tweathe]

All,



Please comment if you use SAP PLM?



Does it work to manage Pro/E parts, drawings and assemblies?



Can it handle family tables?



Can it handle rename?



What problems do you encounter daily, weekly, monthly?



What other tool, if any, do you use in conjunction with SAP (i.e. for data,
doc management)?



Any other modules that you had to buy at a later date?



Thanks



Timothy J. Weatherford

[DavidFrancis]

Yes, It works unbelievably well in may opinion. I worked with it more with CATIA, but I have seen it work with ProE and think it is just as close. look up .riess https://www.riess.de/EN/

In Reply to tim weatherford:

All,



Please comment if you use SAP PLM?



Does it work to manage Pro/E parts, drawings and assemblies?



Can it handle family tables?



Can it handle rename?



What problems do you encounter daily, weekly, monthly?



What other tool, if any, do you use in conjunction with SAP (i.e. for data,
doc management)?



Any other modules that you had to buy at a later date?



Thanks



Timothy J. Weatherford

David T. Francis

[rpassolt]

(For what it's worth)

We'vehelped migratecompanies off SAP PLM into Windchill PDMLink after they calledSAP PLMa "failed experiment".

Rick Passolt

Fishbowl Solutions

(952) 465-3418 (direct)

rpassolt@fishbowlsolutions.com

www.fishbowlsolutions.com

[SteveVinyard]

Hi David, I think we are all hoping for a little more elaboration here for both Products if you have experience with them. Pros/Cons?

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Steve Vinyard
Application Engineer

[DavidFrancis]

I apologize, I was only contributing my experience. Here is my opinion of Pros/Cons for what its worth....

2. Less translation/coordination between systems

4. Everything is a document in SAP, which includes CAD files, assemblies, metadata, etc.

6. Ths is much more easily integrated into business processes, procurement, SCM, NPI, and enables business decisions at the highest levels of the organization

8. Therefore, you can make business decisions on real engineering data

It is getting better, but, in my opinion we could be leaps and bounds beyond where we are.

www.professor-plm.com

Yes, It works unbelievably well in may opinion. I worked with it more with CATIA, but I have seen it work with ProE and think it is just as close. look up .riess https://www.riess.de/EN/

In Reply to tim weatherford:

All,



Please comment if you use SAP PLM?



Does it work to manage Pro/E parts, drawings and assemblies?



Can it handle family tables?



Can it handle rename?



What problems do you encounter daily, weekly, monthly?



What other tool, if any, do you use in conjunction with SAP (i.e. for data,
doc management)?



Any other modules that you had to buy at a later date?



Thanks



Timothy J. Weatherford

David T. Francis

David T. Francis

[ptc-376756]

We were a month away from implementing it for all of ADC when we were bought by TE and are now switching to PDMLink.

Does it work? Yes.

We spent well over a year to get the migration software that moves data from Intralink into SAP to work and after 100 iterations of the software we finally had one that might work. The big problem is that every file needs to go through Intralink application and then through SAP application. All kinds of things broke. Where PDMLink is a database to database map. Big difference.

We also spent a year to get our processes in place to do PLM. That would not change for any system.

We liked the ability to create links to material numbers, rename you CAD files to document numbers and create BOM's and import them into SAP.

If you dont have to migrate or dont have any family tables to migrate or if you have a small database it would work fine. None of these described our Pro/I.

Paul Wilson ADC