eg Intelligent Engineering for an Intelligent Enterprise Corey nat etalon et a Cod mC Uae ody oe aoa Sap”Table of Contents n 15 2 23 Laying the Foundation for Digital Twins Integrating Data from Leading Authoring Tools and Design Systems Staying Ahead of Emerging Trends Leveraging Partner Contributions Unlocking Time for Higher-Value Work Extending Your Reach with Additional SAP Solutions Tallying the Benefits« An intelligent enterprise relies on an uninterrupted flow of information as the foundation for process transparency, real- time situational awareness, and fast response to market change. Technologies and solutions from SAP are designed to help you establish and maintain that single source of truth by design, development, manufacturing, and maintenance. =) SAP Engineering Control Center ere enn eritean tel} RRS Nea lee ee Miegiaiy ater momen eee lien) and Microsoft Office solutions.« Laying the Foundation for Digital Twins Today, manutacturers look to create digital twins for their products to follow the entire lifecycle — from design, production, delivery, use, and service to end of life. The digital twin lets manufacturers of devices and machines offer new services and thereby fully exploit the opportunities of digitalization. But where does the digital twin begin? Is there a point where manufacturing companies can start? DELIVERING A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO ENGINEERING You can lay the foundation of the digital twin right at the beginning. with the SAP" Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) application and the SAP Engineering Control Center integration tool. Together, they help you integrate design data from CAD systems with the business data from your SAP applications, so that you have the holistic digital product definition required to create a digital twin, SAP Engineering Control Center is the strategic integration platform from SAP for all authoring tools, including leading mechanical CAD (MCAD). electrical and electronic CAD (ECAD). and Microsoft Office solutions.POWERING THE LANDSCAPE OF SAP SOLUTIONS Using SAP Engineering Control Center for direct access to the powerful functionality in SAP Business Suite software or SAP S/4HANA® opens up new possibilities for networks of digital twins, And it brings SAP Leonardo Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities, machine learning, analytics, Big Data, and blockchain processing within easy reach. As an important building block of SAP PLM, SAP. Engineering Control Center helps discrete manufacturers ‘manage all product-related data and documents in the corporate IT backbone. It provides a unique user inter face tailored to the specific needs of engineering users, and those who create and manage information related to products at any stage of the product lifecycle. SAP Engineering Control Center opens up new possibilities for networks of digital twins. « integrating Data from Leading Authoring Tools and Design Systems Engineering success today requires collaborative R&D and product development in the early phases of the product lifecycle, and smart asset management and predictive maintenance in the later phases. The SAP Engineering Control Genter integration tool helps you foster both kinds of intelligence. This is the key to creat: ing and managing digital twins, which are digital repre- sentations of the physical, conditional, and commercial aspects of every product in your portfolio and every asset in your operations. FOSTERING COLLABORATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES, Working within SAP Engineering Control Center, you can integrate mechanical, electrical, and electronic design data from market-leading authoring systems for MCAD and ECAD systems on a single platform. By combining design data with business data, you create a holistic and consistent description that makes cross-functional collaboration among all stakeholders easier than ever SAP Engineering Control Center helps your teams deliver comprehensive product descriptions, consistent product detinitions, and robust version control. Features for embedded quality and sustainability management help you imagine and manufacture smart, connected prod ucts for savy modern consumers. You can manage the complexity and diversity of modern products in a single system while reducing the total cost of ownership for your design landscape. « INTEGRATING MULTISOURCE PRODUCT DATA TO EMPOWER R&D By establishing a single consistent version of product data, SAP Engineering Control Center increases engi- neering and production efficiency. Italso helps you integrate innovation processes to improve collaboration, shorten lead times, and enforce production standards, Because it can highlight potential manufacturing and ‘compliance problems before they arise, this collabora- tive design process yields substantial cost savings. And by integrating with diverse mechanical, electrical, and electronic design systems, SAP Engineering Control Center enables you to develop smart, connected products. FACILITATING END-TO-END REQUIREMENT-DRIVEN ENGINEERING ‘SAP Engineering Control Center is at the head of the stream for all product-related data and engineering Create a holistic and consistent description that makes cross-functional collaboration among all stakeholders easier than eve: processes, from design and development, through logistics and manufacturing, to service and maintenance. You can, store and manage product data in the SAP software system directly from your design environment, access SAP data from CAD tools, and link objects from drawings, models, and documentation to material, bills of material, equipment, and functional location Engineering and downstream processes are smoothly integrated in the SAP world. With engineering embedded across your intelligent enterprise, you can accelerate time to market for new innovations, addressing new market trends and new customer requirements much more quickly to hone your competitive edge. Figure 1 summa. rizes the tlow of engineering processes along the full product lifecycle, <1 >« Systems engineering Enterprise Manufacturing, ‘Service and maintenance procurement, and Ge Functional model Logical model ee ape ‘chain: Real-time strategy and G4 eR ees i até Statistical Sensorand Physics | ‘rode! agnostics model, Collaboration, steering, costing, and change eu > Oso o £a $ Pe io = a S vee Se cs Ge ee Figure 1: Components of SAP PLM Enabling Requirement Driven Collaborative Engineering « Staying Ahead of Emerging Trends Today's savvy consumers demand products that address their specific needs directly. Andif one supplier is not able to satisty their requirements, another is readily available in our competitive global marketplace. At the same time, 2s products in all industries grow smarter and more con: nected, successful companies are learning to use anew approach that combines MCAD and ECAD disciplines. ACCELERATING PRODUCT INNOVATION SAP Engineering Control Center not only integrates design data and links it with business data, but it also allows end Users to participate collaboratively in follow-on product development processes, The accuracy and consistency of the data, coupled with the ability to execute business, processes either in SAP Business Suite software or SAP S/4HANA, helps accelerate the innovation process, PRODUCING PERSONALIZED PRODUCT VERSIONS With SAP Engineering Control Center, you can support the emerging "segment of one” paradigm by easily designing highly personalized versions to target single customers. And you can shrink costs and shorten time to market with collaborative R&D, discover new business, models in collaborative product development, and increase productivity with more-efficient manutacturing. SMART PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WITH MECHATRONICS Engineering today's smart products involves an interplay among diverse disciplines for mechanical, electrical electronic, and software design. This new *mechatronics approach is becoming highly complex - and is taking on increasing importance across industries. It depends Sort >« Engineering today’s smart products involves an interplay among diverse disciplines for mechanical, electrical, electronic, and software design — ina new “mechatronics” approach. absolutely on the efficient integration of MCAD and ECAD to foster holistic systems engineering, since uni form, consolidated data and processes in all stages from engineering through manutacturing are essential to engi neering mechatronic products. ‘SAP PLM and SAP Engineering Control Center offer one of the first tully integrated mechatronies solutions ~ one straight-through system for all product data and pro: Mechanic! sien om lect and electron desion cesses, from design and engineering to logistics and manufacturing to service and maintenance, as illustrated in Figure 2. SAP Engineering Control Center integrates all mechanical, electrical, and electronic prod- uct design aspects into SAP PLM. along with related firmware and software. This means that users can store and manage product data in the SAP software system, directly trom their design environment and move objects between systems. 10M Seas Poo Tages == Fer more information shout tne ECAD systems supported see page 12 10/24 Figure 2: The Reach of SAP Engineering Control enter Across the Product Lifecycle« Leveraging To foster your success with holistic engineering, SAP has built a powerful community of selected partners, each with profound experience in SAP PLM, ‘who offer interfaces to specific CAD systems and related solution extensions. WORKING WITH POPULAR INTERFACES ‘The MCAD and ECAD blocks in Figure 2 represent a number of interfaces be. ‘tween popular CAD products and SAP Engineering Control Center. SAP partners CENIT AG, CIDEON Software & Services GmbH & Co. KG, DSC Software AG, and ress engineering gmbh provide interfaces with standard functionality for: + Managing CAD parts, assemblies, and drawings, including creation, display, and editing + Managing material masters. including material definitions and assignments, display, and editing + Managing bills of materials, including creation, display, and editing + Navigating conveniently using ribbon navigation menus + Integrating management of versions and status + Integrating the viewing technology in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise applications« Tohelp you manage the integration of product data to ‘SAP PLM, our partners provide the following interfaces, to CAD software solutions: + SAP Engineering Control Center interface to AutoCAD + SAP Engineering Control Center interface to CATIA V5 + SAP Engineering Control Center interface to Inventor + SAP Engineering Control Center interface to NX + SAP Engineering Control Center interface to PTC Creo + SAP Engineering Control Center interface to PTC. Windchill by .riess + SAP Engineering Control Center interface to Solid Edge + SAP Engineering Control Center interface to SOLIDWORKS Take advantage of a powerful community of selected partners to foster your success with holistic engineering Partners also provide these interfaces to solutions for electrical and electronic design: + SAP Engineering Control Center intartace to EPLAN + SAP Engineering Control Center interface to ECAD ‘The SAP Engineering Control Center interface to ECAD. supports the following ECAD systems: + Altium Designer from Altium LLC. + Allegro and OrCAD trom Cadence Design Systems Inc. + Xpedition and PADS trom Mentor. a Siemens Business <2USING PARTNER EXTENSIONS ‘Several SAP partners have also provided solution exten sions to SAP Engineering Control Center. They include interface providers DSC Software AG, CENIT AG, CIDEON Software & Services GmbH & Co. KG, and riess engineering gmbh, as well as EPLAN Software & Services LLC. DSC codeveloped the basic technology behind SAP Engineering Control Center and serves customers in awide variety of industries. The company can deploy SAP Engineering Control Center as a full solution or implement a single direct interface tor NX from Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. DSC can also deploy SAP Engineering Control Center as a general tool to manage documents related to key business processes and has developed a special asset browser for managing complex structures, CENIT serves primarily the discrete manufacturing industry, complementing the solutions of its strategic partners with, its own cenitCONNECT product suite. Its offerings include software that optimizes diverse processes related to SAP PLM. CENIT provides the SAP Engineering Control Center interface to version 5 of CATIA from Dassault Systmes, CIDEON is a long-term SAP partner that provides inte~ gration solutions for SAP PLM. Besides standard CAD integration, CIDEON develops and supports tools for SAP PLM that boost process optimization across the enterprise. Supported CAD systems include AutoCAD and Inventor by Autodesk Ine.. Solid Edge by Siemens, and SOLIDWORKS by Dassault Systémes. &s/2>« EPLAN develops computer-aided engineering solutions and advises compa nies on optimizing their engineering processes. Standard integration of EPLAN software into SAP software adds ECAD data to product models for optimal data consistency in SAP PLM. The integrated system solution pro vides additional functions for document management, materials and bills of materials management, and parts synchronization Since 2000, .riess engineering has been a strategic development partner tor the integration of solutions from PTC, and today the company is responsible for the integration of Creo and Windchill from PTC into SAP PLM and SAP Engineering Control Genter. Other parts of the .riess portfolio offer solutions {for process optimization and data migration or initial data load to help ensure a smooth transition to SAP PLM and the realization of holistic product lifecycle management, even across system boundaries 9sSC cenit “riessonjosing - fe Er« Unlocking Time for Higher-Value Work By keeping all data in a single source, SAP Engineering Control Center relieves you of the administrative chores associated with unifying multiple databases. You have more time for work that contributes directly to the bottom line, Useful behind:-the-scenes functionality ranges from the automatic generation of bills of materials to the system-controlled dispatch of documents to suppliers. And you can set up automatic check-in of neutral-format files at the engineering workstation after engineers have viewed or edited them. USING THE ENGINEERING COCKPIT ‘As product data moves across manufacturing, procurement, logistics, service, and maintenance, SAP Engineering Control Center serves as a cockpit that empowers engineers to edit and share data and participate conveniently in key processes across the product lifecycle, Locally generated product data and documents are available company-wide and can be structurally managed, classified, versioned., and linked with SAP software objects. You can display al relevant SAP software objects. including materials masters, bills of materials, change masters, and technical documentation components, in personal folders. Keeping all data in a single source relieves you of the administrative chores associated with unifying multiple databases. gss>« You can take advantage of drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste functionality to populate flexible, user-specific folder structures. Context-sensitive pull-down menus simplify navigation, and the file structure is designed for both high performance and information security. The cockpit provides easy access to all transactions, whether standard to your industry or specific to your organization, With 2D and 3D viewing functionality, the information is readily comprehensible even to business users unfamiliar with CAD. Visual features to increase user-friendliness include window layering and colored symbols for release status (illustrated in Figure 3), as well as icons for additional object information. From the cockpit, you can customize the desktop, configure windows to suit your preferences, and launch all inked programs with asingle click. The cockpit can display materials masters, bills of materials, change masters, and technical documentation, which you can edit with drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste functionality. & 18/24A g v Figure 3: Use of Windowing and Color mn Displays in ‘SAP" Engineering Control Center« ELIMINATING SOURCES OF ERROR Technological progress has reduced the duration of basic processes from ‘many days to a few hours, challenging the human players to move things forward quickly without producing errors at the same time. SAP Engineering Control Center keeps manuial intervention to a minimum through smooth data management, with intelligent functionality that hamesses our decades of experience fine-tuning business software, Key features let you + Select data using differentiated search filters or full-text search + Perform efficient mass operations to change attributes, control versions, and manage releases, + Copy full folder structures, including references to SAP software objects, with a few keystrokes + Launch additional software applications relevant to your context cS SAP Engineering Control Center keeps manual intervention toa minimum through smooth data man- agement. with intel- ligent functionality for search, mass change, and copy « KEEPING DOCUMENT RELEASE AND CHANGE PROCESSES, TRANSPARENT Product manufacturing generates mountains of backup text and gaphics in various versions, creating a major document management challenge. Structured document management in SAP Engineering Control Center helps you securely structure and store documents from. engineering, technical documentation, marketing, and other lines of business that share your SAP software infrastructure. The cockpit can display status, version, and validity of the correspond- ing information ata glance, as illustrated in Figure 4. You can search for documents using full text or organize documents in folders and work- books for retrieval using classification features. End users benefit from transparent release and change processes, including automatic notiti- cation of status changes or editing. You save time and costs while increasing security« Figure 4: Document Management in SAP* Engineering control Center <20/24>« Extending Your Reach with Additional SAP Solutions Benefit from the native integrations that SAP Engineering Control Center offers to functionality in the SAP PLM application to perform early product costing, collabora- tion, or asset management. PERFORMING PRODUCT COSTING Ifyou use the SAP Product Lifecycle Costing solution to manage costs, you can calculate costs in the early stages of development, when changes are easy to implement. The solution helps you perform calculations at the com- ponent level and aggregate them at the assembly level. displaying the resutt in SAP Engineering Control Center COLLABORATING IN THE CLOUD ON PRODUCT DESIGN Today's product development teams often need to col laborate with external partners or assign them individual tasks in a development process. Partners who do not have access to the internal product lifecycle manage: ment system may need to complete work outside the enterprise. By integrating the SAP S/4HANA Cloud solu tion for intelligent product design with SAP Engineering Control Center, you can set up a collaboration space in Which authorized partners have role-based access to your data. Engineers can upload design data to the col laboration space using drag-and-drop functions. Part- ners download construction data into their local CAD tool, work there, and upload the results to the collabo ration space. Then your engineers import the finished work to SAP Engineering Control Center. with changes tracked. A smart assistant provides comprehensive information on created, changed. and updated data thereby avoiding redundancies. MANAGING ASSETS INTELLIGENTLY Asan important component of product lifecycle man agement, SAP Engineering Control Center not only inte grates leading authoring systems but also helps manage all types of documents and assets. It makes business processes in the asset management field more efficient by linking documents with SAP master data from such sectors as materials management, plant maintenance, ‘quality management, acquisition, and project manage- ment, SAP Engineering Control Center safeguards trans- parency and provides real-time insight into the state of individual plants, equipment, machines, and other assets. You can take advantage of your digital twins to test potential resolutions to any issues you discover. Intelligent ttter. search. and reporting machanisms and an integrated asset browser simplify the management of large and complex structures. Graphical navigation through data from SAP applications, plant concepts, and equipment and product specifications speeds up daily work and helps mitigate the risk of manual errors. With support for asset owners and operators and engi- neering, procurement, and construction firms, SAP Engineering Control Center serves as an especially powerful tool in such asset-intensive processes as: * Oil and gas production and distribution + Energy production and distribution + Plant design and management + Public sector asset management + Railway and vehicle transportation « Tallying the Benefits ‘SAP Engineering Control Center represents the latest evolution of R&D integration technology from SAP. We have listened to your feedback and have continually extended and adapted to market needs for over 15 years. KEEPING DATA CONSISTENT AND SECURE SAP Engineering Control Center keeps data consistent across disciplines and makes its interrelationships transparent to support fact-based, context-enhanced decisions. Your information stays secure through stan- dardization and automation, tighter control of release and change processes, and camprehensive usage moni- toring. And SAP Engineering Control Center also follows the general rule of system integration: fewer island solu tions and media breaks mean fewer sources of error. FOSTERING ACCESSIBILITY SAP Engineering Control Center offers easy, role-based access to product information in all leading CAD systems through an intuitive user interface that includes drag- and-drop functionality, context-sensitive menus, and numerous 2D and 3D visualization mechanisms to make even nuanced information readily comprehensible. You can manage work-in-progress data trom authoring tools, including version management and change control, and create materials masters and bills of materials. And you can interface directly with other SAP software products including SAP Product Litecycle Costing and SAP S/4HANA Cloud for intelligent product design, with proj- ect management, and with SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author applications, the information is y comprehensible even to busine: rs unfamiliar with CA STAYING ON TOP OF YOUR GAME SAP Engineering Control Center helps you achieve more with S. particularly in projects with massive concurrent develop: ment efforts and systems engineering. You can work more effi ly and improve output to seize opportunities that fly by in fdigitalization. You can prepare your network of digital twins and pave the way to implementing emerging blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies. And perhaps most important, you can give your development engineers a lot more time to design new products and improve existing ones. You To find out more about enhance your brand image with quality products and high Sauna xen customer satisaction levels while you diversity your product ae portfolio, lower your operating costs, and grow your revenues our ascos De oa oun ae