MECHATRONICS DEVELOPMENT
Often, the creation and modification of mechatronic products requires the integration of teams distributed all over the world and different technologies which are used in mechanical, electrical, fluid, hydraulics, or in software engineering.
Ongoing coordination of the developers among each other and
with functional areas outside the field of engineering is the key for effective mechatronics product development.
CENIT's solution
The mechatronic product structure is the central element of our industry solutions for distributed product development.
We always offer the best solution package to companies, depending on their „PLM maturity level.“ Starting with the integration of mechanical design into the SAP processes, for example with the CATIA V4, V5, or V6 SAP integration, via the connectivity of circuit-board design in Mentor, Cadence, Zuken, or Altium, and leading to system engineering with interdisciplinary cooperation.
Several 100 customers with ten thousands of users from development and construction already use the advantages of integrated product development with SAP PLM. This long-term experience from practical use characterizes our mechatronics products and service packages.
Accurate processes without detours
The early interface-free integration of typical downstream processes such as
- procurement,
- test, or
- internal and external production
is based on a consistent and transparent configuration management within the integrated ERP/PLM system.
The controlled synchronization of native CAD libraries with SAP – even across
distributed locations – encourages the usage of preferred materials. The effect which component changes have on the entire product can be directly comprehended on an interdisciplinary level.
Our solution creates clarity concerning the different development stages and leads to an understanding of the entire product history. This is especially important when dealing with a huge amount of product variants and products with a short life cycle.
The direct bill-of-materials transfer from the CAD systems into SAP allows for an
early provision of correct manufacturing bills of materials with the associated product information. This helps to dispense with time-intensive and error-prone data preparation and manual bill-of-materials recording.
All product information required for a concrete task is supplied to the process
participants within the correct process context in suitable formats, for direct
post-processing in the specialist department.
Pre-configured operational processes with the simple possibility of ad-hoc adaptations by the project manager thus combine process security with the necessary flexibility in actual product development.
Advantages & benefit
- Shorter innovation cycles by optimal support of product-creation processes distributed worldwide
- Significant increase of process security of typical versioning, validation, test, release, and change processes
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