The complexity of modern product developments is increasing at an ever-increasing speed due to the variety of variants - up to lot size 1. Multi-disciplinarity and cross-company cooperation are becoming common principles that can secure and expand competitive advantage. This is why the Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) solution from SAP focuses on supporting the early product development process, thus ensuring greater transparency, better collaboration and higher efficiency.
With the new SAP Enterprise Product Development solution - SAP EPD for short - SAP offers a solution that seamlessly integrates the methods of systems engineering into the SAP system landscape and PLM toolchain. In addition, the integration into real live multisystem landscapes is ensured. This accelerates product innovation through simultaneous collaboration, and makes requirement-oriented product development and realizable live insights usable throughout the entire company. The implementation of PLM scenarios with closed-loop engineering is part of innovative digitization strategies.
Traceability from the requirement to the business object in the SAP system is a major advantage of SAP EPD. It is possible to link the objects modeled in SAP EPD with documents, parts lists, materials, etc. If requirements change, the corresponding objects can be easily identified. Through model-based development, the effects of the reengineering of the objects concerned on the overall system and other factors are recorded and taken into account. The analysis is possible from any starting point in the model.
The provision of structured data for all downstream processes is an important part of the SAP solution. This makes it much easier to set up IoT scenarios and make them consistent at an early stage of product development. The automated comparison of target and actual values holds great potential, since requirements in the evolution of systems can be better and better adapted to actual use - with minimal administrative effort.
The adoption of the logical structure modeled in SAP EPD as the basis for the product structure is a further advantage for users. The function of the SAP product structure as a "Digital Core" in the SAP PLM "Big Picture" creates a continuous "Digital Thread" from the requirement to the digital twin, which previously could only be achieved in this quality with a significantly higher effort.
SAP Enterprise Product Development is therefore a solution for integrating systems engineering into the PLM and SAP system landscape of many companies.
SAP EPD Collaboration enables instant collaboration across the entire company.
A conscientious and thorough requirements management is a key to the success of your products:
Model-based requirements management with EPD builds on this:
Products are becoming increasingly complex. Multidisciplinary engineering is becoming the norm and the competitive advantage of successful digitization strategies is taking shape. Model Based Systems Engineering - or MBSE - is coming into focus if you want to meet these challenges. But why?
Besides the fact that SAP EPD with SysML is a very accessible tool for MBSE, the special feature of SAP EPD is its integration into the entire PLM process and SAP system landscape.
SAP EPD Test Management supports you in verifying and validating your products in the engineering process.
For over 30 years, we have been combining SAP PLM expertise and the experience from numerous customer projects in the CENIT SAP Solutions and Coristo Team. Through this long-standing expertise in the SAP environment and the use of their software and integration solutions, we offer you as a customer sustainable competence both in the implementation and in consulting for the use of SAP software as well as in operational support for a long-term and sustainable availability of the software solutions used.
By integrating the earliest phases of product development into existing PLM systems, a further gap on the way to an end-to-end digitized value chain is closed - based on uniform and consistent data.
In our role as SAP partner for a successful digital transformation, we support you from strategic planning to the operation of the solution at your company and also stand by your side with our expertise as a service partner for the future mapping of new business processes.
We have aroused your curiosity and you want to start planning your personal digitization strategy together with us? Write to us and we will arrange a first meeting with you!
