SAP Visual Enterprise Integration for a Large Equipment Manufacturer

Name: leverX Company
Brand: LeverX
Rating: 5.0 (10 reviews)

LeverX helped underground technology and utility construction equipment companies to streamline their end to end processes.

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LeverX helped underground technology and utility construction equipment companies to streamline their end to end processes.

Customer

Manufacturer of underground technology and utility construction equipment in the United States.

Challenge

The company needed to improve the organization and sharing of CAD data stored in their non-SAP system. They needed assistance with integrating their non-SAP PLM system containing all of their 3D product CAD data into SAP.

Solution

We integrated SAP Visual Enterprise into their existing environment, which acted as the bridge between their non-SAP PLM system and their SAP engineering and manufacturing environments.

This company was acquired by a larger equipment manufacturer and they inherited two different manufacturing operation processes. Neither organization’s engineering CAD data was accessible across the new enterprise (and vice-versa). They needed help to locate, organize, and securely share all the engineering CAD data that was stranded in silos. They needed to create an integrated foundation where everyone could access the engineering CAD data to improve their manufacturing operations efficiency.

Solution’s Description

LeverX works with companies and organizations to address the complex challenges of today's business world. Each of our partners is an experienced, innovative, and proven leader in their respective fields.

Automotive

SAP PLM is a solid basis for the automotive industry. This solution helps digitize and automate manufacturing processes and work more efficiently with suppliers and partners.

Aerospace & Defense

The solution allows aerospace and defense companies to reduce the time to market for innovations without compromising safety while simulating innovation scenarios along a complex value chain.

Food & Beverage

SAP PLM provides the food & beverage industry with all the required technologies that help to develop sustainable, traceable, high-quality products within a shorter time.

Consumer Goods

With SAP PLM, this industry can exceed the diverse expectations of consumers and enable sustainably and profitably growth for the business.

Pharma

SAP PLM helps to make pharmaceutical production more effective and with lower risk.

Key Features

Automotive

SAP PLM is a solid basis for the automotive industry. This solution helps digitize and automate manufacturing processes and work more efficiently with suppliers and partners.

Aerospace & Defense

The solution allows aerospace and defense companies to reduce the time to market for innovations without compromising safety while simulating innovation scenarios along a complex value chain.

Food & Beverage

SAP PLM provides the food & beverage industry with all the required technologies that help to develop sustainable, traceable, high-quality products within a shorter time.

Consumer Goods

With SAP PLM, this industry can exceed the diverse expectations of consumers and enable sustainably and profitably growth for the business.

Pharma

SAP PLM helps to make pharmaceutical production more effective and with lower risk.

Business Problem

The business problem for this underground construction equipment manufacturing company was organizing and sharing engineering CAD data that was stored in a non-SAP PLM system. The company’s CAD product data was effectively trapped in silos based on geographic location. They were unable to view or share 3D product data between their newly combined acquisitions, which made it difficult to effectively manufacture their products. They wanted lightweight digital twins of all of their CAD engineering data in SAP so that they could be leveraged downstream throughout their enterprise and digital supply chain. They needed help to integrate their non-SAP PLM system containing all of their 3D product CAD data into SAP to manage their product data more efficiently in order to create 3D visual work instructions for the manufacturing shop floor.

Business Solution

The solution for their business challenge was to integrate SAP Visual Enterprise into their existing environment, which acted as the bridge between their non-SAP PLM system and their SAP engineering and manufacturing environments. This introduced Visual Asset Management, Visual Plant Maintenance and Service, Virtual Design Simulation and Construction, Visual Manufacturing Planning, and Visual Sales and Marketing.

We also implemented SAP Engineering Control Center, which acts as a web portal to display and securely share their new lightweight digital twin data and 3D visual assembly instructions for use on the manufacturing shop floor.

Technology Stack We Used

Mobile

Android (Kotlin)
iOS (Swift)

Mobile

Android (Kotlin)
iOS (Swift)

Mobile

Android (Kotlin)
iOS (Swift)

Mobile

Android (Kotlin)
iOS (Swift)

Mobile

Android (Kotlin)
iOS (Swift)

Mobile

Android (Kotlin)
iOS (Swift)

Document Management

Document Release
Material Master Release and Extension
Sales Order Release
Manufacturing Instruction Release

Request Management

Procurement Request
Tooling Change Request
Shop Floor Issue Request
Customer Issue Request
Plant Maintenance Work Request
Request for Quote

Now the company is more efficient because they can now expose 3D product data for their extended enterprise and extended supply chain. The two merged companies currently have one single source of truth and everything is aligned between the two companies. They also have lightweight 3D digital twin visualization 3D files (which are similar to PDF files) that they can share securely throughout the enterprise. The important caveat of the project was getting the 3D visual work instructions to the manufacturing shop floor.

This interactive 3D video shows step-by-step how to build the product and tools required, which helps employees to build the product with ease. This company is now more efficient because everyone in their enterprise and supply chain is leveraging these digital twins, lightweight 3D files to help people build their products much faster.