The Power of Enterprise Visualization
Mark Landrosh, Visual Enterprise Solution Management October 2012
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The SAP – Right Hemisphere Relationship
June 2, 2008
SAP Licenses Right Hemisphere Deep View technology into NetWeaver® as a platform-level service
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Why Are Graphics Important – Faster & Better Understanding!
Learning from animations and graphics: 10% better retention 30% better understanding 10% increase in engagement 50% reduction in learning time Harvard University – 2009
Several studies combined have shown:
A median percentage gain of 89% learning effectiveness with images
Animation being better than static images for communicating clearly
(Mayer, 1989b, Mayer/Gallini,1990; Mayer/Bove, 1996.).
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SAP’s Solution - Visualize, Analyze, Mobilize
Service
THE VISUAL ENTERPRISE
BUSINESS DATA CONSISTENCY
EMBEDDED ANALYTICS
MOBILITY
Manufacturing Sales &
Marketing
Service
R & D
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SAP Visual Enterprise Generator: Robust Publishing Engine
CAD Translation
Ultra Lightweight File Generation
Graphics Manipulation
Content Publishing
Workflow Automation
Asset Management
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Visual Enterprise Author: Deliverable Creation Solution
Graphics Manipulation
Content Authoring
3D Animations
Technical Illustration Tools
Photo-realistic Imagery
Query Definition
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Visual Enterprise Viewer: Delivery and Collaboration Mechanism
Collaboration
View and Mark-up
View 3D Models and Animations
Embed 3D in MS-Office, PDF, and HTML
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Visual Enterprise Product Suite
CAD Translation
Lightweight File Generation
Automated Process Creation
Asset Management
Asset Browse and Search
Asset Version Control
Dashboards
Reporting and Administration
High Performance Model Fly-through
Spatial Query
Search by Context and Metadata
Visual Business Intelligence
3D Animations
Tech. Document Publishing
Photo-realistic Imagery
User Interface Configurability
Collaboration
View and Mark-up
View 3D Models and Animations
View 3D in MS-Office & PDF
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SAP PLM Digital Mock-up
Based on the Variant Configuration and Simulation, users in Product Engineering can simulate and visualize all combinations of product variants and use the data for downstream workflows
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Visual Enterprise Generator Integration
ERP
CAD System
CAD Integration DMS
Content Server
Visual Enterprise Generator
VEG Repository
Stores Instance and Positional
Information
User Exit Calls VEG API
Publishes Tagged Viewable
Viewables Cached
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SAP Visual Work Instructions
Higher Quality Reduce the number of change
requests Enforce right version of the right
document
Increased Productivity Increase the Speed Of Production IE and ME Design Reviews using
visual routers to increase the speed of production
Cost Containment Reduce the amount of Training
Time End user Proficiency
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SAP ME - Production Operator Dashboard
Delivery of Instructions to the Operator SAP ME reads routing
information directly from SAP PP
Reduce Costs – Training, Proficiency
Increase Quality – Error Proofing
Red-Line Capabilities Report issues
Integrated Visual Enterprise Viewer Increase Quality Speed to Production Reduce Costs
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SAP ME – Visual Test and Repair
Delivery of Test Instructions Hi Tech manufacturing Visualization of circuit boards Discrepancy reporting
ECAD Neutral File Support GenCAM, version IPC 2511A Offspring, version IPC 2581 ODB++ GenCAD 1.4
ECAD Specific Functionality Flip Board World View Component Tree with reference
designators.
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Visual Assembly / Routing Component Assignment
Routing Component Assignment Guided and visualized
process for creation of routings/ BOMs
Workbench for routing maintenance incl. embedded 3-D viewer
Faster handover to production through creation of manufacturing routing structures and component assignments in parallel with product development process
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Visual Enterprise Planner
Guided and visualized process for creation of alternate BOM structures
Planning scope definition by plant
Structure feedback to ERP
Faster handover to production through creation of manufacturing BOM structures in parallel with product development process
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Visual Analytics in Manufacturing
Large Scale Visualizations Whole Product Whole Plant
In Context Visual Selection
Visualizations “Painted” With Business Data Production Status Work Instructions Bottlenecks
High Performance Spatial and Process Queries
Improved Decision Making
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Visual Maintenance Procedures Using visualization: • Provides visual maintenance review capabilities • Improves maintenance efficiency, reduces line and equipment downtime • Reduces risk of non-compliance and injury due to human error • Speeds new hire training
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Visual EAM Interface
The plant as the interface: • Increase operator efficiency to find equipment records, create work orders, etc • Reduce operator error, contain risk and improve compliance
Thank you
Contact information: Mark Landrosh Visual Enterprise Solution Management [email protected]