Product Data Management

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PDM BMW Group 14.05.2007

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Product Data Management

Optimized product engineering processes

with mySAP PLM at BMW Group

Beate Koch, SAP Consulting Helmut Hirsch, BMW AG

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What We’ll Cover ...

BMW Overview – Complexity Challenges

BMW Product Development Process – PEP with PDM Solution based on SAP ERP

Main Challenges Wrap-Up

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Expansion.

Extending the Product Portfolio.

Super Luxury Luxury Upper Midrange Midrange Compact Small Micro

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Development and Production Network.

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Complexity In Vehicle Development

Consequence Of Premium Brand Strategy

Function complexity [f

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Overall complexity

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 7 Series Z4 6 Series 1 Series 5 Series X3 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 7 Series Z4 6 Series 1 Series 5 Series _X3

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What We’ll Cover ...

BMW Overview – Complexity Challenges

BMW Product Development Process – PEP with PDM

Solution based on SAP ERP Main Challenges

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The BMW Group Produkt Development Prozess – PEP

Effectiveness in the Early phase – Efficiency in the serie

development phase

Series development

SOP Series Development

Early phase

Strategy input Preliminary Work Phase Starting confirmation Target agreement

model line derivative Application initial phase

model line

*_{PEP – Product Development Process}

Efficiency

(Do things right)

Effectiveness

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Our mission statement.

“At any given time we have a

transparently and binding

view in PEP* where the vehicle stands concerning

product and process.’’

Series development

SOP Series Development

Early phase

Strategy input Preliminary Work Phase Starting confirmation Target agreement

model line derivative Application initial phase

model line

*_{PEP – Product Development Process}

PL

Continuous reference product structure as “PDM backbone.’’

PEP PDM aims for the implementation of the product data management based on a

continuous product structure with selection of configurations using SAP.

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PEP PDM in practice.

The “PDM Core” is being used and important

Processes are supported.

Management Architecture Configuration Design Engineering Vitual Car Purchase Prototype built BMW-Partner

Conceptphase Series Development

Innovation

First Configurattion ... Changes .. Release

PL Targets Statusprozesse Functional, Geometric Concept BOM requirement specifications Prototypes Change Management

Change Mangement with partner PL

PL

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PEP PDM in figures.

The “PDM Core” is being used and important

Processes are supported.

PL

5.000 technical specifications 20.000 new engineering

change requests

Documentations of test vehicles for 4 Modeltypes

(>100 vehicles each type)

5 Model Lines 160 configured Modeltypes 20.000 Assemblies 300.000 Component Variants aprox. 1.800 users online every day!

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PDM BMW Group 14.05.2007 11 Component Design Release

PEP PDM LS3.

Business process overview.

Supplier Product-structure Workshop facility Design Virtual Car process T-Gate TAIS Modular BMW Legacy BMW Legacy BMW Legacy PL

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PEP PDM LS3

Virtual car process

Achieved target:

– Virtual cars and hardware prototypes are built on common product data,

which is managed in the SAP backbone.

Design Virtual car process

Create virtual cars

PL PL

Provide design data

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What We’ll Cover ...

BMW Overview – Complexity Challenges

BMW Product Development Process – PEP with PDM

Solution based on SAP ERP

Main Challenges Wrap-Up

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BMW PEP PDM

Based on integrated Product and Process Management

in SAP ERP

Support different business

processes

– Maintain product data – Consume product data

SAP ERP with iPPE

– Product data needed for the PEP – Data backbone

SAP NetWeaver

– Technology Platform – Integration Platform – Development Platform Product Structure

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SAP ERP

Used components to manage product complexity

SAP ERP: used components

Overall complexity

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 7 Series Z4 6 Series 1 Series 5 Series X3 Variant Configuration 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 7 Series Z4 6 Series 1 Series 5 Series X3

All possible configurations

iPPE Product Structure management

cFolders _{Collaboration with} suppliers Document Management StartUp-Binder EV-4 Version 1.0 24.01.2002 Seite 16 zur Fre igabe ZB Räder /Reifen Räder /Reifen (Basis 4 Stück, falls nicht anders angegeben) ZB Radlager und Mitnehmerflansch

FunktionsgruppenUnterfunktionsgruppenDetaillierung Key-Code Ko.-Gr

Requirement specification All kind of product data extracts

Classification Material master Documents, … Engineering

Change Management

Vehicle lifecycles

Body types (sedan, convertible,…)

Interfaces Add-Ons to cover BMWs business needs BMW enhancements Numerous interfaces to BMW legacy systems

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What We’ll Cover ...

BMW Overview – Complexity Challenges

Main Challenges

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Main challenges:

Deployment and Management of Change

2002 2006 1.800 users every day

Achieved Target

– 10 Management and 45 communication events for users – 125 topic specific events

– 2.230 users in training sessions – 6.600 accesses on the

PEP PDM intranet monthly

Challenges

– Roll-Out of new process methods based on a new IT solution for every new product line in the PEP-PDM solution

– Present focus on maintaining product data, need to focus also on data consumers

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Main challenges:

Complexity: Power User – Occasional User

Achieved Target

– One consistent structure – one system

Challenges

– Manage complexity

– More users with different roles on the same product data

– Support complex processes on complex UIs for power user – Support specific process for

occasional users

Planned Response

– Support Role specific UIs for occasional users to reduce complexity

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Main challenges:

Performance

Achieved Target

– One consistent structure – one system

Challenges

– Manage permanently increasing high data volume for

– Maintain product structure – Product structure reporting – Product structure explosion

Planned Response

– Provide data for consumer processes in various systems at night

– Parallelization of explosion process on different application servers

– Manage raising requirements – Evaluate new methods

– Simulate emerging data volume

PV010 PV020 PV030 PV040

PV010

PV030

For one vehicle product line:

Current number of component variants: Total: 187.000

Without history: 163.000

Expected volume increase:

Structure components will double every two years.

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What We’ll Cover ...

BMW Overview – Complexity Challenges

Main Challenges

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Summary

The “PDM Core” is being used and important processes are

supported.

Our vision became reality - we have at any given time a

transparently and binding view in PEP* where the vehicle

stands concerning product and process.

Roll-Outs to further product lines are in planning.

We have an increasing number of users and processes on

the provided product data.

We still have to work on reducing complexity, to get the

product data accessible for all users.

We have to design the solution in order to cope with the

continuously increasing data volume.

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PEP PDM

Product Data Management BMW Group

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