Business Opportunities

Seamless Integration of homegrown shop floor management system with ERP and PLM to manage Engineering and Manufacturing data
• Material Master Data synchronization between PLM & ERP (two way)
  • Parts created in PLM are transferred to ERP - triggered by release workflow
  • Additional attributes populated in ERP are brought back in PLM for reference
• MBOM transfer from PLM to ERP
  • Complex data extraction & transformation needed to create Change Masters (Effectivity) and MBOM data in SAP
  • Revisions of BOM in PLM are calculated to translate into add/modify/delete in SAP
• BOP transfer from PLM to ERP
  • Includes SWI (Supplier Work Instructions)
  • Operations, TWIs, Workcenters, Tools and Effectivity data
• BOP transfer from PLM to MES
  • Includes TWIs, Workcenters, Tools along with Effectivity data, attached documents/artefacts

Features

• Failure messages returned from destination system are made available in PLM audit logs to end users
• Modular design allows reuse of sub-processes reducing development and maintenance efforts
• Validations included as part of transformation logic which ensures data quality

eQube^® Products Used

• eQube^®-MI
• eQube^® Connectors: Teamcenter, Databases
• Publish to Webservice - to communicate with SAP/PI
• Common eQube^®-MI processes used across interfaces for error handling, workflow sign-offs etc

eQube^® Benefits

• Seamless integration with Teamcenter and SAP workflows leveraging the Northrop Grumman processes
• Features such as Wait-Publish Auto Retry used to ensure data integrity & minimum human intervention
• "Upgrade tolerant" - Code-less last-mile connectivity to systems using COTS eQube connectors