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Electronic Parts Catalog and Service Parts Databases

Posted in EPC, Enigma, PLM on May 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

What Is the Difference?
It’s only though a discussion with a vendor of “electronic parts catalogs” that we understood that this is the most common nomenclature used to describe what we describe as a service parts database. We cover service parts databases in this post below.
http://spplan.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/service-part-maintenance-databases/
Electronic parts catalogs are complex and have special needs [...]

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Is SAP PLM for Real?

Posted in PLM, SAP, SPP, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on April 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Pushing SAP PLM
For some time SAP has been promoting its product lifecycle management (PLM) solution. We should say at the outset that we don’t find the term PLM very useful. Yes there are lifecycle implications to the software, however this category of software could more accurately be described as bill of material management software. However, [...]

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ServicePartsPortal

Posted in Arena Solutions, PLM, Portals, SAP, SPP, tagged , on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We were so impressed with Arena Solutions for BOM management and PLM that we decided to create a service around it.
Arena manages bill or materials to in a very sophisticated way. We perceive a real need for capabilities in an area of software for service parts maintenance systems that allow service parts to have information [...]

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Arena Solutions and Where Used View

Posted in Arena Solutions, Master Data, PLM, SAP, SPP, Service Parts Database, tagged on December 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Arena Demo
We have been using the demo system that was nicely provided by Arena Solutions, and we found a very interesting feature called the where used view. What this allows you to do is find where a component is used and then select that parent component. Something else you should notice, is that the item [...]

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BOM and MTBF and Product Structure

Posted in Arena Solutions, MTBF, Master Data, PLM, SAP, SPP, Service Parts Database, tagged , , , , on December 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

MTBF and the Product Structure
In our previous post we discussed the different vendors and services offered for reliability testing and prediction. One of the important issues with relation to MTBF management is the product structure. The product structure is the hierarchy (or at least at first glance) of materials that make up an overall product. [...]

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Determining MTBF and ReliaTech

Posted in MTBF, PLM, SAP, SPP, tagged , , on December 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Service Parts Forecasting
The main way service parts are currently forecasted is through the development of a MTBF. The MTBF is often developed from using similar parts and can be derived mathematically. However, there are also companies that perform physical testing to develop the MTBF number. One such company is called Reliatech.

http://reliateck.com/new/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=95
You send your products [...]

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Service Part Maintenance Databases

Posted in Enigma, PLM, Plant Maintenance, SAP, SPP, Service Parts Database, tagged , , on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Service Part and Service Maintenance Database Background
Service parts require extensive documentation because of the need to capture information from service calls. Successive service calls (in addition to other research performed by the service technicians). This is of critical importance to service organizations, and the requirements for doing this would not seem to vary greatly from [...]

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Supersession and Interchangability in SAP

Posted in Inventory Optimization, PLM, SAP, tagged , , , on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »

What is Part Supersession?
Supersession is one of the most important functions in any service parts planning system. Supersession is used to both:

Substitute one part for another part
Obsolesce parts due to engineering changes driven by PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) that need to be replaced by newer versions

The supersession configuration in service parts planning systems allows [...]

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