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May 14, 2011 at 04:11 PM

Versions and Revisions

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Hi Friends,

I have a scenario. Assume a product based company. Products keep changing often and many times undergoes ECM. Say now there is a product with Rev" B" which is in mfg and mfg engineer will say a change is required for the product. It undergoes ECM process. Design Engineer (DE) will modify it as per mfg engineer and check in. Now it will become B.1. Again the reviewer will reject with some correction and DE will modify it and check in and it will become B.2. Likewise after many rejections, It will end up in say B.15 before it gets released to Rev"C". Meaning, 15 times it has been checked in into the PDM system before getting finalized for Next revision. This is how normally engineering/Change implementation team works for the change and how PDM will help us. The case what I explained is for Wind chill PDMLink for one particular industry.

Let us try to match the same with SAP DMS. Here we donu2019t have separate revision and version but have only version say AA is the initial version. When undergoes change through ECM, it will become AB and further AC, AD etc. This is equivalent to Rev u201CA/B/C" etc in my above case. But how to track the version numbers here in SAP DMS? I can see all versions when I click on original tab but I cannot see the version numbers like that of PDMLink.

Do you have any idea like how to get the same feel like that of Wind-chill PDMLink in SAP PLM ?

Rgds,

SM