Windchill ESI Features
The following are some of the key features provided by Windchill ESI:
• Enables Windchill PDMLink users to publish various business objects to SAP.
• Supports publishing from a Windchill PDMLink instance to one or more SAP instances.
• Allows users to create or change parts, BOMs, documents associated to parts, operations and certain types of manufacturing resources, and standalone documents or standalone option sets in SAP from Windchill PDMLink.
• Allows users to create or change manufacturing objects such as process plans, operations, sequences, control characteristics and resources in SAP from Windchill PDMLink.
• Allows users to create Change Notices (CNs) in SAP from Windchill PDMLink.
• Captures the publishing history for all parts, BOMs, documents, option sets, CAD document structures, promotion requests and CNs in Windchill PDMLink.
• Captures the publishing history for manufacturing objects (process plans, operations, sequences, control characteristics and resources) in Windchill PDMLink.
• Provides an architectural foundation that can be extended and enhanced for a greater scope of functionality.
• Option Set information is available in Windchill ESI response only and the Option Set will not get included in the SAP out of the box (OOTB). You must customize Option Set information present in the Windchill ESI response to consume Option Set information in SAP.
The provided default features allow you to:
• Publish new and changed parts, BOMs, documents associated to parts, manufacturing objects and resources, option sets, and new Change Notices (CNs).
• Publish new and changed manufacturing resources such as process materials, skills and tooling.
• Publish new and changed control characteristics associated to parts and operations.
• Publish objects from within Windchill PDMLink using the following methods:
◦ Sample workflow
◦ Customized workflow
◦ Custom calls to various functions available in Windchill PDMLink
◦ Ad hoc operations from a menu option in the object information page
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Although a CAD document structure that is released from Windchill PDMLink may be sent with the ESI response, only the documents that make up the structure (and not their interrelationships) would be published to SAP.
Technical Overview of Windchill ESI  |