Siemens Power Generation Streamlines Development of Fossil Fuel Power Plants With SAP's Product Lifecycle Management Solution

Business Wire, April 19, 2001

Business/High-Tech Editors

WALLDORF, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2001

SAP's Product Lifecycle Management Solution Enables Siemens

Power Generation To Collaborate With Partners to Install

Fossil Fuel Power Plants Around the World

SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) today announced that Siemens Power Generation (PG) has selected SAP's Product Lifecycle Management solution to replace its existing product data management solutions.

The solution provides Siemens PG with the collaborative engineering tools it and its partners need to manage the overall design and development of global fossil fuel power plant installations. With Product Lifecycle Management from SAP, Siemens PG internal resources and external partners will benefit from enterprisewide access for all aspects of the project implementation process in the new plant business, and across the entire supply chain. The solution enables Siemens PG to collaborate with its partners for more efficient engineering and communication processes.

"We have decided to utilize SAP's Product Lifecycle Management because SAP enables worldwide collaboration and communication with our suppliers, vendors and customers in an e-business way during the project implementation process," said Engelbert Prinz-Jendrysczyk, director of Engineering Tools New Plant Business, Siemens PG.

Collaborative Engineering at Siemens PG

The first phase of the SAP implementation at Siemens PG will integrate engineering tools including Intergraph P&ID (piping and instrumentation diagrams) and numerous internal engineering tools. The document management and vaulting functions, along with engineering change management, ensure that information on CAD documents, specifications and P&ID diagrams are continually updated for all engineers working on a power plant project. Using the Product Lifecycle Management capabilities offered by SAP, Siemens PG and its internal and external engineering partners will be able to access all relevant product design and development information on a power plant project.

The document distribution capabilities, along with collaborative engineering and project management, facilitate enhanced communication between Siemens PG and its partners, and enable internal and external business process collaboration for global access and availability of engineering results. Also within the project, SAP and Siemens PG are jointly developing a document management cockpit as an intuitive and central access point for all engineers to search for documents, manage document structures, and perform changes to a list of documents in one step. It will deliver all capabilities to track, manage and control the estimated 300,000 documents that are typically part of a single complex fossil fuel power plant production process. Although each fossil fuel power plant has individual characteristics and different implementation partners during the implementation process, the engineering data and document management process will be standardized for all power plant implementation projects. Accordingly, the document management cockpit includes a dynamic data-mapping tool for functional locations, document data and classification data to facilitate the exchange of different engineering and document data structures between all involved parties. The implementation at Siemens PG will be completed in June 2001.

About Siemens/Power Generation

The Power Generation Group (PG) of Siemens AG is one of the premier companies in the international power generation sector. In fiscal 1999/00 (which ended Sept. 30) Siemens PG posted sales amounting to EUR8.3 billion and received new orders totaling EUR9.4 billion. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) amounted to EUR232 million. On Sept. 30, 2000, Siemens PG had a work force of around 26,900 around the world. Further information is at http://www.pg.siemens.com.

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