UNIPLOT is a plot management for processing of technical drawings and documents. It can be simultaneously integrated in several PLM / ERP systems, and thereby optimizes cross-system work processes.
UNIPLOT provides tight integrations for the PLM systems SAP® PLM, Teamcenter and SmarTeam.
Scenario 1: You manage drawings and documents in the PLM system, until they are released. When sharing a conversion takes place in a long-term format. In the SAP system, a document master record is created from the metadata of the PLM system automatically and a long-term copy of the drawing of this document is stored.
Scenario 2: You manage both the original CAD files as the long term formats also in the PLM system. In company-wide ERP system, you create only documents master records. All employees who work with the ERP system can look for the drawings and documents and display them on UNIPLOT and plot them while the files are retrieved from the PLM system.
Scenario 3: You manage drawings and documents in multiple systems. With UNIPLOT a simultaneous search is possible in all systems, so that one set of documents can be placed together out of all systems. This is especially interesting when data is migrated over a certain period.
As a Complementary Software Partner of SAP, Advanced Software has seamlessly integrated UNIPLOT functionality into SAP. The user can search documents from out of the SAP interface using metadata and display them in the form of thumbnails. UNIPLOT is a SAP AG certified plot management system since 1999; in August 2008 there was a re-certification in the field of document management. Besides a number of integrations into SAP transactions that automatically determine the documents to be submitted, the views and outputting is everywhere possible where a document info record is displayed.
UNIPLOT offers a particularly extensive and tight integration with Teamcenter from Siemens PLM. The UNIPLOT integration into the Teamcenter portal allows in addition to normal views, exporting and printing out of the portal, i.e. the outputting of all drawings in a BOM. Whole assemblies can so be processed and all related documents can be automatically selected. Besides, access to documents can be produced via the Web-based search client worldwide where documents are required to view and print, but no PLM functionality is needed. In addition, we support the conversion of CAD and Office files.
no interruptions of plotting due to errors in the printer language.
All formats with * require the original application on the UNIPLOT server; all formats with ** require parts of the original application on the UNIPLOT server.
Whether in operating system, free, extremely expensive, 2D or 3D: The vast majority of viewers provide a wealth of features in the display of technical drawings, but they contain no concept to protect your intellectual property.
In your PLM system you have a sophisticated authorization concept introduced to ensure that only authorized persons have access to the data. But if a drawing or a document from the PLM system is loaded in the viewer, the user can output it as a rule to a printer, save copies of the file and send the file via e-mail, without the security mechanisms of the PLM system be considered.
This is the point at which the UNIPLOT-View solution joins to protect your intellectual property.
What is a secure viewer?
Drawings and documents may not be issued without stamping the document status and the origin or a copyright. In addition, user name and the date of issue should be stamped for later tracking.
Drawings and documents or parts thereof may not be uncontrollably be exportable for further use from out of the viewer or can be sent by mail. Also, the uncontrolled use in other programs must be prevented.
On the other hand may speedy operation and especially the necessary cooperation with others not be hindered!
The UNIPLOT-View solution deliberately renounce on a clipboard to secure that the drawings cannot be transferred to other programs. There is no "file" function. There are neither export nor "Save As ..." options, so that the files cannot be saved from the viewer into the file management system.
In this context, there is no local temporary file on the user's desktop PC, so that the document also cannot be copied off during the display. Furthermore, there is no editing function to change the graphic. The local print function on Windows printer can be inhibited by the administrator, so that a print with stamping and logging is only possible via UNIPLOT.
Shipping via email, while the drawings and documents are given as attachment to an e-mail that is sent to the client.
The client can then forward this email in its normal mail program where he can normally detect the accompanying text and extract the email address from its address book.
Do you want to find documents in your PLM system, without the respective PLM client is installed? If you use SAP PLM, Teamcenter, Smarteam, Agile or a SQL database as a PLM system respectively use your file management system, we have the right solution for you.
The UNIPLOT search client is a Web application that is connected to a UNIPLOT server. Via the PLM integrations of this UNIPLOT server, the search client searches documents in the connected PLM systems.
The results can be displayed with the integrated UNIPLOT View solution on screen and printed, converted and exported, or sent via email via the UNIPLOT server.
Scenario 1: You use more than one system to manage your drawings and technical documents – for example one system that includes old stocks of detached CAD systems, and a new system with current drawings and documents. Your users no longer need to consider the system in which they have to look now for every query - the search client finds the documents easily, as he researches parallel in several PLM systems.
Scenario 2: You need a system to find, display or output drawings and documents that is easy to operate and can be used anywhere. In this case, the search client as a web application with exactly this functionality is the right tool.
Scenario 3: You are traveling, for example, when visiting a customer or on a construction site, and have no direct access to your PLM system. The search client as a web application nonetheless offers access to the drawings and documents in your PLM system.
Through the integration with the UNIPLOT-View solution and the UNIPLOT-Output management a very comfortable and secure processing of the results is possible.
SMARTEAM is the trademark or registered trademark of Dassault Systèmes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.
The clients are web-based. Therefore, there is only one installation on a server. Users who have an Internet browser can use the UNIPLOT clients immediately. Even after an upgrade to the server all users immediately have the same version.