Before the SAP Visual Enterprise sunset conversation hits your desk, here's how to audit your VDS library — file by file, BOM by BOM — so you walk in with …
Your VDS files aren't lost when SAP Visual Enterprise goes dark. But without a path forward, instruction drift starts the moment authoring freezes and BOMs keep moving.
Every work instruction vendor will tell you migration is straightforward. What they mean is that their import wizard accepts a CSV. That's not the same thing.
The gap between the instruction your operator reads and the product actually being built is almost never visible until something goes wrong. By then, it's already a quality problem.
Thousands of manufacturers built years of work instruction knowledge inside SAP Visual Enterprise. Now that authoring is frozen and support is gone, most of them are staring at a re-authoring …