In addition to the bidirectional standard interface between PLM and Excel, the data exchange was extended by a separate PLM plug-in for Excel.

This plugin supports the user in creating Excel templates, which are later filled with information from the PLM database.
Via a separate tab in the Excel plugin, a structure tree with the usable variables from the areas Office, DMS and CEM can be called up and the provided variables inserted into the Excel sheet.
Then the template is imported into PLM, called up and the inserted variables are filled with data from the current project.