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Teamcenter is an innovative product lifecycle management (PLM) system that digitally connects people and processes across functional silos. This system allows you to deliver increasingly complex products while maximizing productivity and streamlining operations. Check out Teamcenter Rapid Start for a preconfigured, out-of-the-box PDM solution.
Manage Complexity with Simplified PDM
Manage and share cross-domain design information: mechanical, electronics, software and simulation in a single environment. Fully integrate authoring and publishing of structured documents and XML content.
See detailed product and tool costs across all corporate functions. Know your complete product BOM – no matter if your products consist of a few parts managed, or more complex products containing millions of parts.
Manage all compliance related product and process information, including information originating from the supply chain. Check for compliance with industry standards and company regulations.
Teamcenter Rapid Start’s preconfigured capabilities will minimize the costs of consulting and deployment. Realize the immediate benefits of PDM with a clear growth path to PLM.
An adaptable product lifecycle management (PLM) foundation supports Siemens PLM Software applications to help you respond quickly to change from business or market disruptions. You can choose from flexible deployment options (on-premise, cloud, and pre-configured) for fast time-to-value and lower cost of ownership. Your IT team can adapt PLM to your unique business processes with configuration, not customization – and extend PLM with integrations to other best-in-class domain and enterprise applications. Administrative tools simplify IT management and maintenance, to focus on priorities that matter most to your business.
When it comes to usability, collaboration is easy when your PLM foundation is accessible from a web browser, on any device, and within the design tools and office applications people use every day. You can reach more people, across functional silos, with a PLM foundation’s digital thread to connect up-to-date information with processes so people can make good product decisions.
Start with the right PLM solution for your business needs today, as well as your budget, with assurance that you can grow to add on more capabilities over time. Whether you need to support a small team within a single site, a large enterprise with multiple globally dispersed sites and complex supply chains or anything in between, Teamcenter has the right PLM deployment option for you
Extend Teamcenter with integrations to ERP and other enterprise applications for a complete picture of your business – including engineering, manufacturing, finance and operations. Integrations with SAP® and Oracle® give you full bi-directional information exchange, or you can integrate Teamcenter with a range of other applications, depending on your business needs. Whatever best-in-class applications you rely on, you can connect them with your Teamcenter environment for seamless visibility and information exchange to effectively run your business.
You know where your business is today, but do you know where you’ll grow tomorrow? Teamcenter has the flexibility and scalability to support your business, across locations and departments. Even if you only need PLM for a small team within a single site, today, you can be assured that your PLM investment can grow as your business grows … all the way to a large enterprise with multiple globally dispersed sites and complex supply chains.
Protect your most important intellectual property from cybercrime! Teamcenter provides security solutions that are reliable, and easily deployed and maintained across your PLM system. You can align information protection and user access requirements with advanced security protocols like ITAR to safeguard your valuable product information and protect contractual relationships.
How does it feel to use PLM? A positive user experience can make all the difference. When people embrace and endorse new software, it encourages participation across your business, so you can realize more value from the investment. Teamcenter helps different types of PLM users get work done.
Effective Bill of materials management and configuration are critical to your success, whether your product consists of ten parts or ten million. As you develop more innovative products in order to remain competitive, managing accurate product definitions, including bills of materials, becomes increasingly complex. You need to coordinate the upfront planning of available options and features to meet customer demands, as well as connect with a growing number of partners and suppliers who need to be linked with manufacturing, service and support. All this means that the breadth and depth of your product definition are changing and growing. How do you manage it? How well do you really know your product?
Our solution helps you know your product by providing a common source of BOM information across your organization. Whether you need basic BOM management, or more advanced BOM management and configuration with greater flexibility and scalability, you can meet and exceed the market demand for more innovative and varied product offerings.
Leverage a flexible BOM management strategy that enables a single, accurate product definition for all who interact with the BOM. With flexibility in how you define and manage your BOM, you can provide a complete, up-to-date source of information that eliminates the need for standalone spreadsheets and systems. Teamcenter® supports up-front planning and master product definition, through design, development, manufacturing, service and more.
Teamcenter delivers flexible BOM configuration strategies that support the entire scope of product configuration; whether you offer a small set of standard products, or you need a platform with a spectrum of customer offerings or if you deal with orders engineered to each customer’s unique set of requirements. BOM configuration management enables a single definition of variability that can be leveraged from planning, through development, to manufacturing and beyond.
With BOM change management in Teamcenter, you can track changes as they’re being made and enable rich change contexts for analysis and validation. Change automation enables traceability between change and product data, as well as coordination the impact of change across architectures, configurations, designs and physical bills of material. BOM change management integrated with product content authoring helps you respond faster to market changes to get ahead of your competitors.
Teamcenter enables teams and individuals to find the information they need and work with it in a way most meaningful to them. You can quickly search and filter across massive amounts of data to find only what is required to fulfill a particular task. Then view information in a way that’s easily understood. Work in the context of your products – in predefined views, by defining your context on the fly, or through personal workspaces.
Stakeholders across the enterprise can interact with an accurate, aligned 3D representation of the BOM without asking a designer or being CAD experts themselves. This visual representation helps with clear communication, resulting in fewer errors. More robust DMU capabilities tie your virtual and physical product definitions together, providing accurate digital validation and simulation. You can digitally validate your products, ensuring that what has been designed can actually be built, eliminating costly prototypes.
Documentation tools play an essential role in the product lifecycle. Documents can be expensive to produce, and have a long life – sometimes longer than the products they describe – and can be very complex, even having to meet stringent standards in some industries. Done right, documents can be very profitable, especially when they support the service business.
Teamcenter® provides documentation tools to help your teams create specifications, analysis reports, 2D/3D illustrations, spreadsheets, test results, and technical publications. Documents and technical publications are in the same product lifecycle management (PLM) system as all your other product-related information. Document authors have direct access to up-to-date product information like bill of materials, parts lists and 3D geometry, and can work to the same milestones. With Teamcenter, you can keep your product design and documentation aligned with product changes to reduce the time and cost of development, while improving document accuracy and effectiveness.
Artwork design and packaging development requires constant communication between vendors and designers.Teamcenter Advanced Proofing can help you develop artwork and packaging more efficiently using advanced markup capabilities such as collaborative review/markup, deep zoom, color separation, and a wide range of supported file types. Comments and annotations on the file are managed and captured automatically. By collaborating on artwork design and proofing within the lifecycle, Teamcenter improves the timeliness and quality of product artwork and packaging.
With Teamcenter, you can reduce the manual effort of document production. You can create documents that are managed in Teamcenter using familiar Microsoft Office and Adobe authoring tools. You can create documents with consistent content, insert content by relating documents to product structures, and sign and release documents as they are approved. You can retain documents in Teamcenter for specific product configurations and revisions, so they can be re-used and referenced for future product development.
Highly descriptive technical publications can be very profitable, especially when they help manufacturing and service teams be more productive. RapidAuthor for Teamcenter extends your investment in engineering design data by reusing that content directly in technical documentation. CAD and PLM XML content is converted directly to text and 2D/3D graphics and animations, to give people a better sense of how products work and what decisions need to be made to manufacture and service them.
Quality products mean quality documentation – parts catalogs, training guides, operations, and repair manuals. Teamcenter Content Management provides topic and data module management and a dynamic publishing environment within PLM, enabling your tech writers and illustrators to automate the assembly and publishing of product or service information in multiple languages and formats, specific to your product configurations. The result is effective, product-specific technical publications, and faster time-to-market.
Teamcenter®, from Siemens PLM Software, brings together all your electrical computer-aided design (CAD) data in a single design management environment.
With Teamcenter electrical CAD management, you can automate your engineering change, validation and approval processes to speed cycle time and improve product quality. Collaborate with design data, revisions and product configurations – across locations and extended supply chains. Digital mock-up and validation capabilities provide visibility to design changes in real-time. You can validate changes against every configuration, and visualize, probe, section, analyze and mark up. Version management and access controls mean the right people have the right information.
Teamcenter® PCB management software enables you to integrate your global electronics design teams and suppliers by bringing together the PCB and other ECAD data from all your sites within a single PLM system. Find the right electronics data quickly and eliminate inconsistent and inaccurate PCB part data using enterprise-wide ECAD parts library management inside of PLM. You can also leverage ECAD visualization, ECAD-MCAD co-design, and assembly test and analysis.
Teamcenter supports a comprehensive electrical distribution and wire harness lifecycle management solution that spans across inception, creation, analysis, manufacturing, service and end-of-life disposition. Management of the data and processes enables cross-domain design teams to collaborate and create complete and accurate digital mockups that contain mechanical and electrical components. Leveraging Teamcenter software’s requirements management, workflow management, configuration management, and change control functionality it enables design teams to improve quality, accelerate time-to-market and reduce development cost.
No matter what kind of product you make, your customers demand choices. To meet those demands, you must be able to effectively manage product configurations. This has often been thought of as a design problem, but the reality is that decisions are made about what product variants to offer long before a designer begins his work. The implications of those decisions impact people across the product lifecycle.
With product configuration inside PLM, you can meet the demand for more advanced and varied product offerings, without driving up costs. Leverage the product configuration backbone in Teamcenter® to provide a common definition of variability across the lifecycle. Take control of your product configurations – whether you deliver products with a defined set of supported variants, more complex products with an exponential number of possible variations and combinations, or engineered to order products that require new variants of parts and designs with every order.
With engineer-to-order capabilities in Rulestream and Teamcenter, you can automate product and process rules. With this automation, you can address new requirements quickly and accurately while ensuring that you meet the constraints determined by your organization. You can create bid and manufacturing packages in minutes rather than weeks. Using Rulestream, you can support customer demands for engineer-to-order products while still remaining profitable.
Deliver the variety your customers demand while driving profitability. Teamcenter enables a single definition of variability across domains and the lifecycle. Product options aren’t tied to design data, but are managed independently to be leveraged across the organization. This provides an easy to use common source of configuration data. Planners can define products, product lines and features they want bring to market. Engineers can focus on valid configurations. Manufacturing can generate a BOP leveraging that same definition.
To truly manage and automate configured products, you need more than a standalone engineer-to-order system and more than standalone product configuration management tools or systems. Siemens PLM provides an integrated product configuration management solution, that enables you leverage the strength of Teamcenter and Rulestream together, as well as the unique capabilities offered by other software. Siemens product configuration management solution integrates with some of the most powerful tools you already use to run your business.
Leverage the single definition of variability to ensure that any user, regardless of role or domain, works only with valid configurations. Guided product configuration limits the features and choices that you can make so that you only see choices that are allowed. This ensures every stakeholder is focused on the products you plan to bring to market.
With product configuration management inside of PLM, you can leverage robust 3D visualization capabilities in Teamcenter to provide accurate geometry, on demand, for any valid configuration. Users throughout your process, regardless of their level of CAD expertise, can see real time 3D visuals of the products, configured as they have chosen. You can visualize and validate throughout the process, helping to catch errors early in the process.
Integrating supplier management software into your product lifecycle management (PLM) strategy is critical for success in today’s market. Increased complexity and compressed production cycles are driving products that are designed and validated by globally dispersed teams, including suppliers. As your suppliers assume more responsibility for greater portions of your products, you need them to interact with people across your business — such as purchasing, engineering, compliance, quality, and manufacturing — to increase productivity and reduce the risk of recalls and non-compliance.
Teamcenter Product Lifecycle Management software provides a comprehensive approach to managing interactions with Sourcing & Suppliers. You can coordinate processes and manage information, both internal and external, across all stages of your product lifecycle. You can drive early supplier involvement in product development and provide visibility into accurate supplier information across departments. Supplier information can be managed in context with the product structure to provide holistic views of your product.
With Teamcenter Design Data Exchange, you can exchange controlled packages of design data with suppliers outside of your Teamcenter environment, using efficient, secure, and scalable supplier integration capabilities. Traceability, audit, and version control of your design exchange packages enable efficient, effective, and transparent process execution. Suppliers use a secure web portal to receive requests and data packages from you, and they can use the same portal to upload and submit responses back to you
With Direct Materials Sourcing, you can understand cost drivers early in the product lifecycle and understand supply chain impact before changes are approved. Some of the capabilities of this solution include efficient early bidding processes featuring RFx (request for information, proposal or quotation) template authoring, a database of potential suppliers qualified by categories, controlled processes for managing events including multiple round processing, automatic tracking and communication, detailed cost breakdowns, bid analysis, and award nominations.
With Teamcenter Supplier Collaboration, you can extend your product lifecycle management (PLM) processes and data to your non-Teamcenter suppliers efficiently through real process integration. You can collaborate with your suppliers through interactions including Design Data Exchange, Direct Materials Sourcing and Supplier Program Management, all using the same PLM Supplier Collaboration Foundation.
Teamcenter can help you collaborate with suppliers who have authorized access to your Teamcenter environment. Trusted suppliers can securely participate in your PLM processes, and only work with data that you grant them access to. Teamcenter multi-site collaboration enables you to selectively share and synchronize supplier data, all within a secure, controlled PLM environment. Teamcenter visualization capabilities allow suppliers to participate in design reviews, without the requirement of co-location or CAD tool standardization.
With supplier program management, you can plan and execute supplier projects within the context of an overall program. This provides visibility into and traceability of supplier deliverables to reduce cycle times and shorten time-to-market.
Teamcenter® search and analytics capabilities provide you with a streamlined and intuitive product lifecycle management (PLM) search experience to help you quickly find the data you need. It literally puts PLM data at your fingertips, in a view that you can understand, when you need it. Teamcenter allows you to find what you need faster, enabling you to see the big picture and analyze your findings. With highly intuitive search capabilities, Teamcenter visually presents search results in logical groups, making it easy for you to drill-down through product structures and relationships to quickly find what you are looking for. Teamcenter reporting and analytics provides you with a web-based, easy-to-use solution that compiles and aggregates data produced throughout the lifecycle from multiple data sources. You get the results you need quickly, in an intuitive format, to know your product better and make better decisions.
Visibility into the cumulative knowledge of product development is critical to making smart business decisions. It takes a single source of reporting and analytics information to deliver the insight necessary for you to fully know your product. Natural language self-service reporting helps you efficiently create new analytics and out-of-the-box reports help you quickly gain an understanding of your products and processes.
Teamcenter visually presents search results in logical groups, making it easy for you to drill-down and find what you need. Intuitive search and product structure navigation and related data browsing makes it easy for you to navigate through relevant PLM information. Teamcenter helps you find the right information quickly and easily. Increase productivity by finding the right information, in the context of the task at hand, faster and easier than ever before.
Teamcenter, from Siemens PLM Software, provides digital mockup and visualization capabilities so everyone in the product lifecycle can access and collaborate with 2D and 3D design data and make informed decisions. PLM visualization, powered by JT technology, allows you to visualize and investigate your design data with ease. With JT2Go, which is available at no charge, you can easily collaborate on rich design data with all of your suppliers and external partners.
Teamcenter streamlines your engineering and manufacturing processes by creating virtual prototypes from multiple mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) formats instead of building costly physical prototypes to perform more specialized studies, such as ergonomics and path planning. Teamcenter is compatible with the latest VR devices, including the HTC Vive™, Oculus Rift™ and the zSpace® device, so you can perform form, fit and function studies, and conduct design reviews, by immersing yourself in the virtual world of the product’s digital twin.
2D/3D visualization and markup capabilities enable you to navigate complex models through hierarchical product structures and facilitate rich knowledge exchange throughout the product lifecycle. You can access and visualize design information, including 3D CAD data (in JT™ format) and 2D drawings in most major 2D formats. Advanced annotation capabilities allow you to create 3D markups directly on a part and enable reviewers to provide feedback in the context of the design without requiring translation-related interruption.
Use real-time digital mockup tools to detect and resolve design issues using the product’s digital twin early in your product lifecycle. Teamcenter visualization mockup capabilities enable you to create high-level digital prototypes comprised of thousands of parts. You can check interferences, conduct part motion studies, and determine whether sufficient accessibility is provided to facilitate maintenance procedures. You can distribute the universally viewable information to other team members to annotate concerns or incorporate alternative design concepts.
Sharing visualization data with suppliers using JT2Go streamlines collaboration between you and your supply chain. JT2Go is a no-cost deploy-on-demand 3D viewing product available on Windows, Android and IOS platforms that enables you to share detailed 3D product and manufacturing information (PMI) using the lightweight 3D JT format. The viewer enables product development teams and supply chains to easily review drawings and interrogate 3D product information and collaborate in the context of complete bills-of-material (BOM).
Virtual reality (VR) systems enable the digital twin to be reviewed in an immersive virtual environment with true 1:1 scale realism. Using JT format data this environment for formal and informal design review, manufacturing planning, and serviceability assessment is especially effective with non-computer-aided design (CAD) oriented stakeholders. VR environments improve decision making by enabling you to better assess and resolve ergonomic factors such as sight lines, reachability, and clearances earlier in the lifecycle.
An adaptable product lifecycle management (PLM) foundation supports Siemens PLM Software applications to help you respond quickly to change from business or market disruptions. You can choose from flexible deployment options (on-premise, cloud, and pre-configured) for fast time-to-value and lower cost of ownership. Your IT team can adapt PLM to your unique business processes with configuration, not customization – and extend PLM with integrations to other best-in-class domain and enterprise applications. Administrative tools simplify IT management and maintenance, to focus on priorities that matter most to your business.
When it comes to usability, collaboration is easy when your PLM foundation is accessible from a web browser, on any device, and within the design tools and office applications people use every day. You can reach more people, across functional silos, with a PLM foundation’s digital thread to connect up-to-date information with processes so people can make good product decisions.
Start with the right PLM solution for your business needs today, as well as your budget, with assurance that you can grow to add on more capabilities over time. Whether you need to support a small team within a single site, a large enterprise with multiple globally dispersed sites and complex supply chains or anything in between, Teamcenter has the right PLM deployment option for you
Extend Teamcenter with integrations to ERP and other enterprise applications for a complete picture of your business – including engineering, manufacturing, finance and operations. Integrations with SAP® and Oracle® give you full bi-directional information exchange, or you can integrate Teamcenter with a range of other applications, depending on your business needs. Whatever best-in-class applications you rely on, you can connect them with your Teamcenter environment for seamless visibility and information exchange to effectively run your business.
You know where your business is today, but do you know where you’ll grow tomorrow? Teamcenter has the flexibility and scalability to support your business, across locations and departments. Even if you only need PLM for a small team within a single site, today, you can be assured that your PLM investment can grow as your business grows … all the way to a large enterprise with multiple globally dispersed sites and complex supply chains.
Protect your most important intellectual property from cybercrime! Teamcenter provides security solutions that are reliable, and easily deployed and maintained across your PLM system. You can align information protection and user access requirements with advanced security protocols like ITAR to safeguard your valuable product information and protect contractual relationships.
How does it feel to use PLM? A positive user experience can make all the difference. When people embrace and endorse new software, it encourages participation across your business, so you can realize more value from the investment. Teamcenter helps different types of PLM users get work done.
Effective Bill of materials management and configuration are critical to your success, whether your product consists of ten parts or ten million. As you develop more innovative products in order to remain competitive, managing accurate product definitions, including bills of materials, becomes increasingly complex. You need to coordinate the upfront planning of available options and features to meet customer demands, as well as connect with a growing number of partners and suppliers who need to be linked with manufacturing, service and support. All this means that the breadth and depth of your product definition are changing and growing. How do you manage it? How well do you really know your product?
Our solution helps you know your product by providing a common source of BOM information across your organization. Whether you need basic BOM management, or more advanced BOM management and configuration with greater flexibility and scalability, you can meet and exceed the market demand for more innovative and varied product offerings.
Leverage a flexible BOM management strategy that enables a single, accurate product definition for all who interact with the BOM. With flexibility in how you define and manage your BOM, you can provide a complete, up-to-date source of information that eliminates the need for standalone spreadsheets and systems. Teamcenter® supports up-front planning and master product definition, through design, development, manufacturing, service and more.
Teamcenter delivers flexible BOM configuration strategies that support the entire scope of product configuration; whether you offer a small set of standard products, or you need a platform with a spectrum of customer offerings or if you deal with orders engineered to each customer’s unique set of requirements. BOM configuration management enables a single definition of variability that can be leveraged from planning, through development, to manufacturing and beyond.
With BOM change management in Teamcenter, you can track changes as they’re being made and enable rich change contexts for analysis and validation. Change automation enables traceability between change and product data, as well as coordination the impact of change across architectures, configurations, designs and physical bills of material. BOM change management integrated with product content authoring helps you respond faster to market changes to get ahead of your competitors.
Teamcenter enables teams and individuals to find the information they need and work with it in a way most meaningful to them. You can quickly search and filter across massive amounts of data to find only what is required to fulfill a particular task. Then view information in a way that’s easily understood. Work in the context of your products – in predefined views, by defining your context on the fly, or through personal workspaces.
Stakeholders across the enterprise can interact with an accurate, aligned 3D representation of the BOM without asking a designer or being CAD experts themselves. This visual representation helps with clear communication, resulting in fewer errors. More robust DMU capabilities tie your virtual and physical product definitions together, providing accurate digital validation and simulation. You can digitally validate your products, ensuring that what has been designed can actually be built, eliminating costly prototypes.
Documentation tools play an essential role in the product lifecycle. Documents can be expensive to produce, and have a long life – sometimes longer than the products they describe – and can be very complex, even having to meet stringent standards in some industries. Done right, documents can be very profitable, especially when they support the service business.
Teamcenter® provides documentation tools to help your teams create specifications, analysis reports, 2D/3D illustrations, spreadsheets, test results, and technical publications. Documents and technical publications are in the same product lifecycle management (PLM) system as all your other product-related information. Document authors have direct access to up-to-date product information like bill of materials, parts lists and 3D geometry, and can work to the same milestones. With Teamcenter, you can keep your product design and documentation aligned with product changes to reduce the time and cost of development, while improving document accuracy and effectiveness.
Artwork design and packaging development requires constant communication between vendors and designers.Teamcenter Advanced Proofing can help you develop artwork and packaging more efficiently using advanced markup capabilities such as collaborative review/markup, deep zoom, color separation, and a wide range of supported file types. Comments and annotations on the file are managed and captured automatically. By collaborating on artwork design and proofing within the lifecycle, Teamcenter improves the timeliness and quality of product artwork and packaging.
With Teamcenter, you can reduce the manual effort of document production. You can create documents that are managed in Teamcenter using familiar Microsoft Office and Adobe authoring tools. You can create documents with consistent content, insert content by relating documents to product structures, and sign and release documents as they are approved. You can retain documents in Teamcenter for specific product configurations and revisions, so they can be re-used and referenced for future product development.
Highly descriptive technical publications can be very profitable, especially when they help manufacturing and service teams be more productive. RapidAuthor for Teamcenter extends your investment in engineering design data by reusing that content directly in technical documentation. CAD and PLM XML content is converted directly to text and 2D/3D graphics and animations, to give people a better sense of how products work and what decisions need to be made to manufacture and service them.
Quality products mean quality documentation – parts catalogs, training guides, operations, and repair manuals. Teamcenter Content Management provides topic and data module management and a dynamic publishing environment within PLM, enabling your tech writers and illustrators to automate the assembly and publishing of product or service information in multiple languages and formats, specific to your product configurations. The result is effective, product-specific technical publications, and faster time-to-market.
Teamcenter®, from Siemens PLM Software, brings together all your electrical computer-aided design (CAD) data in a single design management environment.
With Teamcenter electrical CAD management, you can automate your engineering change, validation and approval processes to speed cycle time and improve product quality. Collaborate with design data, revisions and product configurations – across locations and extended supply chains. Digital mock-up and validation capabilities provide visibility to design changes in real-time. You can validate changes against every configuration, and visualize, probe, section, analyze and mark up. Version management and access controls mean the right people have the right information.
Teamcenter® PCB management software enables you to integrate your global electronics design teams and suppliers by bringing together the PCB and other ECAD data from all your sites within a single PLM system. Find the right electronics data quickly and eliminate inconsistent and inaccurate PCB part data using enterprise-wide ECAD parts library management inside of PLM. You can also leverage ECAD visualization, ECAD-MCAD co-design, and assembly test and analysis.
Teamcenter supports a comprehensive electrical distribution and wire harness lifecycle management solution that spans across inception, creation, analysis, manufacturing, service and end-of-life disposition. Management of the data and processes enables cross-domain design teams to collaborate and create complete and accurate digital mockups that contain mechanical and electrical components. Leveraging Teamcenter software’s requirements management, workflow management, configuration management, and change control functionality it enables design teams to improve quality, accelerate time-to-market and reduce development cost.
No matter what kind of product you make, your customers demand choices. To meet those demands, you must be able to effectively manage product configurations. This has often been thought of as a design problem, but the reality is that decisions are made about what product variants to offer long before a designer begins his work. The implications of those decisions impact people across the product lifecycle.
With product configuration inside PLM, you can meet the demand for more advanced and varied product offerings, without driving up costs. Leverage the product configuration backbone in Teamcenter® to provide a common definition of variability across the lifecycle. Take control of your product configurations – whether you deliver products with a defined set of supported variants, more complex products with an exponential number of possible variations and combinations, or engineered to order products that require new variants of parts and designs with every order.
With engineer-to-order capabilities in Rulestream and Teamcenter, you can automate product and process rules. With this automation, you can address new requirements quickly and accurately while ensuring that you meet the constraints determined by your organization. You can create bid and manufacturing packages in minutes rather than weeks. Using Rulestream, you can support customer demands for engineer-to-order products while still remaining profitable.
Deliver the variety your customers demand while driving profitability. Teamcenter enables a single definition of variability across domains and the lifecycle. Product options aren’t tied to design data, but are managed independently to be leveraged across the organization. This provides an easy to use common source of configuration data. Planners can define products, product lines and features they want bring to market. Engineers can focus on valid configurations. Manufacturing can generate a BOP leveraging that same definition.
To truly manage and automate configured products, you need more than a standalone engineer-to-order system and more than standalone product configuration management tools or systems. Siemens PLM provides an integrated product configuration management solution, that enables you leverage the strength of Teamcenter and Rulestream together, as well as the unique capabilities offered by other software. Siemens product configuration management solution integrates with some of the most powerful tools you already use to run your business.
Leverage the single definition of variability to ensure that any user, regardless of role or domain, works only with valid configurations. Guided product configuration limits the features and choices that you can make so that you only see choices that are allowed. This ensures every stakeholder is focused on the products you plan to bring to market.
With product configuration management inside of PLM, you can leverage robust 3D visualization capabilities in Teamcenter to provide accurate geometry, on demand, for any valid configuration. Users throughout your process, regardless of their level of CAD expertise, can see real time 3D visuals of the products, configured as they have chosen. You can visualize and validate throughout the process, helping to catch errors early in the process.
Integrating supplier management software into your product lifecycle management (PLM) strategy is critical for success in today’s market. Increased complexity and compressed production cycles are driving products that are designed and validated by globally dispersed teams, including suppliers. As your suppliers assume more responsibility for greater portions of your products, you need them to interact with people across your business — such as purchasing, engineering, compliance, quality, and manufacturing — to increase productivity and reduce the risk of recalls and non-compliance.
Teamcenter Product Lifecycle Management software provides a comprehensive approach to managing interactions with Sourcing & Suppliers. You can coordinate processes and manage information, both internal and external, across all stages of your product lifecycle. You can drive early supplier involvement in product development and provide visibility into accurate supplier information across departments. Supplier information can be managed in context with the product structure to provide holistic views of your product.
With Teamcenter Design Data Exchange, you can exchange controlled packages of design data with suppliers outside of your Teamcenter environment, using efficient, secure, and scalable supplier integration capabilities. Traceability, audit, and version control of your design exchange packages enable efficient, effective, and transparent process execution. Suppliers use a secure web portal to receive requests and data packages from you, and they can use the same portal to upload and submit responses back to you
With Direct Materials Sourcing, you can understand cost drivers early in the product lifecycle and understand supply chain impact before changes are approved. Some of the capabilities of this solution include efficient early bidding processes featuring RFx (request for information, proposal or quotation) template authoring, a database of potential suppliers qualified by categories, controlled processes for managing events including multiple round processing, automatic tracking and communication, detailed cost breakdowns, bid analysis, and award nominations.
With Teamcenter Supplier Collaboration, you can extend your product lifecycle management (PLM) processes and data to your non-Teamcenter suppliers efficiently through real process integration. You can collaborate with your suppliers through interactions including Design Data Exchange, Direct Materials Sourcing and Supplier Program Management, all using the same PLM Supplier Collaboration Foundation.
Teamcenter can help you collaborate with suppliers who have authorized access to your Teamcenter environment. Trusted suppliers can securely participate in your PLM processes, and only work with data that you grant them access to. Teamcenter multi-site collaboration enables you to selectively share and synchronize supplier data, all within a secure, controlled PLM environment. Teamcenter visualization capabilities allow suppliers to participate in design reviews, without the requirement of co-location or CAD tool standardization.
With supplier program management, you can plan and execute supplier projects within the context of an overall program. This provides visibility into and traceability of supplier deliverables to reduce cycle times and shorten time-to-market.
Teamcenter® search and analytics capabilities provide you with a streamlined and intuitive product lifecycle management (PLM) search experience to help you quickly find the data you need. It literally puts PLM data at your fingertips, in a view that you can understand, when you need it. Teamcenter allows you to find what you need faster, enabling you to see the big picture and analyze your findings. With highly intuitive search capabilities, Teamcenter visually presents search results in logical groups, making it easy for you to drill-down through product structures and relationships to quickly find what you are looking for. Teamcenter reporting and analytics provides you with a web-based, easy-to-use solution that compiles and aggregates data produced throughout the lifecycle from multiple data sources. You get the results you need quickly, in an intuitive format, to know your product better and make better decisions.
Visibility into the cumulative knowledge of product development is critical to making smart business decisions. It takes a single source of reporting and analytics information to deliver the insight necessary for you to fully know your product. Natural language self-service reporting helps you efficiently create new analytics and out-of-the-box reports help you quickly gain an understanding of your products and processes.
Teamcenter visually presents search results in logical groups, making it easy for you to drill-down and find what you need. Intuitive search and product structure navigation and related data browsing makes it easy for you to navigate through relevant PLM information. Teamcenter helps you find the right information quickly and easily. Increase productivity by finding the right information, in the context of the task at hand, faster and easier than ever before.
Teamcenter, from Siemens PLM Software, provides digital mockup and visualization capabilities so everyone in the product lifecycle can access and collaborate with 2D and 3D design data and make informed decisions. PLM visualization, powered by JT technology, allows you to visualize and investigate your design data with ease. With JT2Go, which is available at no charge, you can easily collaborate on rich design data with all of your suppliers and external partners.
Teamcenter streamlines your engineering and manufacturing processes by creating virtual prototypes from multiple mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) formats instead of building costly physical prototypes to perform more specialized studies, such as ergonomics and path planning. Teamcenter is compatible with the latest VR devices, including the HTC Vive™, Oculus Rift™ and the zSpace® device, so you can perform form, fit and function studies, and conduct design reviews, by immersing yourself in the virtual world of the product’s digital twin.
2D/3D visualization and markup capabilities enable you to navigate complex models through hierarchical product structures and facilitate rich knowledge exchange throughout the product lifecycle. You can access and visualize design information, including 3D CAD data (in JT™ format) and 2D drawings in most major 2D formats. Advanced annotation capabilities allow you to create 3D markups directly on a part and enable reviewers to provide feedback in the context of the design without requiring translation-related interruption.
Use real-time digital mockup tools to detect and resolve design issues using the product’s digital twin early in your product lifecycle. Teamcenter visualization mockup capabilities enable you to create high-level digital prototypes comprised of thousands of parts. You can check interferences, conduct part motion studies, and determine whether sufficient accessibility is provided to facilitate maintenance procedures. You can distribute the universally viewable information to other team members to annotate concerns or incorporate alternative design concepts.
Sharing visualization data with suppliers using JT2Go streamlines collaboration between you and your supply chain. JT2Go is a no-cost deploy-on-demand 3D viewing product available on Windows, Android and IOS platforms that enables you to share detailed 3D product and manufacturing information (PMI) using the lightweight 3D JT format. The viewer enables product development teams and supply chains to easily review drawings and interrogate 3D product information and collaborate in the context of complete bills-of-material (BOM).
Virtual reality (VR) systems enable the digital twin to be reviewed in an immersive virtual environment with true 1:1 scale realism. Using JT format data this environment for formal and informal design review, manufacturing planning, and serviceability assessment is especially effective with non-computer-aided design (CAD) oriented stakeholders. VR environments improve decision making by enabling you to better assess and resolve ergonomic factors such as sight lines, reachability, and clearances earlier in the lifecycle.
With the aid of Teamcenter, you can:
Reduce time and effort with a single source for generating and managing requirement documents Improve quality by linking requirements to functional, logical and physical implementation so you can verify and validate requirements are met Ensure compliance by defining, managing and tracing customer requirements across the entire product lifecycle.
