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Teamcenter Overview
Powering innovation with knowledge
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By providing a comprehensive portfolio of digital product lifecycle
management solutions, Teamcenter ® enables you to maximize the
power of your product knowledge and leverage it to increase the
profitability and productivity of every stage in your product lifecycle.

Business challenges
In today’s digitized economy,
product lifecycle management
(PLM) provides your company
with a unique opportunity to:
Maximize your product lifecycle’s
power to innovate, which
translates into higher revenues,
greater market share, faster
take-to-market times and
improved portfolio success rates.
Transform the decision-making
processes that you use to
determine what products you
should offer, how these products
should be brought to market
and who delivers the most
business value across your
entire product lifecycle.
Increase the value of your product
knowledge by managing this diverse
intellectual capital on an enterprise
basis and leveraging it across
multiple programs and revenuegenerating
initiatives.
Minimize lifecycle cost by replacing
time-consuming traditional
processes with fully digitalized,
accelerated solutions.
To realize these opportunities
and enable your product lifecycle
to maximize its business value,
PLM solutions need to:
Facilitate competitiveness by
enabling your company to establish
and rigorously execute lean
lifecycle processes.
Improve business system
interoperability by enabling every
entitled participant in your product
lifecycle to exchange and share
their product knowledge even
though this information was
created under incompatible
systems operating in disparate
geographic, organizational and
technological domains.
Increase product quality by
implementing systematic change
controls, accommodating
late-breaking configuration
changes, synchronizing multiple
BOMs and eliminating redundant
product designs.
Optimize the use of factory
resources by enabling your company
to link its people, plants and
processes, account for design
change impact on manufacturing
and adopt fully effective design-for
manufacturability initiatives.
Improve sourcing and supply chain
efficiency by eliminating delivery
delays, removing collaboration
barriers, reducing part proliferation
and facilitating more effective
data sharing.
To address these challenges
through product innovation and
process improvement, UGS
offers Teamcenter digital
lifecycle management.

Introducing Teamcenter
Teamcenter powers innovation and productivity by
connecting people and processes with knowledge.
Teamcenter’s comprehensive portfolio of proven
digital lifecycle management solutions is built on an
open PLM foundation. Teamcenter is the de facto
standard for PLM deployments and is backed by UGS’
leadership in delivery.
Business solutions
Teamcenter’s solutions for new product development
and introduction (NPDI) and global product
development link OEMs, partners and suppliers
with secure, global access to product knowledge,
enabling product development process excellence.
Teamcenter links product development with
downstream lifecycle processes by offering solutions
for global manufacturing; maintenance, repair and
overhaul (MRO); and strategic sourcing. By enabling
consistent, repeatable processes and commonality,
Teamcenter supports regulatory compliance
throughout the lifecycle.
With solutions targeted at critical business initiatives,
Teamcenter addresses the key issues facing businesses
today – accelerating time-to-market, delivering the
right products to market at the right time, extending
product life to maximize revenues while increasing
productivity and reducing product costs. Teamcenter
transcends organizational and geographic boundaries
to provide people with immediate access to product
knowledge, resulting in faster cycle times, better
decisions, less waste and greater accountability
throughout the product lifecycle.
Proven delivery
Teamcenter’s business solutions already include best
practices and industry-specific processes, enabling your
company to:
• Rapidly deploy your solution
• Obtain a quick return on your PLM investment
• Minimize your cost of ownership
• Ensure solution acceptance across your user
communities
In addition, UGS consultants are available to help get
your Teamcenter solution up and running as quickly
and cost effectively as possible. Equally important,
UGS consulting services can work with you to mentor
your staff in the best ways to accelerate your success
in real-world, full-production settings.
Teamcenter solutions target critical business initiatives
New product development and introduction (NPDI)
Capitalize, plan and execute innovative product ideas
Regulatory compliance
Manage compliance throughout the product lifecycle
Global product development
Design anywhere, build anywhere with global teams, suppliers
and partners
Strategic sourcing
Collaborate with suppliers early in the product lifecycle
Global manufacturing
Build better products faster and more cost effectively
Maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO)
Link configuration and information to operational performance
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Teamcenter’s business value
Teamcenter delivers a wide range of benefits that translate directly
to your company’s top-line and bottom-line business results.
Accelerating time-to-market
Traditionally, companies executed the product lifecycle in timeconsuming
serial processes that delayed the participation of
downstream contributors, such as suppliers, manufacturing experts
and service/maintenance providers. By allowing your enterprise to
execute as many of its lifecycle tasks as possible in parallel processes,
Teamcenter enables you to streamline and collapse critical stages in
your product lifecycle. Teamcenter delivers aligned, accurate and
highly synchronized product knowledge to multiple disciplines
early in your lifecycle – avoiding the cost and scheduling impact that
comes when late suggestions
and unexpected concerns
arise from downstream
players. Getting to market
> Engineering change
90 percent faster
sooner ultimately means more revenue, as well as establishing
an advantage over competitors who vie with you for the same
market space.
Maximizing top-line growth
Teamcenter enables you to beat the competition to market with
innovative product content that carries pricing premiums and drives
early product sales. Teamcenter allows you to create, capture and share
the product related expectations and preferences of your targeted
customers and to align these requirements to specific design elements.
As a result, your enterprise is positioned to deliver the product
content that your customers
want for a price they can afford
at the time when it is needed.
Teamcenter allows you to cost
effectively deliver product
> RFQ response
30 percent faster with
higher win ratio
enhancements, derivatives, niche offerings and add-ons that extend
the profitable duration of your product lifecycle. Taken together, these
capabilities enable you to maximize the top-line business impact of
your product lifecycle.
Minimizing product and lifecycle costs
Teamcenter allows you to slash cost across all of the stages in your
product lifecycle – which in turn enables you to minimize the cost
of the product offerings that you plan, develop, manufacture and
service. For example, by leveraging
Teamcenter to understand the time
and resource impacts of proposed
design changes and requirements
changes, you can make decisions
that minimize your lifecycle and
product costs. By using Teamcenter
to catch design flaws upfront
in your lifecycle, you can avoid
the cascading rework and cost
associated with changing your
products during the manufacturing
stages of your product lifecycle.
> Component selection
2 to 5 percent
materials savings
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By utilizing Teamcenter to incorporate the concerns of your
maintenance and service groups into your product designs, you can
minimize your warranty costs.
By digitally creating and re-using
your manufacturing plans, plant
information and manufacturing
processes, you can reduce your
overall operational costs. By
> Specification
management
2 to 5 percent
materials savings
leveraging Teamcenter to implement virtual prototyping, you
can drastically reduce the validation costs associated with
physical prototyping.
Dramatically increasing product quality
By using Teamcenter to capture quality constraints and integrate
them into your product definitions, you can rigorously assess these
metrics as they evolve across every stage in your product lifecycle.
The automated processes that you implement under Teamcenter
enable you to enforce your corporate standards and business rules
on a systematic and repeatable basis. You can use Teamcenter as a
collaborative venue for conducting ongoing reviews (e.g., concept
studies, program reviews, design reviews, change reviews) that consider
the quality concerns of all the stakeholders in your product lifecycle.
You can leverage Teamcenter to rapidly conduct validation tests
that ensure quality in terms of your products’ packaging, functionality
usability, engineering, manufacturability and serviceability. Teamcenter
lets you rigorously evaluate the quality of your products in their
in-service state, as well as the quality of your service groups
performance. Equally important, you can use Teamcenter to establish
feedback loops (e.g., between engineering and services, as well as
between engineering and manufacturing) that drive your quality
programs on a cross-discipline basis.
Facilitating process innovation
Teamcenter enables you to establish automated processes to
improve the most crucial stages in the product lifecycle. You can use
Teamcenter to establish workflow rules, define user roles, configure
state-specific product knowledge, launch work tasks and audit/track
the execution of individual lifecycle processes. Teamcenter enables
you to implement requirements-driven design – where product
requirements flow through your product development process and
directly influence the decisions you make regarding machine tool
design, factory layout, ergonomic design, project scheduling, CAE
validation and a myriad of other issues. You can accelerate your
product test and verification procedures by using Teamcenter to
perform repeatable digital validation. Similarly, you can leverage
Teamcenter to digitally transform the planning, design, layout and
execution processes in your manufacturing cycle.
Increasing productivity
Teamcenter provides a wide range of capabilities for improving
personal and team-based productivity. Teamcenter reduces the impact
of information overload by enabling users to quickly and seamlessly
access widely divergent types of product, process, manufacturing and
service knowledge generated by otherwise incompatible applications
and authoring systems.
Individual users can leverage personal viewing portals that deliver
product knowledge in formats – and with levels of detail – that
are attuned to the users’ everyday role, experience and comfort
level. Users locate this
information using web
browsers while employing
desktop systems, mobile
laptops, personal data
> Web market test
2 times introduction
price point
assistants and wireless phones. At the group level, Teamcenter enables
product teams and their suppliers to collaborate in real time, where
team members access and interact with detailed product knowledge
(such as 3D models, drawings and documents) while conducting
virtual conferences, concept studies, program reviews, design
reviews and change reviews.
Maximizing information re-use
Teamcenter enables you to capture information generated by diverse
applications and authoring systems dispersed across your entire
enterprise. Once this information is managed by Teamcenter, product
teams and individual users from multiple disciplines can re-use this
knowledge in multiple forms time and time again. Product teams can
integrate this information into visual
product models that users can access,
interrogate and interactively validate.
Equally important, you can use
Teamcenter to re-use design elements
in product derivatives that can be rapidly
and inexpensively developed. Similarly, by using Teamcenter to
> Document
handling
80 percent
cost reduction
facilitate systems engineering, you can define plans, processes and
product definitions for an entire product platform and re-use these
assets across multiple take-to-market programs.
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The Teamcenter advantage
Teamcenter advantage
De facto standard
for PLM deployments
Comprehensive portfolio
of lifecycle solutions
Leadership in delivery
Open PLM foundation
Why it matters
Teamcenter is the world’s market-leading platform for delivering PLM. Its marketplace success ensures your
company that the promise of PLM and the ability to deliver proven results has been validated in real-world,
full-production solutions. The most successful companies in the world have chosen – and deployed –
Teamcenter as a mission-critical system because:
• Teamcenter delivers unsurpassed PLM technology
• Companies that adopt Teamcenter are already experiencing substantial top-line and bottom-line business results
• Teamcenter’s scalable architecture enables companies to adopt PLM at their own company-specific pace
• Teamcenter’s comprehensive functional capabilities are augmented by a full line of services and ancillary products
Teamcenter delivers a portfolio of applications that – combined together – integrates your product lifecycle
phases, participants and product knowledge into a collaborative environment that you can leverage to solve
multiple business problems. Teamcenter solutions link users with secure, global access to product
knowledge, enabling process excellence throughout the lifecycle.
Teamcenter process-oriented solutions:
• Teamcenter for Engineering Process Management
• Teamcenter for Enterprise Knowledge Management
• Teamcenter for Lifecycle Visualization
• Teamcenter for Community Collaboration
• Teamcenter for Systems Engineering
• Teamcenter for Compliance Management
• Teamcenter for Program and Project Management
• Teamcenter for Strategic Sourcing
• Teamcenter for Digital Manufacturing
• Teamcenter for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO)
These solutions provide your PLM environment with:
• Visibility to product knowledge that is configured to individual lifecycle phases
• Process management capabilities that pertain to specific lifecycle phases
• Visualization and collaboration capabilities that enable lifecycle participants to seamlessly leverage design
content without having to understand or install an authoring application
Teamcenter is backed by UGS’ leadership in delivery. UGS has deployed Teamcenter solutions to more than
2 million users worldwide, the largest customer base for any PLM offering. UGS offers industry-specific
solutions and best practice templates that deliver a rapid return on your Teamcenter investment.
Teamcenter solutions are delivered on an open PLM foundation that future-proofs your company’s investment
and facilitates vendor independence. Teamcenter’s open foundation leverages widely accepted standards,
including Java 2 Enterprise Edition, Microsoft .NET Framework, UDDI, XML, SOAP, JSP technology and the
JT file format. Teamcenter’s service-oriented architecture is scalable to meet the needs of small to large
deployments. This open foundation allows Teamcenter to integrate your mission-critical ERP, CRM, and SCM
investments into your PLM environment, as well as rapidly accommodate new suppliers, partners, customers
and other lifecycle participants.
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Teamcenter for engineering process management
Teamcenter enables product teams to capture knowledge created from
multiple sources and integrate this information into product definitions
that you can leverage in automated release, design management,
engineering process management, digital validation, engineering change
and team collaboration processes.
Teamcenter lets your engineering teams capture works in progress
and release data authored under a variety of industry-leading CAD
systems – including NX , I-deas ® NX Series, Solid Edge ® , AutoCAD,
Catia V4 and V5, Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor –
and manage this information in a global environment that facilitates
multi-site product development. Teamcenter can integrate all of a
product’s parts into seamless product definitions that you can
track and assess as they evolve from one phase in your product
lifecycle to another.
To extend Teamcenter’s engineering process management capabilities
to non-CAD users, Teamcenter integrates visualization capabilities
that leverage CAD-neutral 3D visualization (JT file format). Extended
product teams can compare components and assemblies and identify
engineering changes authored under multiple CAD tools.
Teamcenter offers a scalable building block solution that ranges
from basic to comprehensive engineering process management.
The scalability of the Teamcenter solution enables customers to
implement the technology in phases.
Teamcenter Express is an easy-to-use, preconfigured and easy-todeploy
collaborative product development management (cPDM)
solution designed to meet the requirements of mid-sized manufacturing
companies. Teamcenter Express’ task and process management is an
entry point into the powerful Teamcenter portfolio.
Teamcenter Express provides the collaborative design management
functionality that your engineering teams need to manage design data
and communicate both internally and externally to your organization.
Teamcenter Express helps mid-sized manufacturing companies to
automate their business processes by applying preconfigured best
practices to everyday engineering tasks.
Teamcenter Engineering is a full engineering process management
solution for companies that want to implement comprehensive change
and validation management, enable requirements to be visible during
the design process, integrate supplier collaboration, integrate sourcing
into the design process, manage complexity and make manufacturing
decisions during the design cycle.
Teamcenter Engineering’s change and validation management
addresses one of the biggest challenges to increasing productivity
and eliminating errors and cost overruns – the efficiency of the change
process. Designers must be able to analyze changes quickly in the
context of other changes and assess the impact of the change on
the complete product.
Teamcenter Engineering’s change management capabilities allow a
company to manage product changes, synchronize those product
changes with bill of material changes, and communicate the result
across the entire extended enterprise. When components are replaced
in the product’s structure, Teamcenter Engineering provides a graphical,
interactive presentation of the replacement history.
To manage the complexity of their product offerings and facilitate
greater product variety, companies must organize their product
architecture into platforms and modules. Key in this approach is the
sharing of components, modules and other assets across product
families. Teamcenter Engineering’s powerful option and variant
management capabilities allow you to improve commonality by enabling
you to organize your product architecture into platforms and modules
Validation teams also can leverage Teamcenter Engineering’s “alwayson”
digital prototyping capabilities, called repeatable digital validation
(RDV), to allow engineers to evaluate their work against all other
changes and all configurations continuously. .
Teamcenter Engineering’s connectivity to requirements management
enables customers to continually validate their designs against product
specifications and compliance requirements. Teamcenter Engineering’s
connectivity to community collaboration extends product collaboration
to suppliers. Customers can easily drag and drop product information,
design specifications, manufacturing information and other related
documents from their managed environment into project collaboration
folders for suppliers to access, review and conduct synchronous
collaboration. The marked-up documents can be saved in the managed
environment for warranty issues, reporting change history and
lessons learned.
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Teamcenter for enterprise knowledge management
Teamcenter Enterprise enables companies to extend their
knowledge management and process automation capabilities on an
enterprise basis. Using Teamcenter, companies assemble an array
of knowledge that an entire enterprise can leverage to implement
its decision support and process automation initiatives.
By allowing you to capture, integrate, secure and control all of
your product, process, manufacturing and service knowledge in
a single PLM environment, Teamcenter Enterprise provides a body
of information that lifecycle participants can subsequently use
to synchronize their product assumptions, collaborate with each
other, make on-the-mark business decisions and incorporate
aligned information into lifecycle processes that apply to every
phase in your product lifecycle. For example:
• Teamcenter Enterprise’s application-specific integrations enable
information authors to leverage their authoring system of choice
(e.g., MCAD, ECAD, CAE, CAM, CASE, word processing and
document management systems) to create product-related works
in progress. Once this information is ready to be
shared/exchanged on an enterprise basis, authors can use these
integrations to capture this knowledge in Teamcenter Enterprise.
• Teamcenter Enterprise’s vaulting, versioning control, checkin/check-out
and security protection capabilities enable your
enterprise to manage and control this aggregate knowledge in
Teamcenter’s global repository.
• Teamcenter Enterprise’s product structure, configuration
management and visualization capabilities enable you to integrate
information generated by multiple applications and create higherlevel
product representations (such as product models, product
definitions, product configurations and virtual prototypes).
• Teamcenter Enterprise’s integrated visualization and collaboration
capabilities enable widely dispersed product team members to
view, mark up and exchange these higher-level product
representations.
• Teamcenter’s process management capabilities enable product
teams to define automated processes with repeatable rules, user
roles and workflow definitions that your enterprise can re-use
and execute across multiple take-to-market programs.
Teamcenter Enterprise also supports your PLM initiatives by
facilitating change management, parts classification, release
management, option and variant management, event notification,
relationship management and process innovations.
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Teamcenter for compliance management
Teamcenter’s enterprise knowledge and process management
empowers employees to support compliance in their daily tasks.
Teamcenter supports compliance management in a general sense by:
1) capturing regulatory requirements early in the product lifecycle and
integrating those requirements into the product definition as it evolves;
2) providing the process visibility and integrity to empower employees
to respond to regulatory issues; and 3) providing access to the right
product information at the right time.
Teamcenter for Compliance Management solutions offer the
following benefits:
• Facilitate design-for-compliance initiatives
• Provide product developers with rapid visibility to all compliant
and noncompliant components
• Integrate compliance management capabilities into current
business processes
• Minimize risk of noncompliance
• Reduce total cost of ownership
• Minimize cost associated with excess and obsolete inventory
otherwise caused by the use of noncompliant parts
With its robust knowledge management framework for configuration
management, record keeping and audit tracking, Teamcenter supports
compliance mandates in a general sense, and also offers specific
solutions for compliance:
Environmental compliance
To address overall compliance objectives while enabling product makers
to specifically comply with the End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV), Restriction on
the Use of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) and Waste from Electrical and
Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directives, UGS offers Teamcenter’s
Environmental Compliance solution for the end-to-end collection,
management and reporting of environmental compliance and material
content information.
Medical compliance
To specifically comply with requirements for the medical devices
industry, UGS offers Teamcenter’s Medical Compliance solution.
The Teamcenter solution allows customers to manage digital product
information across the lifecycle in accordance with regulatory
requirements such as those established by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). Teamcenter provides improved reliability and
enhanced product quality at reduced costs, while at the same time
fulfilling FDA requirements for new product introduction.
Export control
In this digital age, governments around the world are concerned
about controlling the export of information. For example, the U.S.
International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) governs the sharing of
technical information between U.S. companies and foreign nationals,
regardless of where that access occurs (whether in the U.S. or abroad).
These regulations hold companies accountable for the acts of anyone
in their employ who shares technical data. Penalties for export
violations can be severe – $1M and 10 years in prison per violation,
prohibitions against future exports by the company and the loss
of government contracts.Teamcenter’s Authorized Data Access
solution integrates export control-specific security measures at the
program level within Teamcenter’s knowledge management and
collaboration environment.
Document and records management
The standardization of document and records management policies
and procedures ensures that appropriate protection is given to all
records and that the evidence and information they contain can
be retrieved more efficiently and effectively, using standards and
procedures. Document and records management is a challenge for
both commercial and government sectors worldwide.
Within the U.S., there are specific standards that have been established
for document and records management. For example, the U.S.
Department of Defense’s 5015.2 standard provides implementing and
procedural guidance for the management of records in the DoD. The
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 provides a second example with the most
significant act of the U.S. Congress to bring changes to corporate
governance, putting compliance issues at the forefront for U.S. public
companies. Similar legislation is being enacted by other governments
around the world.
Teamcenter’s document and records management capabilities help meet
the DoD 5015.2 and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements, along with
other mandates, with document management and workflow capabilities
that enable compliance.
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Teamcenter for lifecycle visualization
Teamcenter Visualization provides the Teamcenter environment
with a family of visualization solutions that product teams can use
to visualize a whole product and enable all of the participants in
the product lifecycle to interact directly with its design data.
By enabling lifecycle participants to visualize and leverage product
data in 2D and 3D formats even when this data is created using
different authoring software, Teamcenter Visualization:
• Allows extended lifecycle participants (such as sales and marketing
organizations, allied partners, suppliers and trusted customers)
to take part in the concept design process early and often
without incurring the cost, complexity or training associated
with CAD systems
• Facilitates more fully informed lifecycle decisions by allowing
product teams to exchange, share and mark up universally
accessible visualizations that represent the product in its entirety
• Streamlines innovation by enabling product teams to visualize
new product ideas, test their validity and evaluate alternative
design concepts collaboratively by utilizing virtual prototypes
Teamcenter Visualization enables your enterprise to match its
company-specific needs with the following scalable service levels:
Teamcenter Visualization Base delivers full-function 2D capabilities,
including extensive 2D markup and investigation tools, as well
as measurement and comparison capabilities and basic 3D
visualization functionality.
Teamcenter Visualization Standard provides enterprise 2D/3D review
and markup capabilities for advanced 3D visualization,
powerful 3D markup and access to advanced
product data, including product structure and
product and manufacturing information (PMI).
Teamcenter Visualization Professional delivers full-function
collaborative design review tools, such as 2D/3D analysis
capabilities for 3D investigation, including measurement, dynamic
cross sectioning, comparison and user-defined coordinate system
capabilities for analyzing multi-CAD assemblies.
Teamcenter Visualization Mockup provides sophisticated digital
mockup capabilities that design teams can use to assemble a
complete digital prototype, perform advanced analysis – including
static and dynamic clearance analysis on the whole product – and
detect issues early in the product lifecycle.
iSeries delivers an easy to deploy and maintain web browser-based
implementation of the Teamcenter Visualization Base, Standard and
Professional service levels.
Teamcenter Visualization offers a host of advanced, process-oriented
add-ons, such as Concept for immersive digital mockup, Publishing for
technical publishing, Jack for ergonomic validation, VSA for tolerance
simulation, Quality for production quality validation, ClearanceDB for
automatic clearance/interference management and Path Planning for
assembly validation.
Teamcenter Visualization has proven its credentials as the world’s
leading visualization standard for more than a decade by delivering
unmatched performance and a solution portfolio of unsurpassed
breadth. Teamcenter Visualization has generated substantial returns
on investment for more than 600,000 users in more than 35,000
sites across 43 countries.
Teamcenter Visualization is powered by JT technology – a highly
flexible CAD-neutral format that can be created from all major
CAD applications, allowing full representation of relevant model
information. Because Teamcenter Visualization solutions utilize the
JT file format, product teams are able to
visualize extremely large assemblies and
validate design details in the context of a
complete assembly. CAD users often employ
Teamcenter Visualization for large assembly
viewing because their native CAD system
cannot handle this amount of data.
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Teamcenter for community collaboration
Teamcenter Community provides enterprises with a secure,
adaptive and IT friendly Microsoft-based environment that product
teams can use to visually collaborate across every phase in the
product lifecycle – without having to incur any special training or
learn how to use a PLM or CAD system.
Teamcenter Community enables product teams to work with their
suppliers, allied partners and trusted customers in a real-time
environment that facilitates the rapid formation of sourcing teams,
concept studies, program reviews, design reviews and engineering
change processes. To support these initiatives, Teamcenter
Community enables product teams to:
• Quickly invite individual team members to join a virtual team
• Establish virtual conference rooms where team members can
engage in managed collaborative processes
• Easily capture ad hoc product knowledge that is generated
informally (i.e., unstructured information that resides in emails,
individual desktops and team members’ minds)
• Integrate this unstructured knowledge with the structured knowledge
already managed by Teamcenter
• Share/exchange both structured and unstructured knowledge in
a single environment that facilitates visual product collaboration
while eliminating the time-consuming tasks normally involved
when working with multi-CAD projects
• Provide individual team members with personal portal views
that match their user roles, workflow responsibilities and
security entitlements
• Enable team members to leverage a wide range of visual
collaboration tools, including 3D product visualizations, instant
messaging, digital calendars and digital schedules
In essence, Teamcenter Community enables team members to
integrate their existing desktops into a collaborative environment
that combines the robust advantages of PLM with the familiarity
and ease-of-use associated with Microsoft’s desktop environment.
Because Teamcenter Community is based on Microsoft Office
and is designed to plug into your web-based business environment,
you can leverage the knowledge retained in your legacy ERP,
SCM and CRM systems alongside the product knowledge
managed by Teamcenter.
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Teamcenter for Systems Engineering
Teamcenter for Systems Engineering provides solutions that enterprises
can use to improve the product development cycle in its entirety. By
allowing your enterprise to understand its products from a holistic
perspective, Teamcenter for Systems Engineering enables product teams
to optimize the tradeoffs made at multiple stages in a decision-intensive
product lifecycle.
By leveraging Teamcenter for Systems Engineering, your enterprise can:
• Maximize the revenue generating potential of your products by
ensuring that you deliver the right product content at the right time
to the right target market
• Understand the customer requirements, program constraints and
design elements that pertain to your whole product offering – and
thereby mitigate the risk and minimize the cost associated with
product development
• Effectively assess the cost and scheduling impacts associated with
proposed design/requirement changes
• Optimize your products on an interdisciplinary basis by simultaneously
improving multiple product attributes, including performance, cost
effectiveness, quality and reliability
Teamcenter for System Engineering’s web-based requirements
management, group collaboration and information-linking capabilities
facilitate a team-based approach to product development that
enables team members to communicate within the context of the
whole product.
Teamcenter’s requirements management capabilities allow your
enterprise to define, capture, engineer, manage and leverage product
requirements and compliance regulations on a repeatable and rigorous
basis. You can incorporate these requirements directly into your
Teamcenter-driven validation processes, thereby ensuring that your
product offerings will meet the customer expectations, quality goals
and government standards defined by their specific market space.
• Teamcenter enables you to understand what your target markets
and customer base want in terms of documented expectations,
preferences, standards and regulations that you capture from
diverse sources as product requirements.
• Teamcenter lets you supplement these requirements with quantifiable
constraints that determine the success of your product programs in
terms of their cost and delivery schedules, as well as their ability to
satisfy established performance, ergonomic, safety, usability, reliability,
maintainability, recycling/disposal and other compliance-related metrics.
• Teamcenter enables you to connect these requirements and constraints
into fine-grain design elements that you can trace across the configurations
and product definitions that describe a product’s various lifecycle states.
• Teamcenter facilitates cross-discipline closed-loop feedback by recognizing
when your program constraints are in danger of being violated, when
changes to your product requirements and design elements occur and
when review teams need to understand the requirements-related
impact of proposed design changes.
Teamcenter’s patented connected requirements capabilities let you link
regulations (such as the Congressional Battery Act and EEU Directives)
into your product design process – thereby enabling you to “build in”
regulatory compliance across your entire product lifecycle. Similarly,
Teamcenter enables you to connect Six Sigma goals into your upstream
processes in your product lifecycle and facilitate Design for Six Sigma.
Teamcenter for Systems Engineering enables product teams
to create a wide variety of high-level system views called
hierarchies. Users establish hierarchies to represent multiple
product views, including product structures, organizational
assignments, manufacturing views, project management
perspectives, cost analyses, and documentation views.
Once these views are captured, they can be interrelated
to provide your enterprise with total visibility to a whole
product, as well as to optimize the product’s interdependent
program constraints by subjecting them to tradeoff analyses
before detailed design begins.
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Teamcenter for program and project management
Teamcenter Project provides a web-native e-business application
that product teams can leverage to plan and manage lifecycle
projects on a real-time basis. Teamcenter Project is distinguished
by its ability to allow cross-discipline teams to create and share
project information in a real-time environment that facilitates
simultaneous project viewing and instantaneous updating.
Teamcenter Project enables teams to create, maintain and monitor
project schedules that reflect fine-grain work tasks, dependencies,
milestones and start/finish dates. Team members can monitor
these schedules in real time by interactively accessing Gantt charts
that can be edited on a collaborative basis. Teamcenter Project
supports a variety of powerful scheduling features including the
ability to define an unlimited number of task hierarchies, establish
project baselines, manage effort-driven schedules and identify
task constraints.
Teams can leverage Teamcenter Project’s resource management
and organizational breakdown capabilities. Teams can define each
project in terms of its work tasks, related costs, the resources
required to execute each task and the skill sets needed by the
resource in question. Teams can assign tasks to specific individuals
on a multi-project basis. They also can monitor project status in real
time (e.g., by generating interactive histograms that highlight overutilized
and under-utilized resources). In addition, team members
can receive assignments and update their progress on specific tasks
across multiple schedules – at anytime from anywhere.
Teamcenter Project’s collaborative cost management capabilities
enable teams to associate bill rates with resources or skill sets and
provide managers with both detailed and summary project costs –
including estimated and accrued costs. Teamcenter Project can
reflect both variable labor and fixed costs, as well as leverage its
timecard reporting capabilities to allow team members to submit
project-based timecards for online management approval.
Teamcenter Project’s extensive tracking and reporting capabilities
provide executives with summary updates that highlight the status
of all teams and projects. It also provides event-based notices to
warn executives about emerging trouble spots. Email and pop-up
notifications can be generated to describe events that influence
schedules, costs, documents and ongoing team discussions.
In addition, Teamcenter Project produces “big picture” views
that cross multiple schedules and allow managers to view this
information in easy-to-read Gantt format.
Because Teamcenter Project is integrated with Teamcenter’s
knowledge management and collaboration capabilities, your
enterprise can create, capture, manage and leverage its project
knowledge in the same PLM environment you use to manage
the rest of your product, process, manufacturing and service
knowledge. As a result, your project knowledge is able to
directly contribute to all of the business initiatives you adopt
to digitally transform your product lifecycle.
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Teamcenter for strategic sourcing
Teamcenter Sourcing provides a new approach to strategic sourcing that
ties e-sourcing, knowledge management and collaboration capabilities
together to provide all of the stakeholders in your supply chain with a
single point of access to your sourcing and product data. Once these
process improvements are in place, you can turn your supply chain into
a fully functioning innovation chain that:
• Increases sourcing productivity by reducing the time your
enterprise spends on tactical sourcing and increasing the time
available for performing strategic sourcing analysis
• Improves RFP, RFI and RFQ response times by integrating your
product BOM and sourcing data into a single window that
facilitates automatic bid package preparation while allowing your
procurement teams to more rapidly evaluate supplier bids
• Facilitates real time collaboration by enabling suppliers to
participate in your design and change processes sooner and
contribute more effectively to your cost reduction and
innovation initiatives
Teamcenter Sourcing delivers online sourcing solutions for:
• RFPs and sourcing surveys. Teamcenter Sourcing supports automatic
distribution of an RFP or survey, easy online questionnaire
completion, automated supplier communications and improved
response analysis.
• Spend management. Teamcenter Sourcing tracks spending and
compliance across your enterprise by business unit, supplier,
commodity and diversity supplier classification – enabling you to
leverage purchasing power and allow procurement professionals
to quickly target sourcing opportunities.
• Auctions. Teamcenter Sourcing enables procurement teams to
bring the negotiation process online with total cost functionality
that allows bidding on price and non-price components, resulting
in reduced sourcing cycle times, true price transparency and
tremendous cost savings.
• Sourcing Community template (built with Teamcenter Community
and sourcing best practices from A.T. Kearney, a UGS strategic
partner). Teamcenter Sourcing provides sourcing teams with a
collaborative workbench to capture all of the knowledge and
information gained during a sourcing effort. The sourcing community
delivers enterprise collaboration tools that enable you to “market”
your deals and educate your employees on new agreements
in a consistent manner particularly appropriate for large and
decentralized organizations. Your sourcing community functions
in a collaboration environment that is based on the Microsoft
platform. This environment extends the reach of your user
desktops through a common Windows- and Office-based
foundation and Microsoft SharePoint Services.
By extending these sourcing applications with Teamcenter’s
enterprise knowledge management and collaboration capabilities,
you can closely align your procurement process with your
engineering processes so that:
• Suppliers can fully understand your product requirements, supply
chain needs and product definitions.
• Development teams can assess each prospective supplier in terms
of its design content, cost efficiencies and product quality, as well
as the supplier’s capabilities and overall quality.
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Teamcenter for digital manufacturing
To support your company’s transition from the physical factory
to the digital factory, Teamcenter Manufacturing delivers a digital
manufacturing backbone that establishes the relationships and
associations among your product, process, plant and resource
knowledge – enabling you to leverage this combined knowledge
to create, manage and maintain a comprehensive plan for producing
your products.
Teamcenter Manufacturing bridges the gap between product
development and the factory floor by managing the product,
process, plant and resource knowledge that your manufacturing
engineers can use to perform:
• Part manufacturing planning
• Assembly process planning
• Resource management
• Plan design and optimization
• Ergonomics and human performance
• Product quality planning
• Production execution
In essence, Teamcenter Manufacturing allows you to leverage
upstream product lifecycle information (such as the product
definitions that evolve from your CAD/CAM/CAE systems)
and feed them into your downstream manufacturing planning
and execution systems (e.g., your ERP/MES solutions).
Teamcenter’s ability to integrate and leverage these otherwise
dissimilar information silos enables your enterprise to quickly
assess how individual lifecycle decisions will impact specific
product, process, plant and resource plans.
By some industry estimates, manufacturing engineers spend nearly
half their time searching for information they need to perform their
jobs. Teamcenter Manufacturing enables you to deliver critical
manufacturing planning information to all of your enterprise’s
entitled lifecycle participants on demand. As a result, your product
and manufacturing teams can rapidly assess the impact of specific
lifecycle decisions. For example, if a design team proposes a
product revision or if a manufacturing team proposes a change to
a factory layout, Teamcenter Manufacturing can instantly determine
and deliver the corresponding impacts on your product, process,
plant and resource plans.
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Teamcenter for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO)
Teamcenter for MRO provides a suite of solutions that enable
enterprises to digitally transform the processes associated with
maintaining, repairing and overhauling their complex operational
assets. By using a configuration-driven approach to managing
operational product knowledge, the Teamcenter for MRO solution
suite addresses the business needs of OEMs/prime contractors,
owners/operators and third-party service providers who require:
• Configuration management – to capture, link and manage
full configurations of operational assets in their as-designed
(as-engineered), as-built and as-maintained (as-serviced)
lifecycle states. Teamcenter for MRO manages all related
operational knowledge within the context of an appropriate
configuration phase, including tech orders and service
manuals, service bulletins, inspection reports, deviations
and waivers, 2D drawings, 3D illustrations and animations
of procedures and valid configurations with alternates
and substitutes.
• Maintenance planning – to establish requirements, define
service resources, optimize service visits, roll up maintenance
requirements across an asset base, forecast MRO requirements,
account for unscheduled maintenance and analyze individual
assets in terms of their operational life-limits and utilization.
• Maintenance execution – to assign and distribute work orders by
zone, process and skill set and to support audit and compliance
verification. Teamcenter for MRO is particularly adept at capturing
work execution and metrics for the life limited parts, deviations,
discrepancies and deferred defects.
• Material management – to capture and manage parts, tools and
equipment inventory and track their related life-limits, shelf life,
part status, dispositions, usage rates and history. Teamcenter for
MRO also tracks outsourced work and facilitates inventory
distribution, vendor management, warranty management and
compliance record management.
Teamcenter for MRO allows enterprises to plan and deliver
MRO services more effectively, maximize the operational availability
of managed capital assets and ensure compliance with servicerelated
metrics. By facilitating total asset visibility across the full
and useful life of an operational asset, Teamcenter for MRO enables
enterprises to increase asset readiness and reliability, reduce
turnaround time, improve product performance and reliability
and optimize service financial models.
By providing accurate and up-to-date product and process
knowledge at the service team’s point of need, Teamcenter for
MRO allows service organizations to maximize their response times
and significantly improve “wrench time” productivity. Teamcenter
for MRO delivers a true configuration of a product before and
during service depot events – thereby facilitating maintenance
planning, improved service quality and faster, more cost effective
event resolution.
Teamcenter for MRO enables you to capture the service experience
for feedback so that you can drive ongoing engineering and service
improvement programs. Since Teamcenter for MRO works within
an overall PLM solution, enterprises benefit from integrated change
management, configuration management and other improvement
processes over the asset’s entire lifecycle.
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PLM checklist
PLM functionality
Application integration
Teamcenter capability
Teamcenter enables authors to rapidly capture information from their application system of
choice in several ways.
Teamcenter’s full range of out-of-the-box application integrations automatically register data files in
Teamcenter when application authors create this data. Teamcenter retains highly accurate database paths
that note the physical residence of the application data – ensuring that Teamcenter is directly updated
whenever a data change is made. Teamcenter also retains metadata (e.g., attributes of the data files being
registered) to facilitate subsequent information search and retrieval.
Teamcenter enables application authors to establish standards-based enterprise application integrations
that interrogate the PLM environment and its connected ERP, SCM and CRM systems, draw unified
information from these systems and either present this information to requesting users or exchange
information between the connected applications in response to product-related changes/events.
Teamcenter’s open foundation leverages widely accepted standards, including Java 2 Enterprise Edition,
Microsoft .NET Framework, UDDI, XML SOAP, JSP technology and the JT file format.
Information access/retrieval
Information security
Product definition
Teamcenter supports universal search by enabling knowledge users to employ conventional web browsers
to query the PLM environment for information created under multiple authoring systems. Users can
conduct their searches by specifying attributes (metadata), as well as performing full text searches. Users
can employ graphical product structures to quickly navigate through the parts/components that comprise
a product configuration.
Teamcenter’s universal viewing capabilities allow users to view all of the PLM environment’s content using any
web browser at any time from anywhere. Teamcenter enables users to view this content in its native format
or in standard distribution/viewing formats (such as JT files or pdfs).
Teamcenter retains the paths and metadata that pertain to the PLM environment’s managed information
in a database repository that can be controlled, accessed, audited and shared on an enterprise basis. The
repository enables the enterprise to share its product knowledge in a distributed or federated multi-site
environment. A variety of Teamcenter capabilities control and protect this product knowledge, including:
Check-in/check-out – protects the integrity of your product knowledge by locking out works-in-progress.
Revisioning/versioning – manages information changes by enabling you to track and audit revisions and
intermediate versions.
System and data security – protect the PLM environment’s underlying systems and databases from unauthorized
access/use, as well as defining how individual pieces of product information (objects) can be used. Teamcenter
supports the standard HTTPS protocol to protect the delivery of web-based information across firewall
boundaries. Teamcenter controls user access on the basis of security clearances and entitlements that pertain
to individual users, user roles, teams, groups and projects.
Teamcenter enables lifecycle participants to work in a product-centric framework that aligns the enterprise’s
users, information and processes around a series of interrelated product, process, manufacturing and service
definitions. To support this framework, Teamcenter provides:
Product structure management – enables product developers to establish/leverage a hierarchical tree
structure that represents the entire product in terms of its parts, subassemblies and assemblies and the
information objects that define them.
Configuration management – enables lifecycle participants to identify, control, assess and audit the
configurations that evolve across the entire product lifecycle (i.e., the product’s as-required, as-designed,
as-planned, as-built and as-maintained lifecycle states).
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Option/variant management – enables developers to create a generic product structure for an overarching
product platform (i.e., that supports the development of multiple product programs, including the
development of entire product families, derivatives, variants, options, add-ons and niche offerings).
Parts classification – enables product developers to organize and classify all of the parts that comprise the
product definition so that they can be easily accessed and re-used for multiple development programs.
Process management
Document management
Product change management
Multi-CAD product
development
Teamcenter provides a robust set of workflow capabilities that an enterprise can use to automate its
lifecycle processes, including:
Rule definitions – defines the company-specific business rules that determine how and under what conditions
information is to be made available to the enterprise and its user communities
User roles – determines who is entitled to receive specific kinds of information on the basis of their
lifecycle responsibility
Notification services – automatically notifies entitled users when changes are made to specific information objects
Teamcenter enables enterprises to identify, manage, access and re-use all of the documents that pertain to the
product lifecycle by supporting a complete set of authoring, knowledge user and workflow capabilities, including:
Online enterprise publishing. Enterprises can “publish” documents (created across their PLM environment)
in Teamcenter and tie these documents to a product’s related parts and components – as well as to various
product configurations and their related BOMs. Universally accessible documents (such as pdfs) can be
rapidly spun off, viewed and printed from Teamcenter’s single source of product knowledge.
Authoring tool interface. Document authors can work with Teamcenter through seamless application interfaces
to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
On-demand viewing. Knowledge users can employ web browsers to find documents managed by Teamcenter.
Users query Teamcenter by conducting full text searches, as well as specifying document-related attributes.
Automated review/approval. Teams that participate in automated approval processes can employ web browsers
to route documents for review, inspect their own in-boxes, provide annotated review comments and approve
or reject a document.
Teamcenter enables enterprises to plan, manage, execute and track product changes through two powerful
change management implementations:
A single-stage change process that uses a simple, less formal change management methodology based on
CMII fast-track conventions.
A full change process that leverages multiple change documents and extensive implementation planning to
manage product change in accordance with the industry standard CMII closed-loop model.
Both change solutions enable enterprises to evaluate the ongoing impact of individual product changes,
leverage streamlined work breakdown structures, automate and audit the execution of assigned work tasks,
notify product developers when change tasks need to be expedited, maintain a complete change history and
verify conformance to documented requirements.
Teamcenter’s multi-CAD capabilities enable engineering teams to create and modify component designs
created on any major CAD system and assemble these design elements into a multi-CAD product design.
Teamcenter synchronizes the data changes that take place under the authoring system and under Teamcenter
to ensure that every team is working with the latest design changes – as well as to make certain that both
the native CAD files and Teamcenter’s CAD-neutral JT files are instantly aligned.
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Engineering process
management
Repeatable digital validation
Multi-site collaboration
Teamcenter engineering process management capabilities surpass traditional CAD file management by enabling
Teamcenter to capture all relevant product and process innovation and relate this information to a common
product structure that represents the as-designed lifecycle state.
Teamcenter enables enterprises to manage design specifications, documents, requirements and other types of
product information – in addition to CAD, CAM and CAE data. Teamcenter’s process management capabilities
let enterprises define engineering workflows – allowing engineering teams to manage change, enforce
company-specific business rules and rapidly execute automated engineering processes.
Teamcenter facilitates repeatable digital validation (RDV) by enabling product developers to evaluate product
changes and alternative design concepts in real time. By providing developers with access to an “always on”
digital model of the complete product and all of its variations, engineering teams can study alternative design
concepts in a controlled environment that allows them to validate the impact of new ideas on the product’s
overall design and performance.
Teamcenter’s RDV capabilities allow developers to suggest design changes, validate these changes against the
complete product for packaging, CAE, process simulation, manufacturability, test, serviceability, cost and
function – and compare the validation result against other alternative designs.
RDV leverages Teamcenter’s product knowledge management and information search/retrieval capabilities and
tightly couples them with high-speed lightweight visualization and high-end CAD validation/modeling.
Teamcenter continuously builds all of the necessary indexing and caching when data is released –
enabling developers to perform searches whenever they want. Teamcenter Visualization and CAD systems
can be launched directly with the results of a user search – eliminating the need to export data into special
environments or perform any special translations. Teamcenter leverages aggregated results from multiple
validation processes and presents them to users in an intuitive web portal.
Teamcenter facilitates multi-site collaboration by enabling engineering teams to share product information
and seamlessly collaborate with each other in a globally dispersed environment. Multi-site collaboration is
especially valuable to geographically dispersed teams that need to work with synchronized product
information retained in two or more databases.
By leveraging Teamcenter’s robust federated services, your PLM solution can address three key needs:
Federated networking – where multiple sites in the same enterprise maintain different business rules,
user/group controls or workflow processes and need to exchange product definitions while retaining their
local autonomy.
Network performance issues – where enterprises distribute a large Teamcenter database into smaller,
closer geographic or discipline-specific databases.
Outside data exchange – where enterprises exchange data with suppliers who want to maintain their
own independent Teamcenter database.
Teamcenter leverages two technologies to facilitate multi-site collaboration:
Central database publishing – which enables sites to publish metadata about the information they want to share
in a central database.
Multi-site data replication – where replicated information is pushed/pulled to multiple sites when specific events occur.
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About UGS
UGS is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services
with nearly 4 million licensed seats and 46,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in
Plano, Texas, UGS’ vision is to enable a world where organizations and their partners collaborate
through global innovation networks to deliver world-class products and services while leveraging
UGS’ open enterprise solutions, fulfilling the mission of enabling them to transform their process
of innovation. For more information on UGS products and services, visit www.ugs.com.
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