Driving Application Productivity with End-to-End PLM

Teamcenter 8 brings together the entire PLM portfolio on a single, unified architecture, so you can choose the right application mix for your company. Brand-new solutions for Teamcenter 8 include content and document management, and formula package and brand management.

Build on the Foundation for PLM

• Breadth of applications and knowledge from ideation through to product retirement, with the most comprehensive coverage of product lifecycle processes and data management
• Maintains the balance of security and collaboration by providing government and commercial security standard support, such as ITAR (Export Control, contract based security)
• Enables re-use through rapid access to product knowledge with advanced search (full text, metadata, complex) and navigation
• Ensures accuracy and usage context with product structure (BOMs) as well as definition data linked within a single source of product and process knowledge
• Provides flexible, scalable service-oriented architecture (SOA), extensible up to four-tier deployment

Take Charge of Processes and Change with PLM

• Provides workflow and orchestration to ensure processes and changes are consistently managed through flexible best-practice processes
• Ensures efficient visibility, control and execution by defining, managing and standardizing workflow-driven processes
• Supports industry-standard change and revision management (Institute of Configuration Management standards (CMII), stage gate, etc.)

Speed PLM Time to Value

• Reduces total cost of ownership with tailored solutions that permit rapid, lower risk implementation
• Extends functionality and knowledge with optional domain solutions such as Content and Document Management, Compliance Management, BOM Management, Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul, etc.
• Delivers industry solutions for enterprise process management with key terminology, information, behavior, and processes tailored for a specific industry
  • Aerospace and Defense: Change management, program context, data management, Contractor Data Requirement List (CDRL)/Subcontractor Data Requirement List (SDRL), systems engineering
  • Formula, Package, and Brand Management: Formulation/Recipe, Branding, Packaging
  • High Tech and Electronics: Part/vendor management, BOM grading
  • Medical Devices – U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) submission data management

What’s New in Teamcenter 8

Take a look at the new features across the Teamcenter 8 portfolio to drive your company’s application productivity:

Bill of Materials (BOM) Management

• Engineering BOM (EBOM) and Manufacturing BOM (MBOM) enablement with controlled acceptance of product data updates to improve visibility, validation and accountability across functional domains
• Reference designator pack and unpack for EBOM enables continuous values to be packed in a range with optional validations for “do not pack” blank designators and “never pack” for no-load electrical comps
• As-built BOM management of test, prototype and built structures, with their results, to document and verify physical builds of product for warranty/compliance management

Community Collaboration

• Issues management integrated with workflow so you can manage community collaboration issues with Teamcenter’s change management workflows
• Work list inbox lets you review and sign-off on your Teamcenter tasks from your MS Outlook inbox
• Reverse proxy support for proxy servers improves the security of community collaboration installed outside your company’s firewall
• License management makes it easier to set and control community collaboration licensing

Compliance Management

• User access controlled by ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) licenses so you can set and trace user access to make it easier to set access to ITAR-controlled items
• Audit management to trace, track and log access of ITAR-controlled items to improve traceability and accountability
• Support for EU REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) regulation to grade BOMs against REACH regulation and prove compliance
• Risk management module to capture and manage risks throughout the medical device project lifecycle, so you can map clinical requirements to FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) statements and reduce risk

Content and Document Management

• Enhanced document management support for templates, embedded PLM menus and auto-rendering to standardize document processes, improve user productivity and reduce training costs.
• Structured authoring and publishing with SGML/XML and S1000D support to synchronize documentation and development enables re-use, re-purposing and translation with multi-version publishing
• Advanced Microsoft Office 2007 integration provides an intuitive user interface for MS Office users to access Teamcenter

Engineering Process Management

• Digital validation with cacheless search capabilities allow users to aggregate design changes continuously and visually analyze and validate the changes
• Design management enhances “in CAD” experience by ensuring visual consistency between CAD and visualization views of product information
• Improved NX CAD integration offers more Teamcenter functionality, including classification, from NX, so designers can classify, search and re-use designs in NX to be more productive

Enterprise Knowledge Foundation

• Advanced workflow engine provides greater control of process flow, supporting real-world complex processes with the reduced effort of configurability versus customization
• Change management with specialized change objects and behavior to improve the overall speed, effectiveness and accuracy of the change process
• Program context with list of values, auto-numbering, auto-versioning and business rules by program to reduce implementation and support costs (e.g., configuration versus customization, data integrity and program security)
• Support for global deployment through global services, file management services (FMS) and internationalization provides the scalability and local language translation to drive user productivity

Formula, Package and Brand Management

• Brand knowledge management with a flexible brand hierarchy to manage brand assets and information eliminates inconsistent branding, improves brand communication and enables brand growth
• Formula management includes formula and recipe decomposition, as well as integration with formula authoring tools to consolidate information silos into a single source of information, eliminating the need to re-enter data and ensuring accuracy
• Packaging and artwork management at all levels – consumer, retail and shipper – provides traceability through requirements and visibility to all related information to reduce errors and recalls, as well as enable standardization and re-use
• Global specification management with flexible specification configuration and proven global scalability reduces inconsistency and re-work, enabling synchronized execution and visibility to the impact of change

Lifecycle Visualization

• Consistent visualization with CAD provides a viewing experience consistent with that of the CAD authoring system
• Integrated clearance management allows users to find clearance issues in large assemblies from an integrated environment
• Lightweight supplier collaboration creates packages with very small JT files (ultra lightweight precise, or ULP) that are easy to exchange by e-mail with suppliers
• Product manufacturing information (PMI) improvements support assembly-level PMI from NX and feature-based selection
• Service-oriented architecture (SOA) integration with Teamcenter allows users to visualize saved or latest structures with associated metadata

Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul

• As-built BOM management for test, experimental and build structures, including their results, provides for the documentation and verification of physical builds of products for warranty and compliance records
• Service data management provides as-maintained asset management and service lifecycle knowledge management, including asset service history
• Service event management captures service activities, results, discrepancies and part movement to maintain accurate service and asset history, empowering the global service value chain to improve product and service performance

Manufacturing Process Management

• Engineering BOM (EBOM) to Manufacturing BOM (MBOM) management improves accountability checking and data synchronization to automate and reconcile complexity.
• Time management capabilities to store, roll-up and manage time provide visibility to value-add versus non-value add work so users can optimize work time
• Cloning enhancements with configured templates for re-use allow users to propagate innovative solutions and more easily re-use best practices
• Proximity search on in-process assembly (IPA) allows users to gather only the information they need so there’s less manual work to sift through data and faster load time

Mechatronics Process Management

• Expanded ECAD tool integration provides a single source of data for multiple ECAD tool environments
• Electronic parts library management eliminates use of obsolete or unapproved parts
• ECAD cross-probe and assembly analysis enables collaboration to resolve design, fabrication and assembly issues
• Embedded software design data management supports component-based software development
• Wire harness option and variant management allows users to leverage harness designs across multiple product configurations

Platform Extensibility Services

• Program context business rules promote server consolidations and minimize data duplication
• Condition engine eliminates customizations that enable variable business rules
• Streamlined business object extension with operations reduces complexity and time required to configure Teamcenter
• Streamlined service-oriented architecture (SOA) services creation standardizes creation of custom applications to extend Teamcenter
• Business process execution language (BPEL) engine and mapping designer usability increase business analyst productivity

Portfolio, Program and Project Management

• Web UI client enables collaborative portfolio management
• New user interface makes portfolio management easier to speed learning and user adoption
• Master schedule linked to sub-schedule provides better program execution visibility from high-level plans to detailed projects
• Task linked to requirements enables compliance tracking and sign-off

Simulation Process Management

• External simulation process framework simplifies the configuration of external CAE tools and allows configurations to be saved and re-used
• Remote simulation process launch allows users to better utilize computing resources and monitor solution progress
• Simulation inspector enables easy comparison of product and simulation structures and simplifies the process for updating the simulation structure as the design changes
• NX CAE integration support facilitates bi-directional sharing of finite element assemblies between NX and Teamcenter

Supplier Relationship Management

• Standard Teamcenter user interface look and feel improves usability for Teamcenter customers
• Fully integrated supplier relationship management (SRM) within Teamcenter’s unified architecture means users can transfer data to any registered supplier without leaving Teamcenter’s user interface
• Large file handling using file management services (FMS) provides for the secure exchange of large files with suppliers in a format their applications can consume
• Enhanced supplier scorecard capability allows users to track supplier performance from multiple inputs
• Item-level spend analysis with item-level reporting allows users to analyze and compare the price paid across the enterprise

Systems Engineering and Requirements Management

• Fully integrated requirements management in common PLM database captures and communicates the voice of the customer throughout the lifecycle
• MS Office Live user interface allows users to author/edit requirements from MS Word or MS Excel with no learning curve or training; documents are up-to-date and credible
• Project accountability with requirements tied to project tasks provides visibility to resource/cost/schedule impacts and verify/document completion
• Engineering visibility with requirements tied to NX features provides the visibility for designers to respond to the voice of the customer and verify mechanics with requirements