Teamcenter 8 includes multiple enhancements for the Aerospace and Defense industry, further extending Teamcenter’s productivity advantage. Teamcenter 8 allows companies to connect their strategic program plan and deliverables with suppliers executing in a single environment. Teamcenter 8 establishes program control over the entire product lifecycle.

Global Engineering and Manufacturing & Service Lifecycle Management

• Manages program events and milestone values throughout the entire lifecycle, integrating requirements management to manage program tasks, schedules and changes.
• Configuration Management and Change Management are used to provide program-unique revisions and numbering schemes, along with effectivity propagation for formal class changes, deviation, and waivers acting as single source for product management.
• Document Management capabilities now include S1000D compliance in support of contractual document management (i.e. specifications and technical manuals).
• The industry product-centric (part/doc) parts list helps manage standard and preferred parts, along with standard and custom notes.
• User Groups support program-specific Integrated Product Teams (IPT) that include suppliers and other sub-groups to manage the supplier relationship. Features include:
  • Vendor Management Data Model
  • Initial HTE Solution
  • Vendor Locations and Contracts
  • Vendor parts in PSE
  • Excel BOM Import
  • PDX Export
  • Lightweight Supplier Integration
  • SRM Integration
  • BidPackage and Quote Support for RFx
  • Data Model Alignment
• Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) capabilities provide the complete As-Built that can generate physical structures that are top-down and bottom-up. Includes the generation of alternates and substitutes, and creates the physical and neutral BOM compares, allowing you to identify missing parts and the need for deviations and waivers. It also includes module and VI support, and visualization of the physical structure.