Boosting Individual Productivity to Do More with Less

When you look at your desktop today, imagine Teamcenter embedded in whichever Microsoft Office application you use the most. Teamcenter 8 seamlessly immerses PLM capabilities into your daily actions and applications, putting a powerful new set of user interfaces at your fingertips.

MS Office 2007 as a Teamcenter 8 User Interface

Teamcenter 8’s exclusive MS Office user interface offers breakthrough integration with MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Teamcenter 8 adds a “ribbon” to your MS Office application’s toolbar to make it easier to interact with product information that is described in MS Office documents and spreadsheets. You can interact with any type of data using familiar search and organization tools right within the MS Office application.

Following are the Teamcenter 8 capabilities available to you from MS Word, MS Excel and PowerPoint:

• Browse for information using folders (much like you would browse for files on your file system)
• Search for information using powerful Teamcenter search capabilities
• Create, view and update data (Create/Open/Check-In/Check-Out/Save/Save As)
• Insert images and metadata
• Access your worklist
• View Properties (e.g. view details about a part)

All these functions can easily be selected from Teamcenter 8’s familiar MS Office user interface. This means your company can save time and money by making it easier for people to use Teamcenter with little training required.

MS Word and MS Excel “Live” Authoring and Editing

Beyond the MS Office 2007 user interface, Teamcenter 8 offers a richer level of integration with MS Word and MS Excel that takes users to a whole new level of data aggregation and manipulation while maintaining a dynamic link to the associated data in Teamcenter.

• Author and edit any type of Teamcenter information from within MS Word and MS Excel
• Save a MS Word document or MS Excel spreadsheet back to the Teamcenter database
• Change a paragraph or property to change the object in Teamcenter in real-time
• Documents and spreadsheets become the user interface to Teamcenter

With Teamcenter 8, you can edit Teamcenter information from the familiar desktop applications you are used to, without switching to a separate Teamcenter client. And, the resulting MS Word documents and MS Excel spreadsheets are up-to-date and trustworthy.

Review and Complete Tasks from Microsoft Outlook

If you’re like most computer users today, you spend a fair amount of your day in Microsoft Outlook. With Teamcenter 8’s MS Outlook integration, your Teamcenter scheduling assignments, workflow tasks, and change assignments can be accessed directly from a “Teamcenter To Do” list inside of your MS Outlook Tasks.

• Fully interact with your Teamcenter “To Do’s” completely within MS Outlook
• View your assignments, navigate to associated data, and comment/sign off on reviews from within your MS Outlook task list
• No synching required

Teamcenter 8 makes it much easier for you to stay on top of your Teamcenter assignments by presenting them to you in the application you are in everyday. Whether your role is management, engineering, purchasing or any other function across the enterprise, you can interact with your tasks from a user interface that you already know.

Teamcenter Inside MCAD

Teamcenter 8’s integration with NX computer-aided design (CAD) software takes design productivity to new heights. You can reduce your product development cycle times by enhancing your NX environment to both manage and accelerate design collaboration for any size engineering team.

Teamcenter provides seamless management, control and security for your NX data. Without exiting the NX environment, you can rapidly search for designs, as well as manage data revisions, product configurations and changes to those product configurations in single or multi-site deployments. Teamcenter also provide instant access to reusable designs by allowing you to dynamically access and search Teamcenter’s classification hierarchy from within your NX session.

In addition to the specialized NX integration, Teamcenter offers integrations with other MCAD tools, including AutoCAD, Inventor, Catia, NX I-deas Series, Pro/Engineer, Solid Edge and SolidWorks.

Teamcenter Inside ECAD

Teamcenter 8 introduces a robust set of integrations with ECAD tools, which embed Teamcenter menus within your native ECAD application, including Mentor Graphics Board Station, Mentor Graphics PADS, Cadence Allegro, Cadence OrCAD, Mentor Graphics.Expedition, Altium Designer and Intercept Pantheon. When embedded menus aren’t suitable, Teamcenter 8 also offers a gateway for integration with additional ECAD tools.

The Teamcenter ECAD integrations allow you to capture PCB design data (schematic, physical layout, BOM, fabrication, assembly and visualization data) created under the native ECAD applications and store/manage this information within Teamcenter. Teamcenter provides a comprehensive solution for the entire electronics product lifecycle that extends from initial inception through creation, analysis, manufacturing, service and end-of-life disposition.