Teamcenter Express has proven to be a popular collaborative product data management (PDM) solution for small- and medium-size manufacturing organizations looking for a fast-to-implement solution for their data management needs. Companies using Teamcenter Express benefit from:

• Securing corporate design data while facilitating access by authorized personnel
• Increasing design re-use, enabled by a powerful and flexible search capability
• Streamlining engineering processes with simple design review and release workflows and effective change management
• Error reduction through more effective collaboration between departments and the elimination of mistake-prone manual handoffs to manufacturing
• apid deployment of a full-featured PDM solution

To provide improved scalability and commonality with Teamcenter, Siemens PLM Software has now introduced the Teamcenter software Rapid Start configuration to replace Teamcenter Express.

Teamcenter Express Version 9.1 is the last release of Teamcenter Express and standard maintenance is still available for our Teamcenter Express customers. When ready to upgrade, the recommended upgrade for Teamcenter Express customers is to Teamcenter Rapid Start. Contact your local channel partner or Siemens PLM Software representative to learn more about the easy transition from Teamcenter Express to Teamcenter Rapid Start.

Teamcenter Rapid Start delivers the world’s most widely implemented product data management (PDM) solution, Teamcenter, preconfigured to utilize common best practices and the expertise of Siemens PLM Software. The Rapid Start configuration gets you up and running with PDM quickly and cost-effec¬tively. By choosing preconfigured capabilities, you can minimize the costs of consulting and maintenance, allowing you to immediately realize the benefits of PDM with confidence that you have a growth path to product lifecycle management (PLM) when you need it.

For Solid Edge customers who are working with increasing volumes of Solid Edge files we offer Solid Edge SP, a Microsoft SharePoint®-based design management solution that provides easy vaulting and retrieval of Solid Edge files and related design data, together with a visual approach to managing linked documents, product structures and projects.