Community Collaboration

Teamcenter Community enhances your business initiatives for revenue growth

Manufacturers today are under intense pressure to deliver winning products to market more quickly, and at reduced costs. To achieve these goals, companies can no longer go it alone. They must engage partners and suppliers, and they can no longer rely on traditional methods of collaboration (phone, fax, meetings) to get the work done.

To compete in the digital economy, companies must form extended enterprises -- with participants across different continents, companies, time zones and computing platforms. These teams require a comprehensive set of collaboration services to connect individuals to individuals, and to connect them with the product knowledge of the extended enterprise.

To provide these services, UGS presents Community Collaboration. Community Collaboration is a web-based collaboration environment that extends the reach of Teamcenter's product lifecycle collaboration capabilities to everyone in the extended enterprise to enhance your key business initiatives for revenue growth:

• New Product Development (and Introduction -- NPDI)
  • Capture and automate knowledge to maximize success in current and future product and process development.
• Knowledge/Intellectual Property Management
  • Integrate people and processes to link key customer requirements with the functional execution and management of programs to design, simulate, validate, and manufacture innovative products.
• Value Chain Synchronization (Global Product Development, Supplier Collaboration)
  • Outline the exchange of knowledge and information about any element from idea to product to optimize global response to demand and effectiveness in the supply chain.

Community Collaboration Advantages

Teamcenter Community provides seamless integration with Teamcenter allowing you to securely share PLM data with globally dispersed teams and external partners at any point in the product development process. It provides a mechanism that allows users to capture ad-hoc knowledge and promote it into their corporate product knowledge warehouses (such as PDM, ERP, or legacy systems) where it can be managed and reused.

Teamcenter Community enables rich product data collaboration through integrated visualization allowing view, markup, and analysis of data from any of the corporate CAD or other document formats. Teamcenter Community allows you to leverage your CAD investments with tools that enable you to collaborate with 3D data from multiple, dissimilar systems using the CAD neutral JT format. All team members can view and interact with the virtual product without having to learn to use a CAD system. Teamcenter Community’s seamless integration with Teamcenter Visualization enables teams to tailor their environment for specific user needs that run the gamut from basic view and markup capabilities (typically used by supervisors and decision makers) to advanced digital mockup capabilities that pertain to designers and engineers.

Teamcenter Community provides a simple, easy to use environment for ad-hoc collaboration with PLM data. Users can have an unplanned, or planned, meeting and create collaboration groups on the fly without involvement from an administrator. Teamcenter Community’s intuitive web-based user-interface requires minimum user training and enables users to quickly create virtual team workspaces to gather ad-hoc knowledge and share product data.

Teamcenter Community enables product teams to easily capture and share a visual representation of product issues as part of their review and approval process. This information can be conveniently stored in a central location that all team members can access and interact with. Visual Issues gets everyone on the same page to reduce the time and costs associated with understanding and resolving engineering issues.

Teamcenter Community delivers integrated visual, document, and application sharing conference capabilities that allow globally dispersed product teams to review design issues and product concerns in real-time. These capabilities let team members quickly identify problems and reach mutual decisions, saving time, and minimize the need for travel.

Teamcenter Community is the best-in-class ad-hoc collaboration tool for product development available in the industry!

Teamcenter Community Benefits

• Reduce the frequency, time, and costs associated with design reviews and iterations.
• Securely link people with each other and diverse sources of product knowledge for better and faster product-related decisions.
• Optimize dynamic processes and teams to maximize team efficiency and productivity.
• Leverage existing IT strategy and investments for rapid deployment, reducing risk for rapid ROI.
• Enable enterprise wide collaboration on product data from simple documents to rich 3D product data.