Engineering Process Management

Gain competitive advantage through optimized engineering performance

Teamcenter Engineering accelerates the product lifecycle by enabling your take-to-market teams to streamline their engineering processes.

With so much riding on the effective performance of the early stages of your product lifecycle, you need to establish sustainable competitive advantages in terms of your ability to:

• Integrate all of the CAD designs created by your value chain to define a product’s engineering content.
• Synchronize the engineering processes that require the participation of your entire value chain and their access to all of the product information they need to get their jobs done.
• Enable all of your product-related teams to work together effectively - without regard to any member’s physical location.
• Establish product configurations that you can manage, track, and re-use across an entire product lifecycle, as well as across multiple product offerings.
• Accelerate product delivery by enabling your design teams to seamlessly collaborate with your manufacturing teams.

To address these strategic issues, UGS offers the choice of two solutions:

Teamcenter Express is an easy-to-use, preconfigured and easy-to-deploy collaborative product development management (cPDM) solution designed to meet the requirements of mid-sized manufacturing companies. Teamcenter Express is an entry point into the powerful Teamcenter portfolio. Visit the Teamcenter Express site for details on its capabilities.

Teamcenter Engineering is a full engineering process management solution for multi-site product teams using a variety of CAD authoring applications. Teamcenter Engineering is especially adept at helping product development teams improve the efficiency of the earliest stages of the product lifecycle. Following are details on Teamcenter Engineering’s capabilities.

Engineering Process Management

Teamcenter Engineering's product structure allows you to manage all product information, not just CAD files.

Teamcenter Engineering provides engineering process management capabilities that streamline your product development processes while ensuring that you get the right product information to the right people at the right time.

It streamlines product development cycle times by enabling teams to automate and synchronize their engineering processes. State-of-the-market engineering collaboration must ensure that all critical product information is delivered to the right team members at the right time. Engineering collaboration must enable entitled users to quickly locate the product knowledge they need to perform their jobs, while eliminating unwieldy information searches.

Teamcenter Engineering surpasses the capabilities of traditional CAD file management by capturing all relevant product and process information and relating these assets to a common product structure.

It can manage all of your relevant CAD, CAM, and CAE information, as well as design specifications, documents, requirements, and other types of product-centric information. Its process management capabilities enable you to define engineering workflows that enforce company-specific business rules and efficiently execute your automated product-related processes.

Teamcenter Engineering Advantages

Multi-CAD Integration. Teamcenter Engineering allows engineering and manufacturing teams to synchronize design data, share design models in workflow-driven processes, and collaborate across a fully digital environment. By combining these capabilities, your company can improve its product quality, reduce time and cost to manufacture, and accelerate your entire product lifecycle. It enables you to leverage your CAD investments in new processes by tightly integrating multiple, dissimilar CAD systems, including Unigraphics NX, I-deas NX Series, Solid Edge, AutoCAD, CATIA, Pro/Engineering and SolidWorks.

Multi-Site Collaboration. Teamcenter Engineering is the leader in multi-site collaboration and knowledge sharing -- enabling you to federate your cooperating databases into a single logical system. It allows geographically dispersed product teams, or even separate companies, to collaborate in common design and team members to participate in automated engineering and manufacturing processes.

Visual Product Collaboration. Teamcenter Engineering’s integrated visualization capabilities and workflow management improve communications among team members, as well as collaboration with other lifecycle teams. This enables you to inject more innovative design content into your products while ensuring that your design content is properly aligned and fully concurrent. It allows you to capture all of your product and process definition data and enables you to configure it so this information can be leveraged to automate and expedite your downstream product lifecycle processes.

Teamcenter Engineering Benefits:

• Optimizes early stages of product lifecycle that can determine up to 80 percent of your product cost.
• Increases product innovation and flexibility enabling you to target new markets.
• Increases design and manufacturing concurrency
• Overcomes the barriers to communication among OEMs, suppliers, and their allied partners.
• Accelerates the introduction of new product offerings.
• Synchronizes the activities of globally dispersed teams.
• Catches costly design mistakes up front in your product lifecycle.
• Enables team members to securely access all information related to your product definitions.
• Ensures that everyone in your value chain is working from the same product assumptions.
• Leverages your value chain’s most current CAD, CAM, and CAE investments into new processes.
• Enables you to extend your business value rapidly and seamlessly by adding other Teamcenter solutions while protecting your current investments.