Teamcenter 2007 Marks 'New Era' in PLM Market
02 October 2007 - 10:00PM
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Next Generation of the World's Most Widely Used Digital Platform
Delivers the Industry's First Unified Architecture Giving Customers
'Greater Powers' to Drive Innovation PLANO, Texas, Oct. 2
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Siemens PLM Software, a division of
Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) and a leading global
provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and
services, today announced Teamcenter(R) 2007 software, the latest
version of its PLM industry-leading digital platform and software
portfolio. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070904/SIEMENSLOGO) Boasting
a complete service-oriented architecture (SOA), easy-to-use
interface and comprehensive end-to-end PLM solution set, Teamcenter
2007 significantly lowers the total cost of ownership for PLM
technology and establishes greater productivity for manufacturers
through a single source of product and process knowledge.
"Teamcenter 2007 marks a new era of PLM market maturity with the
industry's first solution to move beyond individual software
applications to establish a truly integrated PLM solution across
disciplines, project phases and programs based upon SOA
approaches," said Michel Vrinat, Collaborative Product Development
Associates analyst. "The rich capabilities in Teamcenter 2007 bode
well for its continued industry leadership in the PLM marketplace."
Greater Manageability Teamcenter 2007 was developed with a focus on
lowering the total cost of PLM ownership through a series of
enhancements and features that simplify and accelerate
implementations, enhance productivity, streamline collaboration and
expand control of the entire product lifecycle process. One of the
most powerful examples of this lower cost of ownership is found in
Teamcenter's new Business Modeler Integrated Development
Environment (BMIDE). The BMIDE enables software configuration
versus customization along with rapid deployment of changes to
remote sites through implementation templates and live server
synchronization. In addition, Teamcenter 2007 includes a complete
SOA technology foundation throughout the entire portfolio,
delivering the industry's first fully unified PLM suite. The
greater manageability enabled through Teamcenter 2007 sets a new
standard for an easy- to-configure PLM environment, enabling
companies to eliminate costly implementations and significantly
reduce the time necessary to deploy a production-ready system.
"SOA-based PLM reduces the cost and complexity of deploying and
maintaining a distributed PLM environment," says Ed Miller,
President of industry consulting and research firm CIMdata.
"Siemens PLM Software has delivered their new unified architecture
capability with the ability to coexist and interoperate with
current Teamcenter implementations. This means that the upgrade
path for existing Teamcenter customers can be much more cost-
effective." A select group of Siemens PLM Software customers have
been using Teamcenter 2007 in a production environment for the past
several months as part of the company's Leadership Program. This
program has served to validate how the complete SOA implementation
simplifies several tasks for customers. In one example,
Teamcenter's unified database enabled a customer to perform its
upgrade all at once -- rather than through individual steps and
synchronization of several components. The single data model also
makes it much easier to perform tasks like data mining and
connecting to ERP systems. The end result is a significant savings
in time and development resources. In addition to being easy to
deploy, Teamcenter 2007 also establishes a lower cost of ownership
through an easy to use interface. A new common look and feel based
on the Microsoft user interface simplifies user adoption and
reduces training costs. "I believe we will be able to lower our
total cost of ownership by reducing training costs simply because
of the familiar Windows-like user interface of Teamcenter 2007,"
said Matt Bronowski, project manager of Next Generation PLM for
BSH. "This will particularly help in regions like Asia where we're
growing very rapidly and employing many new people. It's critical
to bring these people up to speed very quickly, and we believe the
latest version of Teamcenter will allow us to do that." Greater
Productivity and Teamwork By providing a single source of product
and process knowledge along with the ability to enable instant
collaboration on a global basis, Teamcenter 2007 delivers greater
productivity and teamwork. As a result, companies have more time to
focus on developing innovative solutions that create real business
value. "BSH needs to distribute data to nearly 40 different R&D
departments around the world and keep everybody in these
departments consistently updated with the latest product
information," said Uwe Tontsch, head of IT for Product Development
and Industrial Engineering Solutions, BSH. "That is where
Teamcenter 2007, as the single source for this information, is more
or less the backbone and the relay station; so everybody gets the
information when needed in the process. That brings us not only the
benefit of time to market, but also a much higher process security
and therefore less failures in the design process due to lack of
updates or wrong version information." By unifying all
product-related data, Teamcenter 2007 creates fast, easy access to
just the right information regardless of the end user's location or
job responsibility. This information can then be effectively
leveraged with new process knowledge enhancements for embedded
requirements management providing the ability to allocate
requirements to mechanical, electrical, electronics, and software
systems to more effectively manage the impact of change. Teamcenter
2007 also simplifies bill-of-material (BOM) management with new
tools to visualize and browse complex product relationships,
aligning design BOMs with business BOMs, and enabling BOM editing
and redlining. In addition, the Teamcenter 2007 Leadership Program
highlighted how customers can save significant amounts of time in
activities such as design reviews by using Teamcenter as a single
source of knowledge and collaboration. For example, one leadership
customer discovered that when they needed to collaborate on a
product development project with other locations, they could gather
and share all of the information necessary, including all of the 3D
models, in a single afternoon -- a process that used to take three
to four weeks. As a result, designers and engineers can spend less
time on paperwork and are free to do more creative design work.
Greater Control With the industry's most comprehensive suite of
powerful end-to-end PLM applications and an unparalleled level of
integration among them, Teamcenter 2007 provides companies with
greater control by allowing them to connect all of their processes
into a cohesive system that enhances efficiency and improves
management visibility throughout the product lifecycle.
Manufacturers of all sizes can increase the speed and confidence of
management decision making by aligning new product and service
introduction efforts with market requirements. Tight software
integration eliminates the need to re-enter data from one process
to the next and Teamcenter's scalability and breadth of modular
applications enables even small to medium size manufacturers to
deploy a cost effective system that can be easily expanded as the
business grows. The enhanced visibility afforded by Teamcenter 2007
can positively affect both top-line and bottom-line business value.
Revenue potential is increased by validating ideas against market
opportunities, producing products that are better aligned with
market needs and delivering them on time before the competition. At
the same time, operating and process costs are reduced through a
more efficient and coordinated effort among various departments and
greater flexibility built into the product development network.
"Siemens PLM Software appears to be ahead of its competitors in
driving product data management functions across the board in
product development projects," said Dick Slansky, ARC Advisory
Group. "Their broad scope of solutions is impressive but it's the
integration of those end-to-end offerings that creates real value
for manufacturers." Greater Success Any major enterprise
application, such as PLM, can have a profound impact on the company
that selects it and deploys it. An unproven system or proprietary
niche supplier can put an organization at risk. As the clear market
leader, Teamcenter has an unchallenged record of proven global
leadership. In addition to being recognized with several industry
awards over the past two years, Teamcenter and Siemens PLM Software
have earned the trust and loyalty of the global manufacturing
community. The company's top 100 customers have been clients for an
average of 17 years, and the three million installed licenses of
Teamcenter represent more than seven times the install base of the
next closest competitor. In fact, more companies trust Teamcenter
to manage their product knowledge than the next three competitors
combined. "By listening to the market and understanding the
challenges of the global manufacturing community, our development
team has been able to produce the world's most advanced and
complete PLM offering that is both easy-to-deploy and use," said
Chuck Grindstaff, executive vice president of Products, Siemens PLM
Software. "As a result, our customers can spend less time on non-
productive tasks and more time on producing the world's most
innovative new products." Teamcenter 2007 is available immediately.
For more information please visit
http://www.ugs.com/teamcenter2007. About Siemens PLM Software
Siemens PLM Software, a division of Siemens Automation and Drives
(A&D), is a leading global provider of product lifecycle
management (PLM) software and services with 4.3 million licensed
seats and 47,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano,
Texas, Siemens PLM Software's open enterprise solutions enable a
world where organizations and their partners collaborate through
global innovation networks to deliver world-class products and
services. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and
services, visit http://www.siemens.com/ugs. About Siemens
Automation and Drives The Siemens Automation and Drives Group
(A&D), Nuremberg, Germany, is the leading manufacturer in this
field worldwide. Products supplied by A&D include standard
products for the manufacturing and process industries and for the
electrical installation industry as well as system solutions, for
example for machine tools, and solutions for whole industries such
as the automation of entire automobile factories or chemical
plants. Supplementing this range of products and services, A&D
also offers software for linking production and management
(horizontal and vertical IT integration) and for optimizing
production processes. A&D employs 70,600 people worldwide and
in fiscal year 2006 (to September 30) earned a group profit of euro
1.572 billion on sales of euro 12.848 billion and orders of euro
14.108 billion, according to U.S. GAAP. Further information about
A&D is available in the Internet at
http://www.siemens.com/automation. Note: Siemens and the Siemens
logo are registered trademarks of Siemens AG. UGS Teamcenter and
Teamcenter are trademarks or registered trademarks of Siemens
Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. or its subsidiaries in
the United States and in other countries. All other product names
referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.
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