Teamcenter overview

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By providing a comprehensive portfolio of digital lifecycle

management solutions, Teamcenter® software enables you to
maximize the power of your product knowledge and leverage
it to increase the profitability and productivity of every stage
in your product lifecycle.
UGS digital lifecycle management
Powering your PLM strategy
In today’s digitized economy,
product lifecycle management
(PLM) provides you with a
unique opportunity to:
Maximize innovation throughout
your product lifecycle, which
translates into higher
revenues, greater market
share, faster take-to-market
times and improved portfolio
success rates.
Transform the decision-making
processes you use to determine
what products you should
offer, how these products
should be brought to market,
and what participants perform
most effectively in your
product lifecycle.
Increase the value of your
product and marketing knowledge
by managing this diverse
intellectual property on an
enterprise basis and leveraging
it across multiple programs and
revenue-generating initiatives.
Minimize lifecycle cost by
replacing time-consuming
traditional processes with fully
digitized, accelerated solutions.
To enable your product lifecycle
to realize these opportunities
and maximize its business value,
PLM solutions need to:
Facilitate competitiveness
by enabling your company
to rigorously execute lean
lifecycle processes.
Improve business system
interoperability by enabling every
entitled lifecycle participant to
exchange and share product
knowledge even if this
information resides in disparate
geographic, organizational and
technological domains.
Increase product quality by
implementing systematic change
controls, accommodating late-
breaking configuration changes,
synchronizing multiple bills of
material, and eliminating
redundant product designs.
Optimize the use of factory
resources by linking people,
plants and processes across
your enterprise, accounting for
the impact of design change on
manufacturing and adopting
fully effective design-for-
manufacturability initiatives.
Improve supply chain efficiency
by eliminating delivery delays,
removing collaboration barriers,
reducing part proliferation and
facilitating effective data sharing.
To address these challenges,
UGS offers Teamcenter digital
lifecycle management.
Introducing Teamcenter

Teamcenter powers innovation and productivity by connecting
people and processes with knowledge. Teamcenter’s comprehensive
portfolio of proven digital lifecycle management solutions is
built on an open PLM foundation. Teamcenter is the de facto
standard for PLM deployment and is backed by UGS’ leadership
in delivery.
Business solutions. Teamcenter provides solutions for
business initiatives, including the target initiatives shown below.
These solutions drive business performance goals, including the
need to increase the yield of innovation, compress time-to-market,
meet business and regulatory requirements, optimize operational
resources and maximize globalization advantages.
Proven delivery. Teamcenter’s business solutions include
best practices and industry-specific processes that enable
your company to:
• Rapidly deploy your solution
• Obtain a quick return on your PLM investment
• Minimize your cost of ownership
• Ensure solution acceptance across your
user communities

Teamcenter solutions target critical business initiatives

• New product development

Improve product innovation by facilitating real-time collaboration
among all lifecycle participants and processes

• Value chain synchronization

Excel globally by optimizing the exchange of ideas and information
across every value-chain stage

• Enterprise data management

Improve competitiveness by providing secure access to your
enterprise’s product/process data

• Commonization and re-use

Re-use proven parts, equipment and processes to create cost
efficiency and best practices

• Knowledge/intellectual property management

Capture the knowledge/expertise of your lifecycle participants
to continuously improve innovation

• Regulatory compliance
Achieve market compliance by integrating safety, environmental
and government requirements early in your design cycle

• Production efficiency
Integrate product/process design with manufacturing best
practices to increase production quality and performance

• Systems engineering and mechatronics

Improve your customers’ value experience by optimizing
mechanical, electrical, and software subsystems, constraints
and components

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Teamcenter’s business value
Accelerating time-to-market
Teamcenter enables you to execute all
of your projects in parallel processes that
accelerate program execution. Getting to
market sooner delivers more revenue while
distinguishing your products in a crowded
marketplace.
Engineering change –
90 percent faster
Maximizing top line growth
Product innovation drives revenue growth.
Teamcenter enables you to create and
capture customer requirements and align
these requirements with downstream
decision-making to deliver products that
customers want for a price they are
willing to pay.
Web market test –
2 times introduction
price point
Minimizing product and lifecycle costs
Teamcenter minimizes the expense of
planning, developing, manufacturing and
servicing your products by eliminating
rework, facilitating the commonization and
re-use of platforms and components, and
providing visibility to the resource impacts
of proposed changes.
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Dramatically increasing
product quality
By using Teamcenter to integrate quality
constraints into product definitions, you
can assess these metrics across every
lifecycle stage and ensure adherence to
packaging, functionality, usability,
engineering, manufacturability, serviceability
and regulatory standards.
Component selection –
2 to 5 percent
materials savings
Streamlining process efficiency
You can use Teamcenter to improve
operational efficiency by establishing
automated processes to launch work
tasks, track execution and apply workflow
rules and defined user roles.
RFQ response –
30 percent faster with
higher win ratio
Increasing productivity
Teamcenter improves personal and team
productivity. Web portals enable users to
rapidly view product knowledge attuned to
their everyday roles and experiences.
Virtual product models allow teams to
interrogate and validate aligned product
concepts without waiting for costly
physical prototypes.
Document handling –
80 percent cost reduction
Maximizing commonization
and re-use
Teamcenter captures information from
diverse authoring systems so that designs,
documents, plans, processes and product
definitions can be re-used for multiple
purposes, including the rapid development
of common product platforms with
variations and derivatives.
Specification management –
2 to 5 percent
materials savings
Teamcenter advantages Why it matters

De facto standard Teamcenter’s market-leading success ensures your company that PLM delivers proven
for PLM deployment results in real-world, full-production settings. The world’s most successful companies
deploy Teamcenter as a mission-critical system because:
• Teamcenter delivers unsurpassed PLM technology
• Teamcenter clients already experience substantial business results
• Teamcenter’s scalable architecture enables clients to adopt PLM at their own pace
Complete portfolio of Teamcenter’s solutions portfolio enables you to establish a collaborative environment
lifecycle solutions that links people with the product knowledge they need to drive process excellence
across every lifecycle stage. Teamcenter provides solutions for:
• Engineering process management
• Enterprise knowledge management
• Portfolio and program management
• Community collaboration
• Systems engineering
• Compliance management
• Lifecycle visualization
• Supplier relationship management
• Maintenance, repair and overhaul
Leadership in delivery Backed by UGS’ leadership in delivery, Teamcenter solutions are employed by more than
2 million users – the world’s largest PLM customer base. UGS’ industry-specific solutions and
best practice templates enable you to gain a rapid return on your Teamcenter investment.
Open PLM foundation Teamcenter’s open foundation future-proofs your PLM investment and facilitates vendor
independence. The foundation leverages widely accepted standards, including Java 2
Enterprise Edition, Microsoft .NET Framework, UDDI, XML, SOAP, JSP technology and
the JT file format.
Teamcenter’s scalable, service-oriented architecture meets client needs that range in size
from small to large deployments. Teamcenter’s open foundation enables you to integrate
mission-critical ERP, CRM and SCM investments into your PLM environment.

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Teamcenter for engineering process management
Teamcenter Engineering enables product teams to capture
engineering knowledge from multiple MCAD, ECAD, CAM and
CAE systems. Teamcenter Engineering integrates this data into
a single source of product information you can leverage in
automated release, design management, engineering process
management, digital validation, engineering change and team
collaboration processes.
Teamcenter Engineering also enables the open manufacturing
backbone, which, along with its ability to integrate with ERP
systems including SAP, helps companies leverage their engineering
data into manufacturing and production processes.
Classification facilitates the re-use of parts, processes and
knowledge – captured from your designs – by enabling you to
quickly find information through defined classifications and
standard part, product and process catalogs.
Change management provides preconfigured solutions for
formal and less formal processes to initiate, review/approve
and execute product change on an enterprise basis.
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Product configuration includes platform designer capabilities
you can use to manage product variability independently of any
product structure, and product designer capabilities that enable
you to leverage generic modules for specific product variations.
Context management facilitates repeatable product, design
and manufacturing process validation. Advanced features support
high performance, spatial, attribute and classification searching
of complex product configurations.
Lifecycle representations provide the ability to associatively
define multiple representations of different lifecycle stages or uses
for a product or process. For example, Teamcenter can create a
manufacturing planning process, or derive a manufacturing BOM
from engineering.
Teamcenter Express is an easy-to-deploy solution that meets
the product data management needs of mid-sized companies.
It enables engineers to manage design data and communicate
its intent through workflow processes that incorporate
preconfigured best practices applicable to everyday
engineering tasks.
Teamcenter for enterprise knowledge management

Teamcenter Enterprise enables you to expand your product Product structure, configuration management and
knowledge management and process automation capabilities visualization enable you to integrate information generated
across an extended enterprise of departmental and divisional by multiple applications and create higher-level product
operations, partners and suppliers. Using Teamcenter, you can representations (such as product models and virtual prototypes).
manage diverse product-related intellectual property created
Visualization and collaboration enables dispersed
by enterprise participants in a secure environment that only
team members to view, mark up and exchange higher-level
allows access by entitled users.
product representations.
By capturing, integrating, and controlling all of your product,
Process management lets teams define automated processes
process, manufacturing and service knowledge in a single PLM
with repeatable rules, user roles and workflow definitions that
environment, Teamcenter Enterprise enables lifecycle participants
can be re-used across multiple programs.
to synchronize their product assumptions, make on-the-mark
business decisions and incorporate aligned information into Teamcenter Enterprise also provides change management,
automated processes. parts classification, release management, option and variant
management, event notification, relationship management
Application-specific integrations enable information
and process innovations.
authors to leverage their application of choice (e.g., MCAD,
ECAD, CAE, CAM, CASE and document management
systems). Once this work is ready for sharing, authors use
these integrations to quickly submit this information.Teamcenter
Enterprise’s ERP integrations support the hand-off of engineering
data to manufacturing.
Vaulting, versioning, check-in/check-out and security
enable you to manage your aggregate knowledge in Teamcenter’s
global repository.

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Teamcenter for portfolio and program management

Teamcenter offers a complete infrastructure for strategic planning, Within Teamcenter’s portfolio management environment, organizations
program and project management directly linked to detailed execution can clearly define their company’s high level strategic goals through the
across the product lifecycle. use of weighted strategic objectives, scoring models and performance
criteria that outline the relative merits of ideas, projects and programs
Teamcenter for Portfolio and Program Management helps companies
throughout their lifecycle.
make the right strategic investments while ensuring their ability to
execute and manage their initiatives. With modular solutions for
Program execution management ensures program
Portfolio Management and Program Execution Management,
performance
Teamcenter provides a complete suite of Product Portfolio
Teamcenter’s solution for program execution management provides
Management (PPM) solutions for the entire product lifecycle.
executives, product managers and program managers with increased
visibility into program performance, extending their control over
Portfolio management prioritizes product innovation
deliverables and ensuring overall accountability.
Teamcenter’s unique set of portfolio management capabilities help
companies ensure that they are working on the right innovation Teamcenter provides total visibility to your most up-to-date and
projects with the right resources in the right strategic areas complete program information, including rolled-up performance
throughout the product lifecycle. A collaborative infrastructure for metrics, process metrics, custom strategy-specific KPI and risk analysis
portfolio definition and management enables organizations to establish metrics. This enables effective execution by understanding resource,
a formal environment where they can balance an often dizzying array time and financial demands across the product lifecycle.
of brands, product lines, product offerings, product options,
technologies, investment opportunities and ideas while making
complex portfolio decisions.

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Teamcenter for community collaboration

Teamcenter Community provides a secure, adaptive and scalable Visual collaboration enables members to leverage a wide range
environment that product teams can use to visually collaborate of tools, including 3D product visualizations, instant messaging,
across the entire product lifecycle – with little or no investment in digital calendars and digital schedules.
training users in how to employ a PLM or CAD system.
Teamcenter Community enables team members to integrate their
Teamcenter Community enables product teams to work existing desktops into a collaborative environment that combines
with their suppliers, allied partners and trusted customers in the robust advantages of PLM with the familiarity of the Microsoft
a real-time environment that facilitates the rapid formation Office desktop environment. Because Teamcenter Community
of sourcing teams, concept studies, program reviews, design plugs into your web-based business environment, you can leverage
reviews and engineering change processes. To support the knowledge retained in your legacy ERP, SCM and CRM systems
these initiatives, Teamcenter Community offers the following alongside the product knowledge managed by Teamcenter.
capabilities.
Virtual teaming enables you to invite individual team members
to join virtual conference rooms, where they can engage in
managed collaborative processes.
Structured and unstructured knowledge management
allows you to capture ad-hoc information that resides in
emails and individual desktops and integrate it with product
knowledge already managed by Teamcenter. This structured
and unstructured knowledge can be shared in a single
environment that facilitates visual product collaboration.
Personalized views match individual members with their
user roles, workflow responsibilities and security entitlements.

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Teamcenter for systems engineering

Teamcenter for Systems Engineering provides an interdisciplinary Connected requirements allow you to link requirements with
environment you can use to fully understand your products quantifiable program constraints, including project costs, delivery
and improve product development. By facilitating whole-product schedules and objective measurements such as performance,
understanding, Teamcenter enables you to align trade-off ergonomic, usability, reliability, maintainability and regulatory
decisions made at multiple lifecycle stages with your product’s metrics. Once you establish these requirements and constraints,
strategic intent. you can use Teamcenter to connect these attributes to fine-grain
design elements that you can trace across the configurations and
Systems architect allows you to understand the customer
product definitions that describe a product's various lifecycle states.
requirements, program constraints, engineering issues and
manufacturing/supply chain issues that pertain to your Closed-loop feedback alerts lifecycle stakeholders when
whole product – mitigating the risk associated with new program constraints are in danger of being violated and when
product development. You can optimize your products review teams need to understand the impact of proposed
on an interdisciplinary basis by simultaneously considering design/requirement changes.
performance, cost-effectiveness, regulatory guidelines, quality
concerns and reliability considerations. When design and
requirement changes are proposed, you can assess their
cost and scheduling impact.
Requirements management enables you to define, capture,
manage and leverage product requirements on an enterprise basis,
as well as verify that your product offerings comply with these
requirements. This allows you to maximize your products' revenue
potential by ensuring that you deliver products aligned with your
strategic intent – providing the right product content at the right
time to the right market.

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Teamcenter for compliance management

Teamcenter supports compliance management by enabling you Export control. Teamcenter’s Authorized Data Access solution
to capture regulatory requirements early in the product lifecycle addresses the need to control the export of regulated information
and integrate these requirements into the product definitions as specified by requirements such as the U.S. International Traffic
that evolve across your lifecycle. By providing process visibility in Arms Regulations (ITAR). This solution applies export-specific
and integrity to regulatory issues, Teamcenter enables you to controls at the program level by leveraging Teamcenter’s robust
approach compliance as a strategic initiative rather than simply knowledge management and collaboration capabilities.
as a reporting activity.
Document and records management. Teamcenter’s
Teamcenter’s family of compliance management solutions document and records management capabilities help companies
addresses a variety issues. establish a compliance-related data lifecycle management solution
that meets the requirements of the U.S. Department of Defense
Environmental compliance. Teamcenter’s Environmental
5015.2 standard and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Teamcenter
Compliance solution enables product makers to comply
enables you to define what data you need for regulatory compliance,
with End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV), Restriction on the Use of
what format this information must take and how long the information
Hazardous Substances (RoHS) and Waste from Electrical and
has to be retained.
Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directives. The solution facilitates
the end-to-end collection, management and reporting of
environmental compliance and material content information.
Medical compliance. Teamcenter’s Medical Compliance solution
enables companies to manage digital product information in
accordance with the regulatory requirements for the medical
devices industry and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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Teamcenter for lifecycle visualization

Teamcenter Visualization’s family of solutions enables lifecycle Teamcenter Visualization Professional delivers full-function
participants to visualize product data in 2D and 3D formats 2D/3D analysis capabilities for 3D investigation, such as collaborative
even when this data is created using diverse authoring software. virtual design reviews that involve multi-CAD assemblies.
Teamcenter Visualization:
Teamcenter Visualization Mockup provides sophisticated
• Enables extended enterprise participants to take part in the digital mockup capabilities you can use to assemble a complete
design process early and often without incurring the cost or digital prototype and perform advanced analysis to validate form,
complexity associated with CAD systems. fit and function issues.
• Facilitates more fully informed lifecycle decisions by letting Teamcenter Visualization can be extended with process-specific
product teams exchange and mark up universally accessible add-ons, including immersive virtual reality, automated clearance
visualizations as part of their PLM workflows. analysis, technical publishing, virtual human, tolerance simulation,
quality validation, animation creation and assembly path planning.
• Streamlines innovation by allowing product teams to visually
collaborate on new product ideas, test their validity and
evaluate virtual prototypes.
Teamcenter Visualization is powered by JT technology,
which has become the world’s common language for 3D
collaboration. Teamcenter Visualization matches your
company-specific needs by providing scalable service levels.
Teamcenter Visualization Base provides everyone in your
enterprise with a view into the product lifecycle through full
function 2D capabilities and basic 3D visualization functionality.
Teamcenter Visualization Standard provides enterprise
2D/3D view and markup capabilities so that lifecycle contributors
and stakeholders can interact with advanced product data.

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Teamcenter for supplier relationship management

Teamcenter’s unique approach to supplier relationship

management combines e-sourcing, knowledge management
and collaboration technology to provide your supply chain
stakeholders with a single source of product, process and
sourcing information.
UGS is uniquely positioned to fuse this technology into supplier
relationships that enable you to improve the cost effectiveness
of your procurement initiatives, as well as increase the innovation
and collaboration capabilities of your domestic and off-shored
product development operations.
Teamcenter addresses classical sourcing needs, such as
supplier identification, supplier assessment, and sourcing
negotiations, as well as extended processes that drive key
supplier relationships including quality monitoring, engineering
change, inter-company teaming, supplier training, engineering
services support, joint project management, issue tracking
and performance monitoring.
Teamcenter for SRM provides the following
online solutions.
RFP enables you to automatically distribute RFPs
and surveys, easily complete online questionnaires,
automate supplier communications, and perform
rapid response analysis.
Spend management allows you to track
enterprise spending and compliance.
Auctions brings the negotiation process online
while enabling bidding on both price and non-
price components.
Sourcing community provides a collaborative
project-driven workbench with sourcing tools
you can use to “market” deals, educate people about
new agreements, capture/share sourcing knowledge
and manage your sourcing projects.
Supplier management enables you to identify,
engage and evaluate suppliers; it also facilitates supplier
self-registration.
These proven solutions substantially reduce material costs
and increase the productivity of your sourcing initiatives.
They also improve sourcing response times, enhance your
analytical capability and enable on-board suppliers to fully
understand and actively participate in your product
requirements, definition and development processes.

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Teamcenter for maintenance, repair and overhaul

Teamcenter for MRO provides a suite of solutions that enable

organizations to transform the processes associated with
maintaining, repairing and overhauling complex operational assets.
By using a configuration-driven approach to managing operational
knowledge, the Teamcenter for MRO suite addresses the needs
of OEMs/prime contractors, owners/operators and third-party
service providers who require:
Asset management to capture, link and manage
full configurations of operational assets in their
as-designed, as-built and as-maintained lifecycle states.
Maintenance planning to establish, roll up and
forecast maintenance requirements; define service
resources; optimize service visits; account for
unscheduled maintenance; and analyze individual
assets in terms of their operational life-limits
and utilization.
Maintenance execution to assign and track work
orders on the basis of their related zone, process
and skill sets, as well as to support audit and
compliance verification programs.
Material management to capture and manage parts, tools
and equipment inventory and track their related life-limits,
shelf life, dispositions, usage rates and histories.
Teamcenter for MRO enables organizations to plan and
deliver MRO services more effectively, maximize the operational
availability of managed assets and ensure compliance with
service-related metrics Teamcenter for MRO can provide accurate
and up-to-date product and process knowledge at the service
team’s point of need.
By delivering a true configuration of an asset before and during
service depot events, Teamcenter provides a basis for improving
maintenance planning, service quality, event resolution and response
times. Teamcenter for MRO can also be used to capture the
service experience for feedback to ongoing engineering and
service programs.

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Teamcenter add-on capabilities

Teamcenter allows your enterprise to replicate and synchronize

information across multiple connected applications.
Out-of-the-box application integrations enable
application authors to create information once and maintain
it at the source while subsequently enabling other users to
employ this information throughout the product lifecycle.
These integrations automatically register metadata and data
files in Teamcenter when authors initially create or subsequently
change their application data. Teamcenter retains highly accurate
database paths to define where this data physically resides
and metadata (i.e., data attributes) to facilitate rapid search
and retrieval. You can leverage well established connectors into the native
Standards-based enterprise application integrations APIs of specific Teamcenter applications (such as Teamcenter
enable you to interrogate your PLM environment and its Engineering and Teamcenter Enterprise) to enforce security and
interconnected ERP, SCM and CRM systems. You can draw business rules, as well as to fully utilize the entire object and
unified information out of these systems in real-time and security databases of the underlying Teamcenter application as-is.
present it to requesting users, as well as exchange information Users can generate ad-hoc reports, schedule report deliveries
between connected applications in response to product-related and perform business-related analytics with unprecedented speed.
changes/events.
Reporting and analytics provide simple tools to gain
unprecedented visibility into your Teamcenter-managed
data. You can establish a “visibility infrastructure” to define
and generate reports in a wide variety of ways, including as
customizable HTML formats, emails, PDFs, Excel spreadsheets
and graphical representations that are viewable in dashboard display.
About UGS UGS leads to greater innovation
UGS is a leading global provider of product There is no single road to innovation, but there
lifecycle management (PLM) software are signs you’re headed in the right direction.
and services with nearly 4 million licensed Leading innovators get to market faster, manage
seats and 46,000 customers worldwide. compliance, optimize resources and achieve
Headquartered in Plano,Texas, UGS’ vision globalization. They’re also four times more
is to enable a world where organizations likely to use PLM software to plan, define,
and their partners collaborate through build and support their products. UGS’
Global Innovation Networks to deliver
family of PLM solutions helps businesses
world-class products and services while
establish Global Innovation Networks
leveraging UGS’ open enterprise solutions,
that transform their process of
fulfilling the mission of enabling them
innovation. Drive your business
to transform their process of innovation.
For more information on UGS products to greater innovation and
and services, visit www.ugs.com. accelerate your growth.

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