Teamcenter 8 drives productivity across your global product development and manufacturing organization:

• Individual and team productivity to do more with less
• Application productivity for end-to-end PLM
• IT productivity for greater return-on-investment

Teamcenter 8 introduces a powerful new set of capabilities to increase productivity, from new Microsoft Office and Outlook integration to pre-configured IBM technology.

Capabilities

Teamcenter connects people throughout the lifecycle with a single source of product and process knowledge. Teamcenter’s comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end PLM solutions gives you the flexibility to choose the right mix of solutions for your business needs.

The latest release is Version 7 and features substantial advances in 5 axis impeller machining and feature-based automation. Other features include new virtual jog drag handles for simple tool positioning, improved valley rest milling, feed rate optimization, parallel tool path processing and Sinumerik spline output.

The latest release of Femap, version 10.2, further streamlines the interactive meshing process, speeds up results data handling and visualization, adds a new Topology Optimization capability, and continues to extend support to NX Nastran and Nastran in general.

Solid Edge ST3 delivers dramatic new ways to produce better designs faster. This latest release breaks new ground, leveraging synchronous technology to accelerate design, speed ECOs and improve imported 2D and 3D reuse. With improved simulation, collaboration, and thousands of customer-driven enhancements, Solid Edge ST3 continues to remove traditional barriers to design.

The latest release is Version 5.3, featuring faster completion of design-through-manufacturing projects through an improved user interface, faster and wider access to a single source of product data and support for the latest Teamcenter and Microsoft platforms

Manufacturing companies are driven by increasing pressure to develop innovative products in shorter time frames, while maintaining high levels of quality. Even with mature, capable 3D CAD technology, many companies have failed to significantly improve their design processes, and the benefits of lower costs and shorter cycle times remain elusive.

Transformation of product development begins with the design process, which fuels the entire product lifecycle – from simulation and analysis through tooling design, manufacturing, assembly, service and support.

Next-generation design technology

NX from Siemens PLM Software delivers next-generation design tools and technologies that help companies transform product development. Leading-edge design tools work in the context of the total development effort, fully integrating design with the other disciplines that bring products to market in a unified, managed environment.

NX design tools are superior in power, versatility, flexibility and productivity. From innovative Synchronous Technology that unites parametric and history-free modeling to NX Active Mockup for multi-CAD assembly design, NX delivers breakthrough technology that set new standards for speed, performance, and ease of use.

Using Simulation to Make Faster, More Informed Decisions

Effective use of digital simulation can help project managers reduce many downstream costs and risks. Often referred to as computer-aided engineering, or CAE, simulation enables engineers to understand, predict, and improve product performance digitally. More design concepts can be explored, which in turn reduces direct costs associated with expensive physical prototypes and enables faster, more informed decisions. The result is better performing products and higher margins.

The keys to maximizing the value of simulation applications are to use them both as early as possible and then throughout the development process. To this end, Siemens PLM Software offers a comprehensive suite of Digital Lifecycle Simulation solutions designed to meet the needs of multiple users within any engineering enterprise.

NX Lifecycle Simulation delivers:

• Reusable processes and knowledge-driven CAE as a unified part of the NX Digital Product Development environment
• Scalability and consistencybased on high-performance CAE technology
• Industrial-strength productivity where CAE results are “current and in the design loop”
• Intelligent multi-CAD geometry idealization • capabilities for CAE which automatically update as the design changes
• Multi-discipline solutions through integrated multi-physics, multi-discipline FEA and CFD solvers, and design-integrated multi-body motion simulation
• Simulation process and data managementacross a global organization and virtual supply chain for managing CAE models, results, reports and CAE “best practice” processes
• Open support for industry standard CAD and CAE data exchange formats: Parasolid, IGES, STEP, STL, UNV, NBD, XML; standard 3rd party CAE software integrations including ANSYS, ABAQUS, LS-Dyna and MSC NASTRAN; and customizability for in-house solutions
• Global design collaboration using JT for lightweight visualization

Shorter product development cycles are the primary driving force in manufacturing. Continuous innovation and change in designs require more and faster development of numerical control programs, molds, tools and dies required to manufacture the product. Rapid technology change is increasing the complexity of the tools and processes used in manufacturing, and new methodologies are breaking down the walls between design and manufacturing operations.

As the world leader in computer-aided manufacturing, Siemens PLM software helps companies meet the challenge with leading edge solutions. More than point solutions for discrete production tasks, the NX suite of manufacturing software links design and manufacturing to improve productivity throughout tooling and fixture design and NC machining processes.

Advanced technology in NX tooling solutions automates and accelerates the development of molds, dies, and fixtures for higher quality, lower cost and faster turnaround. For machining, NX delivers the range and depth of CAM performance that maximizes returns on investments in advanced machine tools. Linked with proven data and process controls, NX helps companies manage information to improve productivity and collaboration in manufacturing operations.

Bringing High Definition PLM to product development, NX 7 redefines productivity with a powerful suite of integrated CAD, CAE and CAM solutions. NX 7 takes full advantage of the High Definition PLM Technology Framework to improve decision making throughout the product development process.

Features

• Industrial Design & Styling
• Package Design
• Mechanical Design
• Electromechanical Systems Design
• Mechanical Simulation
• Electromechanical Simulation
• Tooling & Fixture Design
• Machining
• Engineering Process Management
• Inspection Programming
• Mechatronics Concept Designer

The D-Cubed components are six software libraries that can be licensed by software developers for integration into their products. The capabilities they provide include parametric sketching, part and assembly design, motion simulation, collision detection, clearance measurement and hidden line visualization.

Applications into which these components are integrated include mechanical CAD, CAM, CAE, mold, sheet metal, mechanism, garment, architectural, civil, structural, plant and ship design, GIS, CMM, reverse engineering and configurators.

Siemens PLM Software uses the D-Cubed components in its own products and licenses them to independent software vendors and end-user organizations for integration into their products and research projects.

Whether you are from a large or small organization, starting-up or already well established, our flexible licensing arrangements and simple, proven integration process enable you to enhance your products quickly and economically. By selecting the D-Cubed components you will be using those same technologies that are integrated into many of the world’s most successful engineering software products, which in turn are used by more than 4 million end-users.

Our large customer base provides compelling evidence for our market leading value, functionality, performance, quality and ease of integration, as well as your security of long term supply. By choosing the D-Cubed components you can be confident that you are maximizing the value of your software development investment whilst minimizing your business risk.

Benfits

• Design time reductions - Reusing previously designed parts
• Designer can reference existing designs and use available parts for new designs, make minor modifications to existing parts, or find a part that meets their precise requirements
• See how others solved a similar problem and use existing components
• Quick cost estimates and part cost reductions
• Modifying cost structures of previously manufactured parts provides a quick estimate based, in-part, on actual cost
• Simplifies comparison between suppliers even if parts are not identical
• Inventory cost reductions
• Unique parts may be eliminated at the design stage reducing inventory
• Sourcing efficiency
• Without any need for classifications parts names or order numbers, purchasing can gain a reliable market overview and compare parts available from different suppliers without having a designer's specialist knowledge.

JT Open is a unique program to help members leverage the benefits of open collaboration across the extended enterprise through the adoption of the JT format, a technology that makes it possible to view and share product information throughout the product lifecycle.

A picture is worth more than a thousand words. Success in design, manufacturing, and procurement reflects the ability to share information in a meaningful way. Sharing is accessing, understanding and utilizing data from another department, from another company, from another discipline –– across geographies and enterprises. Sharing intellectual capital speeds time to market. By sharing, companies increase ROI.

In the product lifecycle management process, much of the shared data is 2D and 3D graphical information. Often the most effective way to understand this data is to view it.

PLM Vis benefits

PLM Vis is a component technology that enables rapid development of collaborative applications by enabling a client to:

• Develop applications that automatically produce graphics from complex data
• Add a graphical capability to an existing application
• Create customized views of data impossible with off-the-shelf applications
• Develop applications that are scaleable in both model size and sophistication
• Develop applications that work across the Internet and from within a Web browser
• Interact with Fortune 500 companies that have adopted DirectModel(JT) for their collaborative viewing needs

PLM XML is an emerging Siemens PLM Software format for facilitating product lifecycle interoperability using XML. It is open and based on standard W3C XML schemas. Representing a variety of product data both explicitly and via references, PLM XML provides a lightweight, extensible and flexible mechanism for transporting high-content product data over the Internet, and aims to form the basis of a rich interoperability pipeline connecting Siemens PLM Software products and third party adopter applications.

This section provides information about PLM XML and access to PLM XML resources, specifically the PLM XML schemas and documentation, required to enable developers to introduce PLM XML support into their applications.

The PLM XML vision: high-content data sharing between applications

Interoperability issues within and between organizations using software applications to conceive, develop, engineer, manufacture, and maintain products cost industry billions of dollars annually. Initiatives to improve interoperability in heterogeneous application environments are therefore of vital importance, and consumers are demanding unprecedented levels of interoperability between PLM software applications to help accelerate critical business process threads, increase ROI, and augment time to market advantage.

Parasolid is the world’s leading 3D solid modeling component software used as the foundation of Siemens PLM’s NX and Solid Edge products. Parasolid is also licensed to many of the leading independent software vendors (ISVs) on a level play field basis. These ISVs develop hundreds of Parasolid-based applications in the product design and analysis market space.

The Rulestream Engineer-to-Order solution from Siemens addresses the unique challenges of engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturers with a comprehensive approach spanning sales, engineering and manufacturing. By capturing engineering knowledge and using this to automate key business processes across the enterprise, Rulestream Engineer-to-order clients have increased sales and win rates while reducing internal operating expenses and shortening lead times for custom products. The solution integrates seamlessly with existing ERP, PLM and CAD systems, helping custom product manufacturers respond to customer-specific orders more rapidly, accurately and efficiently.

The Rulestream Engineer-to-Order solution is part of an emerging class of enterprise software, called standards-based engineering, designed to capture, manage and reuse corporate intellectual property to automate engineering processes for best-in-class manufacturers. Leading standards-based engineering solutions are flexible, scalable, and designed to enhance and extend existing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Engineering Resource Planning (ERP) implementations. The

Rulestream Engineer-to-Order Continuous Improvement Loop

The Rulestream Engineer-to-Order solution from Siemens establishes a closed loop learning system that delivers continuous improvement to promote lean processes and facilitate extensive reuse that underscores innovation. The result is expanded enterprise collaboration and significant improvements in quality and time-to-market.

• Define: Capture new—or refine existing—business and technical rules and standards
• Deploy: Release rules across the enterprise for immediate or future use
• Execute: Rules and standards in executable form are used by sales, engineering, and manufacturing to accurately quote and optimally design order-specific products
• Improve: Measure quality and capture lessons learned, synthesizing this into additional or modified rule or standard definitions