In today’s highly competitive global marketplace, industry-leading companies need to develop and deliver world-class products. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) makes that happen. An enterprise PLM system drives product and process innovation by enabling your company to build the right product. Siemens Teamcenter software is the world’s most widely used PLM system.
Teamcenter powers innovation and improves productivity by connecting people with the product and process knowledge they need to function effectively in a globally-oriented product lifecycle. Teamcenter’s proven digital lifecycle management solutions are built on an open PLM foundation. Teamcenter’s manufacturing planning and management solutions help manufacturers manage product and process knowledge in a single environment. The offering provides several collaboration and analytical tools to help companies perform manufacturing planning digitally and thereby avoid production stoppages because of design flaws.
With Teamcenter Manufacturing, companies are able to:
Our Teamcenter Manufacturing offering covers all the modules below.
Manufacturing companies often struggle to identify the relevance of engineering change orders for their manufacturing processes. Additionally, manufacturing engineers have only limited influence on the product design. Siemens Manufacturing Process Planner (MPP) enables you to manage your manufacturing data, process, resource, and plant information in an integrated product and production lifecycle environment. This provides a seamless alignment between your engineering bill of materials (BOM), manufacturing BOM and the manufacturing bill of process (BOP). You can be confident that your designed parts and assemblies are properly consumed by your manufacturing processes. You also have advanced time management features that can help you analyze value added and non-value added activities and support your lean initiatives. You can also generate 2D/3D work instructions to clearly communicate assembly steps to the shop floor.
The Manufacturing Process Planner user interface has a “dashboard” look and feel that greatly enhances your productivity by displaying the most relevant information in a single window. You also leverage Teamcenter’s powerful capabilities in managing variants and effectivity, workflows, access control, reporting and classification. Process Simulate can be accessed directly from Manufacturing Process Planner, so that you can perform detailed assembly simulation, ergonomic analysis and workplace optimizations.
Siemens Manufacturing Resource Library (MRL) is a Teamcenter application that provides classification and data management for manufacturing engineering resources. A typical use is as an advanced tool library where tool component and assembly data can be managed. The Manufacturing Resource Library provides powerful search, view and retrieval capabilities across a full classification system. NX CAM users have direct access to the library for tools, fixtures, templates and more.
Resources such as cutting tools in the library are categorized using Teamcenter classification technology. This arranges the data into a hierarchy with classes and sub-classes. For example, one class might cover all milling tools. Within each class, the system manages key characteristics such as tool length, cutting diameter, vendor and material, and you can search on these parameters. MRL uses integrated 2D/3D viewers so that you can visualize the tools as well.
MRL is designed to display tooling vendor catalogs, such as Sandvik or Kennametal, within the classification structure. MRL has standard mapping for the vendor-neutral Generic Tool Classification (GTC) standard, based on ISO 13399. This allows the tooling attributes and models from the vendor catalogs to be imported to the company’s components library.
The data stored within the Manufacturing Resource Library can be accessed directly from multiple systems, such as NX CAD, NX CAM, Line Designer and Shop Floor Integrate. Within NX CAM, the NC programmer can search for and retrieve fixtures, standard machining templates, machine models, and tool assemblies using menus in NX that connect directly to the MRL. The Manufacturing Resource Library can also be integrated with a tool management system, Shop Floor Integrate, to utilize the virtual tool data stored in Teamcenter to create the physical tools on the shop floor. For more information on this, please see the Shop Floor Integrate page.
The Manufacturing Resource Library ensures consistency by connecting planning and production. With MRL, you can:
Using Manufacturing Resource Library in conjunction with Teamcenter to store machining data would provide a fully integrated manufacturing environment. This would help:
Electronic Work Instructions (EWI) refers to computerized visual tools to instruct shop floor workers to perform their jobs. Unlike paper-based work instructions, electronic work instructions may also include 3D models of the parts to be assembled, information about the tools as well as product and manufacturing information (PMIs). In addition, EWI may be interactive, allowing the reader to manipulate the 3D view, play animated assembly sequences as well as browse through a sequential list of steps to be performed per job order. Detailed, highly visual and up-to-date work instructions can improve product quality, reduce rework and save time. The ability to manage work instruction documents per product configuration provides significant benefit not only for the initial generation of work instructions, but also for the flexibility to manage changes quickly is expected from a good work instruction solution. While authoring of the initial work instruction may require some effort, being able to manage the engineering changes and to reconcile them into the manufacturing structure is the most time-consuming task in manufacturing planning.
• Clean and simple, mobile friendly user experience
• Web-based platform
• Configurable user interface themes
• Dynamic, configurable gateway
• View change information
• Full-text search on files and file contents
• View step by step bill of process
• View Work Instructions
• View Cortona 3D Animation
• Parts and Tool list per operation
• Submit issues, problem reports and change requests
• Visualize large and complex 3D product data without any installation
Creating an informative manufacturing routing is a critical component when constructing a product. Providing as much detail to your manufacturing process and operations enable a simpler direction for the users on the shop floor, promoting efficiency and overall quality of the product. Oftentimes, work instructions do not exist and products are solely built on tribal knowledge. If work instructions do exist, they are typically not revision controlled or up-to-date, or perhaps not even utilized on the shop floor. Teamcenter Manufacturing Process Planner (MPP) enables creating textual work instructions using standard text as building blocks. These textual work instructions can be tied to processes or operations within the routing.
Throughout the complex product lifecycle, you are expected to make good decisions in the context of a large amount of input and data, often from a variety of sources. The Active Workspace client for Teamcenter software from Siemens PLM Software is an innovative web-based client platform that simplifies product lifecycle management (PLM) for all users involved in your product lifecycle. Active Workspace makes Teamcenter accessible by providing a streamlined and intuitive PLM user experience anytime, anywhere, on any device.
Teamcenter software delivers bill-of-materials (BOM) management capabilities that enable you to know your product; whether it consists of 10 parts in a single configuration managed with basic processes and tools, or it is a highly-complex product with millions of parts in thousands of configurations, requiring more advanced tools, flexibility and scalability.
You use the Product Configurator to define variant data for your company, and then associate it with product items and product models. Using the Product Configurator allows you to create comprehensive variant data for various Teamcenter applications in a single location. These definitions are used by other applications, for example, 4G Designer, in which you apply the defined variability to the CAD designs. You can also create items to represent variant option libraries and products in other applications (typically, in My Teamcenter) and send them to the Product Configurator.
One of the largest challenges in the manufacturing industry is managing changes. The most important component to effective change management is to completely understand the impact of a presented change. Teamcenter Change Management offers several tools to enable the users to continuously and systematically improve the product. Through advanced workflow capability, changes in design intent can be traced to all related dependencies and decisions across the lifecycle of a product. Users can directly assess the impact of the change and compare revisions of the product. Within Teamcenter, users can initiate, administer, review, sign-off and execute product changes within a single, pre-configured workflow. The change history will remain associated to the product throughout its lifecycle, supporting full traceability.
Siemens Teamcenter software offering is the world’s most widely used PLM system. While most companies see Teamcenter as a tool to manage engineering data alone, we focus on Teamcenter to bridge the gap between engineering and production as it relates to manufacturing. With a true concurrent engineering solution that allows parallel execution of product engineering and process planning activities, you can drastically improve profitability, time-to-market and quality.
