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Active Workspace: Big news for Teamcenter users

April 6, 2012 By Evan Yares 3 Comments

Siemens PLM just announced Active Workspace, a new product in the Teamcenter software portfolio.

There are three general groups of people who are going to be interested in Active Workspace: those who use Teamcenter, those who’ve thought about adopting Teamcenter, but haven’t made the jump yet, and those who are using competing PLM solutions, who will likely be telling their suppliers “we want something like this.”

Siemens PLM describes Active Workspace as “a personalized environment for accessing the entire PLM ecosystem, which provides all PLM users with the right information at the right time to make the right decisions. Active Workspace delivers high-performance search and visualization capabilities, simple yet powerful collaboration tools, and a groundbreaking user interface. Active Workspace delivers the multi-disciplinary decision support platform that PLM workers need to make smarter decisions and better products.”

So, Active Workspace connects users to the resources (people and information) they need to get their jobs done better.

Siemens PLM Software CEO Chuck Grindstaff puts it this way: “All companies and individuals face the challenge of dealing with information overload due to the increasing speed and volume of data coming from multiple sources. Active Workspace helps companies manage this challenge and significantly enhances decision making by reducing complexity and intelligently presenting PLM information that is accessible for all users… Active Workspace creates an intuitive and personalized 3D graphic interface that significantly enhances the ability of our PLM suite of offerings to deliver knowledge instantly to the right people, at the right place and in the right context to support rapid and intelligent decision making.”

Like I said, it connects users to the resources they need to get their jobs done better.

Joe Barkai, the Practice Director for Product Lifesyle Strategies at IDC, explains it a bit differently: “The constant increase in product complexity creates a need for a strong multi-disciplinary decision support platform that makes information exchange and collaboration simple, intuitive and effective. A dynamic decision support system, like Active Workspace, creates rich technical and business context to enable intelligent, high-fidelity decision making.”

Like I said, it connects users to the resources they need to get their jobs done better.

You might call Active Workspace a “dashboard.” It’s the place where a user will come to at the beginning of their work day. Here are Active Workspace’s major features:

Visualize and Navigate Product Data

  • Allow users to easily locate, browse and visualize products in greater detail using intuitive graphical controls.
  • New high-performance visualization capabilities allow users to view products in a fraction of the time previously required.
  • Intuitively see and understand how data relates to the network of information that supports and defines it, helping users make timely, high-quality decisions.

Compare and Report Product Information

  • Easily investigate rich PLM information directly on the 3D product model with color-coded, easy-to-understand, visual reports.
  • Create visual reports without the need for training or support from IT.

Configure and Share Contexts

  • Save the recipe for decision contexts by utilizing our innovative new shelf.
  • Share information with another user or a whole group of users − whether it is a filtered list of search results, a color-coded visual report, or anything else – by dropping it on the shelf.
  • Once something is on the shelf, anybody else with access can reference the data, confident that the information is accurate and current.

Collaborate Effectively

  • Active Workspace will proactively suggest appropriate people for users to collaborate with based upon the context of the information they are reviewing, helping make sure they engage the right people to assist in making the right decision.
  • Collaboration tools are seamlessly integrated into Active Workspace, keeping users in a single tool and allowing them to get the answers they need faster.
  • Active Workspace integrates with e-mail and instant messaging, as well as Teamcenter Application Sharing, providing numerous ways to share information.

Find What You Need Faster

  • Return search results faster than ever before, bringing information to the user almost instantly.
  • Enable users to find and access information from anywhere in their PLM ecosystem, not just information managed by Siemens PLM Software products.
  • Intuitive filtering allows users to quickly narrow search results down to just the information they require without having to know a lot about that data beforehand.
  • Embedded shape search capabilities allows users to find components that are geometrically similar.

Here are some images that show screen shots from Active Workspace.  Click on the images to see high-resolution versions of the images.

Active Workspace suggests key stake holders for a user to collaborate with on this product.

An Active Workspace user views the product in intuitive 3D and sees the relationships to other information at the same time.

A user views high performance, realistic graphics in Active Workspace.

Systems Engineering relationships are clearly displayed in Active Workspace.

A user views a color coded graphical report directly on the 3D product model in Active Workspace.

Search results from multiple sources are clearly displayed to the user in Active Workspace.

Why is Active Workspace a big deal?

What Active Workspace isn’t is a shiny front-end pasted on a PLM system, just to make it look sexier.  It is a serious tool to help engineers to get their work done faster and better when dealing with information overload and organizational complexity.  It’s just what a good tool should be: a force multiplier.

 

Siemens PLM Software 

 

Filed Under: Evan Yares, Featured, Siemens PLM, Siemens PLM & Events Tagged With: Active Workspace, Siemens PLM, Teamcenter

Enterprise-wide use of 3D CAD software

September 21, 2011 By Laura Carrabine Leave a Comment

Up until 2007, the Ikeda Business Group in Brazil was using a 2D graphics design software to create their mobile equipment, and agricultural and leisure product. Then Helcio Mariano Pinto was hired for coordinating the product design and development for all Ikeda divisions. He was familiar with Solid Edge software and its advanced 3D capabilities. The product was selected for use by all Ikeda employees in part because of its ease of use and processing speed.

“We quickly rolled out the software across the business units,” says Pinto. “With one or two mouse clicks, you can perform simple functions and solve a number of problems.” He said the main goal was to find software with maximum command simplicity. Information quality, project security, design reliability, and project documentation are some of the areas where the company has made gains due to the use of Solid Edge.

In 2010, Ikeda Group migrated to Solid Edge with synchronous technology. Pinto said, “The advantage of synchronous technology is the ability to work with various versions of projects quickly and simultaneously. In addition, users do not have to choose between constraint-driven or history-free modeling. They can re-use a model without programming knowledge, and data from multiple CAD systems can be leveraged immediately. We now work on three or four projects at a time. This affords greater flexibility in pursuing new projects involving agricultural implements, mobile devices, or leisure products. Depending on the complexity of a project, sometimes drafts are reay in one day rather than two weeks.”

Today, the company has six licenses of Solid Edge with synchronous technology and five licenses of Teamcenter Express, which are used for project data management and product lifecycles.

Siemens PLM Software
www.siemens.com

Filed Under: 3D CAD Package Tips, CAD Industry News, CAD Package, Siemens Blogs, Siemens PLM Tagged With: Ikeda, Siemens PLM Software, Solid Edge, synchronous technology, Teamcenter

Leader in hydropower equipment seeks world-class advantage

September 14, 2011 By Laura Carrabine Leave a Comment

The Flovel Group is a hydropower equipment supplier that provides turnkey solutions for small- and medium-sized hydropower projects. Business units include Flovel Energy Pvt. Ltd., which specializes in the entire range of hydropower equipment and services for design, engineering, manufacturing, installation, and servicing for all heads and outputs covering all types of turbines, and TB Hydro Flovel Valves Pvt. Ltd., which designs and manufactures a variety of inlet, shut-off, regulating, and air valves for turbines.

At one point, Flovel’s management began to look for product development technology that was adept at accelerating the release of highly customized, innovative new products to market, while at the same time being able to ensure the high quality and rigorous accuracy required by its customer base.

To meets its requirements, Flovel selected  products from Siemens PLM Software including Solid Edge, Teamcenter Express, NX, and Femap with NX Nastran. Solid Edge is used for CAD to design complex turbine parts. Flovel based this decision on the software’s ability to handle sophisticated designs, 2D functionality, and sheet metal handling capabilities. Based on the successful use of Solid Edge at Flovel, the company is looking to leverage the product in other areas, including CAE, CAM, and product lifecycle management (PLM).

Using Solid Edge, Flovel has improved its overall design methodology (concept to prototype to product) and cut costs (due to a better understanding of 3D conceptual prototypes). The company cites outstanding ease of use compared to traditional approaches to design, noting that the user-friendly Solid Edge is fostering idea generation and innovation. Flovel also gives Solid Edge praise for superior searching options for making assemblies and points out that the visualization capabilities of Solid Edge measurably accelerates the handling of large assemblies.

Once Solid Edge was in place, Flovel implemented the second step in its product development initiative by adopting Teamcenter Express as its collaborative product data management (cPDM) solution. The goal was to establish a scalable cPDM solution that would facilitate collaboration between all of the key disciplines in the company’s product development operations. The procurement team selected Teamcenter Express for its visualization and collaboration capabilities, strong multi-CAD and multi-site support capabilities, and the ability to streamline the company’s design process. With Teamcenter Express, the company wanted its planning, design, engineering, and production departments to establish a synchronized engineering database with design information that users could easily access, share, and exchange on a secure and controlled basis.

Other goals for Teamcenter Express included establishing drawing number controls and materials codes, identifying the latest versions of their design information, and disseminating information in standard workflow-driven design processes. The company wanted standard, up-to-date information, such as what is contained in product catalogs, quality standards, manuals and plans, to be kept in Teamcenter Express for immediate access. Beyond this, Flovel engaged Teamcenter Express to manage released design information so that it can be leveraged by all of the company’s business units and their manufacturing operations for purposes of improving its CAM and CNC machining processes.

Flovel has extended its design process capabilities by implementing NX which is enabling designers to model difficult surfaces such as runner blades more easily. The company has also implemented Femap with NX Nastran. The intent of this deployment is CAE design optimization.

Currently, Flovel is using Femap with NX Nastran to analyze complex components. The company is performing finite element analysis (FEA) on turbine components for customized applications and operating conditions, as well as using the software to verify designs developed using conventional design tools. In addition, Flovel plans to extend its use of Teamcenter Express to other organizations and integrate the company’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system into its product development initiative.

Siemens PLM Software                       

www.siemens.com/plm

Flovel

www.flovel.com

Filed Under: 3D CAD Package Tips, CAD Blogs, CAD Industry News, Siemens Blogs, Siemens PLM, Simulation Software Tagged With: cad, Femap, Nastran, NX, PLM, Siemens PLM Software, Solid Edge, Teamcenter, turbines

New mobility app for Teamcenter empowers mobile workforce to make smarter decisions, better products

April 5, 2011 By Laura Carrabine Leave a Comment

Siemens PLM Software announced its new Teamcenter Mobility mobile device application (app) for instantly accessing — from WiFi or mobile broadband-available locations — the rich and comprehensive product knowledge managed by its Teamcenter software. Through the use of this new app, which is being initially deployed on the Apple Inc. iPad portable digital device, companies can enhance their ability to interact with product data and workflows at the right time, in the right place and in the right context to further enhance the speed and accuracy of decisions made throughout a product’s lifecycle. 

Teamcenter Mobility is available immediately and currently enables the user to search, display, and interact with detailed product information, including 3D product models, providing a powerful tool with a visually compelling presentation that enhances understanding and supports decision making. The initial implementation is being deployed via iPad with additional platform and functionality support to be announced at a later date.

 

Siemens PLM Software

www.siemens.com/plm

Filed Under: 3D CAD Package Tips, Siemens Blogs, Siemens PLM Tagged With: Apple, cad, iPad, Siemens PLM, Teamcenter

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