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Benefits Summary • Simple and fast to install, The Teamcenter® software Rapid Start con- set up and deploy figuration delivers the world’s most widely implemented product data management • Essential PDM capabilities (PDM) solution, Teamcenter, preconfigured available immediately to leverage common best practices and the • Minimal IT expertise to expertise of Siemens PLM Software. The operate and support Rapid Start configuration gets you up and running with PDM quickly and cost-effec- • Realize benefits quickly for tively. By choosing preconfigured a fast return-on-investment capabilities, you can minimize the costs of • Start with PDM and grow to consulting and maintenance, allowing you PLM to immediately realize the benefits of PDM with confidence that you have a growth Features path to product lifecycle management collaborative environment. Your cross-func- • Single source of product (PLM) when you need it. tional teams can quickly find, share and data re-use product data to help streamline Teamcenter Rapid Start provides multi-CAD • Multi-CAD data product development. data management capabilities that enable management you to effectively and efficiently manage, You can also use Teamcenter Rapid Start to • Support for popular CAD control and share mechanical CAD data manage everyday tasks and processes with systems across your entire design and supply chain. preconfigured best practice workflows for Supporting the most popular CAD tools, engineering change and product release. • Intelligent part numbering this environment provides a single view of Confident that these processes are followed • Data exchange your product data. consistently, you can work efficiently and effectively in a collaborative environment The visualization capabilities of Teamcenter to meet design and schedule targets. help you extend this into an even broader

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Features continued Multi-CAD data management include facility code, product family code, • Document management Helping to accelerate product development sub class and source code. Multiple num- by promoting design re-use, Teamcenter bering schemes are supported as well as • Simple process MCAD data management and multi-CAD multiple ways to capture the information, management support enable design teams to create, including list pull-downs, combo boxes, • Preconfigured roles and manage, and re-use native design data radio buttons, logical values and free text functionality from multiple CAD systems, including NX™ fields. software and ® software from • CAD-neutral visualization Siemens PLM Software, as well as Autocad, • Collaborative design review Catia, Inventor, Pro/Engineer and tools SolidWorks, all in a single secure environment. • Codeless configuration By using Teamcenter, your design teams don’t have to migrate parts from other CAD systems to work together. Using your com- pany’s native CAD system, design teams can begin sharing their designs using ISO standard JT files, the industry’s most widely-used 3D visualization format. JT is a highly flexible, CAD-neutral format that enables designers to integrate design and visualization from multiple CAD systems Document management into a virtual product model that can be Teamcenter Rapid Start delivers standard viewed, interrogated and marked-up by integrations with Microsoft Office and other team members, including widely-dis- Adobe to extend the use of PDM to users persed participants across the lifecycle. outside of the engineering department. These integrations can be used for creating Teamcenter Rapid Start includes packaged, and updating technical publications, pro- managed review and collaboration tools to cess sheets, customer requirements, enable data exchange for controlled design manufacturing setups, test specifications, reviews without requiring any direct con- or any other documents you may want to nection to Teamcenter. Leveraging the manage. You can even interact with prod- power of JT, you can digitally validate prod- uct information and workflow processes uct configurations without the need to directly through the familiar Microsoft migrate parts to another system. Office user interface. Teamcenter Rapid Start also includes “Smart Teamcenter Rapid Start comes with precon- Codes” to enable your company to define a figured reports to support everyday standardized way to generate part num- reporting requirements. Reports are based bers. Smart Codes allow you to capture on accurate, up-to-date product data in important properties (e.g. material type, your PDM system. Preconfigured reports manufacturing location, finish, end-use, can help you track and optimize your prod- compliance, etc.) that should be used to uct costs, materials, weights and more. automatically generate IDs for each part. Your engineers and other users simply Whatever type of data you are managing, apply the Smart Codes “rules” and a consis- Teamcenter enables you to easily find the tent part number will be generated as information you need. You can search on required when a new design or part is business objects and their properties using being created. Preconfigured options can TEAMCENTER

either preconfigured or user-defined Companies or teams that want to use an searches and you can save commonly-used integrated and simplified change manage- searches so you can run them again later. ment process can use the preconfigured capabilities of the engineering order that Simple process management includes the basic components of a typical Teamcenter Rapid Start provides you with engineering change process: change basic workflow capabilities to streamline request, change notice and the required product development by managing the part workflow process to release or discontinue release processes. This helps you more parts and documents affected by changes. easily: The engineering order also provides quick • Review, comment and approve or reject access to all change-related information parts and documents including forms to store attributes for the change request and a set of folders to store • Capture audit date and timestamp related documents and parts. information • Manage cross-functional review teams (notifications, quorums, etc.) Leveraging the experience Siemens PLM Software has gleaned from thousands of software implementations, Teamcenter Rapid Start comes with a set of preconfig- ured workflows to help you release your products. For those situations requiring specific pro- cess compliance, you can reconfigure and adapt the Teamcenter Rapid Start standard workflows, or create new ones quickly and easily, without any programming. Teamcenter Rapid Start also delivers a con- figuration management model supporting Your PDM workflows can also be accessed revision rules, revision status filtering and from within Microsoft Office products, basic revision effectivity using dates or unit including Microsoft Outlook email. You can numbers. synchronize Microsoft Office tasks and activities, and automate a variety of inter- Preconfigured roles and responsibilities departmental processes such as review and Another area of special functionality in sign-off of specification documentation. Teamcenter Rapid Start is a focus on the tasks you do every day, both as individuals and as a team. Teamcenter Rapid Start offers preconfigured groups and roles that you can use to simplify common tasks. The user interface is tailored to each individual type of user, only showing menu options and applications required for their job. This reduces the user learning curve and improves overall usability. The standard set of roles supports typical tasks such as issuing an engineering order, reviewing designs, releasing and approving TEAMCENTER

documents and more. These tasks can be multi-CAD environment can perform analy- streamlined by using shortcut links in the sis on 3D assemblies without requiring “I want to” area of the user interface. The access to a CAD system. tasks are automated by wizards, making Teamcenter Rapid Start comes with precon- them smooth, natural and consistently figured Teamcenter translation services to repeatable for a reliable and efficient automate: process. • 2D translation including NX drafting to There is also an out-of-the-box role tar- CGM, HPGL and TIFF; Solid Edge drafting geted at shop floor use cases such as “find to PDF, DXF or TIFF parts” and “documents released for manu- facturing only.” The role helps you view, • 3D translation, including Solid Edge, NX, measure, and print. Typical user roles for NX I-deas, Catia V5, SolidWorks, Inventor, the shop floor viewer include inspection, Pro/Engineer to JT; and Solid Edge to assembly team, machine set-up, and more. IGES, STEP, or STL The security model and related information • Document translation, MS Office to PDF access is an important side of the precon- All Siemens PLM Software translators can figured user organization in groups and be deployed with Teamcenter Rapid Start, roles. This means that different roles which is workflow-driven and creates the (approvers, checkers, designers, suppliers) translation request based on available can have different information access, translators installed, types of files found as depending on the lifecycle state. This helps workflow targets, BOM attachments and ensure that your intellectual property is user preferences. protected and auditable throughout the complete product lifecycle. Follow the path to PLM With Teamcenter Rapid Start, you can start Platform and deployment with what you need now and grow over The foundation of Teamcenter Rapid Start is time. Once you have Teamcenter Rapid Teamcenter, which enables you to take Start up and running, you can add on advantage of best-in-class visualization Teamcenter capabilities as you need them. Contact capabilities and deliver visualization, col- You can follow the proven Teamcenter path Siemens Industry Software laboration and design review using JT and a to PLM success, targeting key areas of your Americas +1 314-264-8499 large number of other 2D and 3D file for- business to optimize performance. Europe +44 (0) 1276 413200 mats. Organizations that work in a Asia-Pacific +852 2230 3308

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