Shop Floor Connect for Teamcenter

Benefits Summary • Control distribution of the Shop Floor Connect for Teamcenter is an application add-on for Teamcenter® manufacturing plan data software that delivers CNC program files from Teamcenter directly into the right to the point of use machine controller. More than just a traditional DNC system, the connection • Maintain transparency across to the centralized Teamcenter database avoids data duplication and manages the manufacturing revisions to make sure the correct manufacturing data is used on the shop organization floor. It also enables your production staff to access current and released CNC • Meet regulatory compliance programs, drawings, 3D models and other data sources through a web-based constraints on traceability user interface that runs on any browser-enabled device or controller. • Eliminate separate shop floor databases Connection to Teamcenter • Provide process account­ Shop Floor Connect for Teamcenter is an application that communicates ability by documenting the directly with Teamcenter, Siemens PLM Software’s comprehensive system for production processes. managing product lifecycle management (PLM) data and processes from design and engineering through production. Features • Download and upload NC Teamcenter provides an data and tool target data to/ environment that you can from NC controllers use to manage product and • Upload shop floor process definitions, data files programmed NC programs in and resources. It maintains Teamcenter workflows and roles for users • Upload and administer who work in process chains, machine parameters in as well as tracking Teamcenter to ensure capabilities for monitoring security document revisions and • Connect to all types of NC release status. controllers and tool presetters Unlike traditional direct • Connect through a serial numerical control (DNC) (with adaptor hardware) or systems, Teamcenter Ethernet interface at the NC eliminates the need for an controller independent shop floor • View all Teamcenter database; its data remains manufacturing information within a controlled via a browser based interface environment until it is sent to the machine tool. Shop floor users can see the source data while it remains

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Features continued • Leverage a configurable user Mold/die Fixture NC interface that determines designer designer Programmer user roles and rights, as well as appropriate uploading and downloading permissions Shop Floor Connect for Teamcenter • Data logging of all activities Teamcenter with a configurable activity report • Import legacy production Manufacturing Process data Shop Floor Connect for Shop Floor engineer planner Teamcenter machine Connect for tool client Teamcenter user Manufacturing Engineering inside the Teamcenter managed environment. Data files needed for production can be pulled directly to the Direct Machine tool Tool manager numerical controller Shop manager point of use in a controller or presetter. control Quality inspector (DNC) By providing the shop floor with direct access to the source of manufacturing plan via a simple, web browser interface, Shop Floor Connect for Teamcenter facilitates Access to manufacturing data on the • Assembly instructions many advantages, including: shop floor • Drawings • Use of the correct manufacturing data Shop Floor Connect for Teamcenter • 3D models (JT™ format) in production provides shop floor operators with direct • Tooling setup data • Fewer production errors access to released Teamcenter data. Using • Movie files • Fewer shop floor delays while data job numbers or work package identifiers, is checked operators can locate the correct data files Saving and managing shop floor data • Closer connection between needed for production, including CNC When CNC programs are created, modified, manufacturing engineering and programs, tool lists, set up sheets and or optimized by the production team, they production drawings. The following data can be can be saved and maintained by • Secure workflow and process flow accessed, depending on what has been Teamcenter as new data or revisions to • Elimination of local shop floor databases stored as a part of the manufacturing plan existing data. outside of the IT infrastructure and released for use in production. • Transparency to all users • NC programs Process consistency • Reduced paperwork • Tooling lists Teamcenter workflows and user rules can • Quicker, more flexible information flows • Shop documents be implemented to ensure that processes • Lower product rejection rate • Digital photos are followed correctly and consistently. • Operating instructions Traceability Tool presetters also connect directly to Teamcenter maintains usage logs and take advantage of tooling and resource generates audit reports, making it easy to information from the Teamcenter understand where and when data is database. accessed, downloaded or updated and by whom. Touchscreen ready Users appreciate the large format buttons Compliance and interface elements of Shop Floor Managing data in the Teamcenter secure Connect for Teamcenter, which make and controlled environment right up to the touch screens easy and natural to use. In point of production helps companies meet addition, the browser-based user interface applicable regulatory requirements for runs on web browser applications that process accuracy/accountability, detailed users already understand. traceability and auditing. Comparison tool Machine connections Users can install third-party file Shop Floor Connect for Teamcenter can comparison software within the Shop Floor provide a direct connection to each Connect for Teamcenter environment so machine in the shop. Machines connect via that they can check and evaluate different Ethernet or through serial connections versions of their data files. (using a separately available serial adapter). Most proprietary control systems Legacy data import can be connected. Users can easily import legacy production data into the Teamcenter database by using automatic options that facilitate the loading of tooling data and NC programs.

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