Teamcenter

Community Collaboration Creating a collaborative environment to engage all enterprise teams in product lifecycle processes

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Summary To create product teams with diverse participants across companies, geographies, time zones, firewalls and systems, you can establish a web-based collaborative environment to facilitate the secure sharing of PLM data. Teamcenter® Community software supports global teaming by connecting with every user’s desktop, bringing people together with the tools and services they need to perform as a team, and connecting them with the product knowledge of the extended enterprise to ensure that right decisions can be made every time to avoid rework, reduce cost and get to market faster.

Benefits Enhance your business initiatives for Securely link people with each revenue growth other and diverse sources of Manufacturers today are under intense product knowledge for better and faster product-related decisions pressure to deliver winning products to Optimize dynamic processes and market more quickly, and at reduced teams to maximize team efficiency costs. To achieve these goals, companies and productivity can no longer do it alone. They must Reduce the frequency, time and engage partners and suppliers, and costs associated with design reviews they can no longer rely on traditional and iterations methods of collaboration (phone, Enable enterprise-wide collaboration on product data from fax, meetings) to get the work done. simple documents to rich 3D product data To compete in the digital economy, Leverage existing IT strategy and companies must form extended enterprises – with participants across different continents, companies, investments for rapid deployment, time zones and computing platforms. These teams require a comprehensive set of collaboration reducing risk for rapid ROI services to connect individuals to individuals, and to connect them with the product knowledge of the extended enterprise. Capabilities Builds adaptable virtual conference To provide these services, UGS presents Community Collaboration. Community Collaboration is a rooms for teams web-based collaboration environment that extends the reach of Teamcenter's product lifecycle Invites members from internal collaboration capabilities to everyone in the extended enterprise to enhance your key business groups, external suppliers initiatives for revenue growth: and customers • New product development (and introduction – NPDI): Capture and automate knowledge to maximize Defines personalized portal views success in current and future product and process development Exchanges knowledge and insights • Knowledge/intellectual property management: Integrate people and processes to link key customer requirements with the functional execution and management of programs to design, simulate, validate and manufacture innovative products • Value chain synchronization (global product development, supplier collaboration): Outline the exchange of knowledge and information about any element from idea to product to optimize global response to demand and effectiveness in the supply chain fact sheet Teamcenter

Key features Community Collaboration High performance, lightweight advantages 3D visualization Teamcenter Community provides seamless Real-time 2D/3D conferences integration with Teamcenter allowing you to CAD collaboration securely share PLM data with globally Secure data with access control dispersed teams and external partners at Integration with enterprise data any point in the product development Visual issues list process. It provides a mechanism that Routing and tracking of tasks, allows users to capture ad hoc knowledge issues and documents and promote it into their corporate Personalized user interface product knowledge warehouses (such as Team site dashboards PDM, ERP or legacy systems) where it can Rapid and flexible deployment be managed and re-used. Teamcenter Community enables rich product data collaboration through integrated visualization allowing view, markup and analysis of data from any of the corporate CAD or other document formats. Teamcenter Community allows you to leverage your CAD investments with tools that enable you to collaborate with 3D data from multiple, dissimilar systems using the CAD-neutral JT format. All team members can view and interact with the virtual product without having to learn to use a CAD system. Teamcenter Community’s seamless integration with Teamcenter Visualization enables teams to tailor their environment for specific user needs that run the gamut from basic view and markup capabilities (typically used by supervisors and decision makers) to advanced digital mockup capabilities that pertain to designers and engineers. Teamcenter Community provides a simple, easy-to-use environment for ad hoc collaboration with PLM data. Users can have an unplanned, or planned, meeting and create collaboration groups on the fly without involvement from an administrator. Teamcenter Community’s intuitive web-based user-interface requires minimum user training and enables users to quickly create virtual team workspaces to gather ad hoc knowledge and share product data. Teamcenter Community enables product teams to easily capture and share a visual representation of product issues as part of their review and approval process. This information can be conveniently stored in a central location that all team members can access and interact with. Visual Issues gets everyone on the same page to reduce the time and costs associated with understanding and resolving engineering issues. Teamcenter Community delivers integrated visual, document and application sharing conference capabilities that allow globally dispersed product teams to review design issues and product concerns in real time. These capabilities let team members quickly identify problems and reach mutual decisions, saving time, and minimize the need for travel. Teamcenter Community is the best-in-class ad hoc collaboration tool for product development available in the industry!

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