Tackle the Most Difficult Product Lifecycle Management Projects with Teamcenter
From ideation, design, and manufacture through service and disposal, empower your team to make unified, information-driven decisions at every stage in your product’s lifecycle with Teamcenter PLM software.
Plan, Develop, & Deliver Innovative Products. Discover Why Teamcenter Is the Leading Choice in PLM.
Teamcenter is the leading choice in modern product lifecycle management (PLM) software. Use digital twins to connect and optimize processes for designs, systems, software, simulation and visualization. Resolve problems before they become real. Connect people across your business. Automate and streamline product lifecycle processes. Provide visibility for everyone to make innovative product decisions. Start-ups to large enterprises - across industries - trust Teamcenter. Invest in the future with modern PLM of unmatched breadth, depth and usability.
"G2 Named Teamcenter the Best PLM Software for Companies of Any Size, Outperforming 97 Others."
Teamcenter: Overcoming Product Development Challenges Across Industries
Teamcenter empowers companies across industries to tackle the full spectrum of product development challenges. From Aerospace & Defense to Automotive, Medical Devices, Industrial Machinery, Electronics, Energy, Marine, and Consumer Products, Teamcenter helps teams improve collaboration, maintain accurate product data, ensure compliance, manage complexity, enhance traceability, accelerate innovation, and reduce time to market. No matter the industry, Teamcenter provides a single, connected platform that drives efficiency, reduces errors, and supports innovation at every stage of the product lifecycle.
Teamcenter Deployment Options: The Difference Between Teamcenter, Teamcenter X, & Teamcenter Rapid Start
Host, manage, and support your Teamcenter PLM software with your IT team—or let us help. Teamcenter, developed by Siemens Digital Industries Software, is a comprehensive and widely used product lifecycle management (PLM) solution. It provides a suite of applications that help companies manage the entire product lifecycle—from concept and design to manufacturing, operation, and eventual disposal.
Teamcenter on the cloud, with a variety of hosting options, managed by your IT team or ours. Teamcenter X is a modern version of PLM—a cloud-based product lifecycle management platform. It is the most widely used PLM portfolio in the world and allows users to edit product data and processes such as 3D designs, embedded software, documentation, and bill of materials.
Deploy Teamcenter in a matter of weeks using pre-configured workflows optimized for your industry. Teamcenter Rapid Start is a deployment option that includes all the essential capabilities you need for PDM. With Teamcenter Rapid Start, you get all the benefits of PDM, built on best practices and a fast, proven implementation methodology.
Benefits of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Deploying a PLM system brings numerous benefits to an organization, ranging from increased collaboration and efficiency to improved product quality, compliance, and decision-making. It enables companies to stay competitive, innovate faster, and deliver high-quality products to market more effectively.
Saratech Teamcenter Services
Saratech helps design, engineering, and manufacturing teams improve their product development processes, enabling you to make better products faster and achieve meaningful business results. Our Teamcenter services streamline workflows, reduce inefficiencies, and ensure your PLM system delivers maximum value at every stage of the product lifecycle. Explore how we can support your digital transformation and optimize your product development process.
Understand current challenges, discuss requirements, and get started on the road to define your overall PLM strategy.
Transformation Strategy & Planning
Identify the best strategy to implement digital transformation for your organization. Our team will work with your stake holders and executives to clearly articulate your vision for PLM transformation, including purpose and benefits.
Define your PLM rollout strategy with detailed timeline and milestones. Coordinate and assign responsibilities and resources for a smooth rollout. Devise contingency plans to mitigate potential issues.
Every company's environment is different. Customization is necessary to get the most out of your Teamcenter deployment. We evaluate and identify inefficiencies then make adjustments to ensure your Teamcenter implementation is optimized for your organization.
Integrate Teamcenter with major MCAD, ECAD systems including NX, CATIA, Creo, SolidWorks and Inventor. Create seamless integration between Teamcenter and various systems to maximize efficiency.
Seamlessly migrate your engineering data from flat files, custom systems, and other PLM platforms into Teamcenter with Saratech’s DataLift™.
From system administration to user support, the Saratech team has the expertise and infrastructure in place to support your Teamcenter deployment. Having timely access to expert problem solvers allow your team to focus on product development.
Boost productivity with practical training on Teamcenter. Whether getting a new user up-to-speed or expanding the skills of your Teamcenter admin, Saratech will deliver the right training tailored to your requirements.
Unify Your Product Lifecycle with Teamcenter
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Teamcenter Capabilities
Teamcenter: Adaptable PLM Foundation
Teamcenter supports your business with an active product lifecycle management (PLM) foundation that can adapt quickly to market disruptions. Your Siemens PLM software applications are backed by a network of PLM foundation options that deliver fast time-to-value and protect your investment. You can choose from flexible deployment options (on-premise, cloud, and pre-configured) for rapid time-to-value and lower cost of ownership. Your IT team can adapt PLM to your unique business processes with configuration, not customization – and extend PLM with integrations to other best-in-class domain and enterprise applications. Administrative tools simplify IT management and maintenance to focus on priorities that matter most to your business.
Teamcenter: Bill of Materials Management
Meeting customer demands and connecting with partners and suppliers can be challenging. That’s why effective BOM (bill of materials) management and configuration are critical—whether your product has ten parts or ten million. As products become more innovative, managing accurate definitions, including BOM, grows increasingly complex. Saratech’s Teamcenter solutions provide a common source of BOM information across your organization, helping you manage both essential and advanced BOM needs. With our support, you can deliver innovative, varied products that meet and exceed market demand.
Teamcenter: Change Management & Workflow
Teamcenter eliminates costly overruns and delays due to the impact of a change across multiple domains. With Teamcenter, you can reduce the manual effort and cost of managing any PLM process. From coordinating complex change across disciplines, to executing a simple design review, to directing a response to quality issues, you can focus people on the right tasks, with the right data, to make the right decisions at the right time. You have visibility to the data, people and processes impacted by a change. This allows stakeholders across all disciplines to understand exactly what is changing and how it affects them.
Teamcenter: Document Management & Publishing
Documents can be expensive to produce, but with Teamcenter, you can keep documentation aligned with product changes to reduce the time and cost of development. With Teamcenter teams can create specifications, analysis reports, 2D/3D illustrations, spreadsheets, test results, and technical publications. Documents and technical publications are in the same product lifecycle management (PLM) system as all your other product-related information. Document authors have direct access to up-to-date product information like bill of materials, parts lists and 3D geometry, and can work to the same milestones.
Teamcenter: Electrical Design Management
Teamcenter electrical CAD management automates your engineering change, validation, and approval processes to speed cycle time and improve product quality. Collaborate with design data, revisions, and product configurations – across locations and extended supply chains. Digital mock-up and validation capabilities provide visibility to design changes in real-time. You can validate changes against every configuration, and visualize, probe, section, analyze and mark up. Version management and access controls mean the right people have the right information.
Teamcenter: Environmental Compliance & Product Sustainability
Teamcenter helps businesses stay competitive in today's market with environmental compliance and product sustainability solutions to help you control and trace the material makeup of your products down to the substance level. You can limit the use of hazardous substances in your products and reduce the risk of non-compliance with regulatory directives (REACH, RoHS, Conflict Minerals, etc.). While supporting your environmental compliance and sustainability objectives, you can grow your business and build customer loyalty by developing innovative, earth-friendly products.
Teamcenter: Manufacturing Data & Process Management
Teamcenter consistently and accurately connects planning to production, ensuring that the correct manufacturing data is delivered to and accessible from the shop floor. Establish a single source of product and process knowledge to re-use best practices and manage resources for continuous improvement. Collaborate instantly and securely across the product design and process planning of part production and assembly operations.
Teamcenter: Materials Data & Lifecycle Management
Many of today’s innovative designs owe their success to the revolutionary use and discovery of new materials – from lightweight mobile telephones and tablets, to electric vehicles, to advanced aircraft, to green energy equipment (wind turbines, solar, etc.), to medical devices. In this age of material driven product design, Teamcenter product lifecycle management (PLM) can help you manage the lifecycle of all the materials used in your products so that your company can create innovative, sustainable products.
Mechanical Design Management
Mechanical design management enables mechanical design integrations, digital mockups, and multi-cad management to deliver engineering efficiency and productivity. Collaborate with your group, enterprise, suppliers, and mechanical design management.
Model Based Systems Engineering
Define and model systems, analyze options, optimize performance, and continuously assess the impact of change to start and stay integrated.
Product Configuration
Product configuration provides the power to plan product variability, understand buildable combinations early in the process, and automatically create part designs and documents. Benefits include ensured accuracy, collaboration across domains, and flexible support for standard products.
Product Cost Management
Fulfill the dual mission of profitability and sustainability. Cost and carbon footprint transparency for products and tools enables you to make decisions based on quantifiable data early in the development phase.
Product Requirements Engineering
Start compliant and stay compliant. Integrate requirements with the product lifecycle, enabling compliant by design products.
Search & Analytics
Enable all stakeholders to find what they need without wading through irrelevant information and interact with relevant information in a meaningful way. With smart user interaction, dynamic search, and actionable analytics, you can find more while searching less.
Program Planning & Project Execution
Adaptable solutions ensure the right work, and the right data are delivered to the right person at the right time. Make your product vision your product realization.
Simulation Management
Collaborate across the digital thread to manage simulation processes, data, tools and workflows to drive product development. Key capabilities include data and lifecycle management, structure management, and visualization.
Software Design & Asset Management
Everything you need to achieve agility and have full control over your cyber-physical systems application lifecycle. Increase efficiency across your product processes with cross-discipline traceability, improved design productivity, and simplified software configuration.
Sourcing & Supplier Integration
Secure collaboration with your suppliers, asynchronously or in real-time, on a global scale. Optimize collaboration with suppliers by streamlining processes, protecting intellectual property, and improving and monitoring performance.
Visualization, Digital Mockup & Virtual Reality
Visualize, analyze, and collaborate on products as they evolve across the product lifecycle. With high-performance visualization, digital mockup, and extended reality, make better decisions and know your products best.
Teamcenter Success Stories: Driving Innovation & Efficiency Across Industries
Explore real-world examples of how organizations across industries are driving measurable results with Teamcenter. From accelerating electric vehicle innovation and cross-team collaboration at Our Next Energy, to improving product data management and cutting operational costs at a leading food manufacturer, and optimizing complex system engineering at a global transportation solutions provider, these case studies highlight how Teamcenter helps companies reduce release cycles, enhance innovation, and improve efficiency across the product lifecycle.
Empowering electric vehicle innovation and enhanced collaboration across all product groups with Teamcenter.
Korea's leading general foods company utilizes Teamcenter's comprehensive product data management tools to increase innovation and significantly reduce costs.
Teamcenter plays a vital role in creating cutting-edge cable-drawn transport systems enabling Doppelmayr to maintain a leading global market position.
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Teamcenter PLM FAQs
What is PLM?
PLM is the process of managing a product across its lifecycle, including design, manufacturing, sales, service, and retirement.
What is PLM software?
PLM software integrates multiple systems to streamline the flow of data throughout the product’s lifecycle. It provides easy access to that data, facilitates collaboration, and increases visibility into the production process.
Why use PLM?
By centralizing and organizing documentation and data, PLM saves time, increases efficiency, and facilitates change management. It also enables designers and engineers to identify problems early in the production process, reducing costs and waste. PLM helps accelerate product development, improve speed to market, increase product quality and ensure on-time delivery.
How has PLM evolved?
PLM was first adopted in the automotive and aerospace industries, but is increasingly used in the manufacture of consumer goods. Any organization with complex processes and supply chains is a candidate for PLM.
How long does it take to deploy Teamcenter?
Deployment time depends on the size of your organization, number of users, scope of processes, and integrations. Contact Saratech to estimate deployment time for your business needs.
Is Teamcenter only for large enterprises?
No. While Teamcenter is widely used by large organizations, it’s also scalable for small and mid-sized businesses. Solutions like Teamcenter Rapid Start or Teamcenter X (cloud-based) provide affordable, streamlined options that can grow with your business needs.
How does Teamcenter handle security and data access?
Teamcenter provides robust role-based access control, ensuring users only see and modify the data relevant to their roles. It supports data encryption, secure authentication, and detailed audit trails to maintain data integrity and protect intellectual property.
Can Teamcenter grow with my business as it scales?
Yes. Teamcenter is designed to scale with your organization, from a small team implementation to a global enterprise solution. As your business grows, you can expand functionality, user access, integrations, and storage without disrupting your existing workflows.
How can Teamcenter help my business bring products to market faster?
Teamcenter streamlines product development by centralizing data, automating workflows, and improving collaboration across design, engineering, and manufacturing teams. By reducing errors, minimizing rework, and providing real-time visibility into product data, companies can accelerate time-to-market and increase overall efficiency.
How does the file management system work in Teamcenter?
Teamcenter uses a File Management System (FMS) to handle file uploads, downloads, caching and distribution across client and server tiers.
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