Siemens Offers Teamcenter PLM Content Management
 NORWALK,
Conn., and PLANO,
Texas, Sep 3, 2010 -
Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Inc. and
Siemens
PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division
and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and
services, today announced an integrated
Teamcenter software based PLM content management solution. The new
integrated service offering - PLM Driven Content Management - developed for the
manufacturing industry sector will help customers to better support technical
publications writing in development, service or after-sales business.The PLM
Driven Content Management offering combines Siemens IT Solutions and Services’
in-depth content management experience, best practices and implementation
services with the commercially-available Teamcenter content and document
management solution to help customers capture and organize information for both
internal use and external publishing. The new enterprise-wide publishing and
content management offering is specifically designed around the product
development process. It allows individual companies and entire supply chains to
capture information - from the onset of product design all the way through to
multi-media updates to publications for commercially available products, such as
owner’s manuals, service catalogs and repair manuals.
Siemens PLM Software and Siemens IT Solutions and Services are currently
working with Daimler AG in Germany to build its publishing framework for
automotive technical documentation.
“What makes this offering unique is that it’s a content management solution
specifically designed within the context of PLM,” said Ed Shinouskis, vice
president, Siemens IT Solutions and Services. “The offering, built on
Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter, the world’s most widely used PLM portfolio,
creates incredible efficiencies in both the design and the publication
processes. It captures each and every step in the lifecycle of the product and
automates and archives all of that valuable information for easy retrieval and
downstream publishing. It is an invaluable tool for any company involved
in product development and content management.”
“This solution combines Siemens IT Solutions and Services business and IT
expertise and Siemens PLM Software’s industry-leading, open enterprise PLM
backbone to provide customers with high-value solutions in the field of
technical publications and content management,” said Eric Sterling, senior vice
president, Global Marketing, Siemens PLM Software. “Siemens PLM Software is
committed to working with our system integrator partners to help our customers
efficiently and cost-effectively get more out of their PLM implementation.”
Teamcenter content management system synchronizes technical content with core
product information for complex publications like parts catalogs, owners’
manuals and service documents. As engineering changes occur, downstream
publications can be updated to stay current with the most recent release of the
product. However, producing documents requires manual publication design by an
independent team of illustrators, technical writers, editors and design
consultants and the resulting publications require frequent updating to stay
current with engineering changes.
The Teamcenter PLM based solution integrates the efforts of the engineering
and documentation teams in a single common environment, allowing authors and
engineers to stay in sync during each step in the product development process,
by capturing and archiving information on each specification change. It
then manages documents and technical publications, created in each stage of the
product design lifecycle and publishes it for almost any purpose and in almost
any format without recreating it — including 3-D. It even allows the use of
existing authoring and editing tools through standard integrations.
The Siemens IT Solutions and Services offering includes the installation and
configuration of Teamcenter, the establishment of documentation policy and
procedures of the customer, and the migration of legacy systems to the PLM
driven content management solution.
The solution will dramatically reduce the time it takes to generate highly
complex documents and minimize opportunities for errors because it captures each
step in the documentation process once and maintains it as needed.
Teamcenter content management can manage multiple languages, control the process
of translation and lowers risk considerably by eliminating the need to replicate
information among various elements of the development and publishing processes.
Furthermore, if a change is made in one element of the publication, it will
automatically update that change throughout the entirety of the content. The
solution allows splitting large documents into logical segments which enables
writers to reuse documentation without re-creation. The core PDM functionality
of Teamcenter manages these segments in a logical, configurable structure.
About Siemens IT Solutions and Services
Siemens IT Solutions and Services is an internationally leading provider of
IT solutions and services. It covers the entire IT service chain from a single
source, from consulting to system integration, right through to the management
of IT infrastructures. In addition, Siemens IT Solutions and Services
complements the portfolio offerings of the Siemens Sectors with IT solutions.
With its comprehensive know-how and industry-specific knowledge, the IT provider
creates measurable added value for its customers. Siemens IT Solutions and
Services employs more than 35,000 people and posts annual sales of about $6.3
billion, of which more than 75 percent are generated outside of the Siemens
Sectors.
For more information, visit
www.usa.siemens.com/it-solutions.
About Siemens PLM Software
Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation
Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM)
software and services with 6.7 million licensed seats and more than 63,000
customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software works
collaboratively with companies to deliver open solutions that help them turn
more ideas into successful products.
For more information, visit
www.siemens.com/plm.
About the Siemens Industry Automation Division
The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany) is a worldwide
leader in the fields of automation systems, industrial controls and industrial
software. Its portfolio ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and
process industries to solutions for whole industrial sectors that encompass the
automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a
leading software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added
chain of manufacturers - from product design and development to production,
sales and a wide range of maintenance services. With around 39,000 employees
worldwide (September 30), Siemens Industry Automation achieved sales of €7.0
billion in fiscal year 2009.
For more information, visit
www.siemens.com/industryautomation.
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