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PLM (product lifecycle management) enables associates in different locations to share product information, operating literally as a single organization. PLM brings together disparate data and people, from around the world, and provides the backbone for functionality, processes and real-time information during the product lifecycle.
Today's PLM market is exceeding all forecasts for sustained growth. In fact, not only are manufacturers worldwide implementing PLM in record numbers, but PLM is also becoming a true competitive necessity. Embracing PLM can take companies to the next level of growth and success: developing products your customers want and streamlining your business operations. You can improve customer and supplier relationships, accelerate time to market and drive more efficient production and manufacturing. The bottom line? Efficiencies are realized and your business becomes more profitable.
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The Oracle E-Business Suite Product Lifecycle Management family of applications helps you collaboratively manage all product-related activities, from concept to retirement. A unified data model provides a single, accurate view of the product, so you can accelerate your new product introductions, maximize the value of your product throughout its life cycle and plan future investments. And when Product Lifecycle Management runs on Oracle technology, you speed implementation, optimize performance, streamline support, and maximize return on your investment.
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Teamcenter powers innovation and productivity by connecting people and processes with a single source of product and process knowledge. Teamcenter's comprehensive portfolio of proven digital lifecycle management solutions is built on an open PLM foundation to power end-to-end PLM.
Systems Engineering and Requirements Management
Portfolio, Program and Project Management
Engineering Process Management
Bill of Materials Management
Compliance Management
Supplier Relationship Management
Mechatronics Process Management
Manufacturing Process Management
Simulation Process Management
Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul
Lifecycle Visualization
Reporting and Analytics
Community Collaboration
Enterprise Knowledge Management
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The D-Cubed components are software tools that can help increase the profitability of software applications in the CAD, CAM, CAE and PLM marketplace by raising their value and lowering their costs. This is achieved by innovating with proven tools that enhance competitiveness, ensure quality and reduce time to market.
Siemens PLM Software develops these components, uses them throughout its own applications and licenses them to independent software vendors and end-user organizations for integration into their applications. Flexible licensing arrangements and a simple, proven integration process enable any organization, large or small, to enhance their applications quickly and economically. A range of services are available to support the use of the components.
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SAP Product Lifecycle Management:
Software That Provides the Single Source of Truth for All Product-Related Information
Product innovation brings new challenges daily - environmental concerns, shorter product life spans, globally distributed sites and project teams. Today manufacturers must deliver high-quality products quickly and cost-effectively - while retaining and building a customer base, reducing service costs, and complying with international regulations.
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3DLive leverages enterprise 3D and PLM information to bring intellectual property (IP) to life in a single immersive interface that connects people, processes and products. It delivers easy to use, award winning, search, navigation, and collaboration capabilities that provide a real-time snapshot of product status across the enterprise and throughout the lifecycle.
With V6R2008-1, 3DLive adds multi-CAD support for ENOVIA MatrixOne and ENOVIA SmarTeam users – putting knowledge at your fingertip and contextually connecting you to the product ecosystem.
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CATIA PLM Express is mapped to industry and job-related needs so that you can easily take your first steps towards achieving business transformation through PLM. You can rapidly and easily define the solution that matches your business needs, embarking on the expressway to immediate deployment time reduction and rapid return on investment – critical efficiencies for all businesses, regardless of the industry.
CATIA PLM Express offers:
* A collaborative solution to leverage teamwork design
* A smart configurator solution tailored specifically for your industrial processes - take only what you really need
* A quick-start package for a smooth deployment in less than 10 days
* A fast path to rapidly ramp up to a complete PLM solution
* A working Windows® and Office® environment you are already familiar with
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Tecnomatix 9 improves planning productivity of manufacturing planning processes. At the same time, Tecnomatix drives manufacturing productivity in many areas, including optimization and commissioning of robotics and automation, manual workplace configuration, and optimal placement of equipment and material flow.
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Design for the entire product lifecycle
Manufacturing companies are driven by increasing pressure to develop innovative products in shorter time frames, while maintaining high levels of quality. Even with mature, capable 3D CAD technology, many companies have failed to significantly improve their design processes, and the benefits of lower costs and shorter cycle times remain elusive.
Transformation of product development begins with the design process, which fuels the entire product lifecycle – from simulation and analysis through tooling design, manufacturing, assembly, service and support.
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Freeform Shape Modeling
NX Shape Studio is a tailored styling and industrial design package that offers the freedom and accuracy designers need to explore shapes and what-if styling in the conceptual modeling phase. By seamlessly integrating curve- and surface-based modeling, NX Shape Studio puts cutting-edge CAD tools into the hands of industrial designers. At the same time, the easy-to-use toolbox fosters innovation. These flexible tools, from drag-and-drop templates to dynamic construction, enable fast, easy creation and evaluation of design alternatives while providing real-time visual feedback. And there's no worry about changes or iterations, as associativity takes care of downstream data integrity.
With Shape Studio, designers can use practically any approach or modeling technique. For example, the designer might begin modeling by using standard parametric design techniques that employ curve-driven geometry. Then, when creating contours and integrating ergonomics, the designer might use freeform techniques. Or the designer could begin modeling without precise definitions, adding geometric constraints later. Construction geometry and style details can be rapidly generated by the dynamic mapping of 3D curves onto freeform shapes. Or surfaces can be constructed using pre-set combinations of section and guide curves, with the designer monitoring impact as it occurs.
All model data transfers directly downstream. And the fully associative database ensures that any changes are automatically updated in related applications such as engineering design, assembly, drafting, simulation, and manufacturing.
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Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
Shorter product development cycles are the primary driving force in manufacturing. Continuous innovation and change in designs require more and faster development of numerical control programs, molds, tools and dies required to manufacture the product. Rapid technology change is increasing the complexity of the tools and processes used in manufacturing, and new methodologies are breaking down the walls between design and manufacturing operations.
As the world leader in computer-aided manufacturing, Siemens PLM software helps companies meet the challenge with leading edge solutions. More than point solutions for discrete production tasks, the NX suite of manufacturing software links design and manufacturing to improve productivity throughout tooling and fixture design and NC machining processes.
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Consumer Products
Compared to traditional approaches, Solid Edge provides more freedom and control for evaluating and manipulating shapes in real time. Combined with a variety of process oriented tools for shape design, plastics part modeling, sheet metal, assembly design and drawing creation, Solid Edge delivers everything you need to get down to the business of consumer product design.
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Machinery and Equipment
As a machine designer today you are constantly facing one very clear but difficult issue: the ever increasing complexity of your product designs. Driven by market demand for new and innovative products with an increasing array of options, product complexity has multiplied exponentially in the last decade. Add the need to apply new technologies before your competitors do, customer demand for faster delivery - and the need to fit more and more capability into smaller and smaller spaces while delivering increasingly functional shapes with optimized material costs - and product complexity becomes almost impossible to manage
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Virtual Studio+ is included with Solid Edge Classic in V18. It resides inside the familiar Virtual Studio environment and allows you to render your images quickly and accurately at any stage of the design process. By providing you with the ability to simulate a wide range of sophisticated materials, colors, textures, scenes and real lighting situations, Solid Edge Virtual Studio+ lets you create high quality photo-realistic renderings of parts or assemblies at light speed. Latest technologies for generating artistic-based renderings for a pencil drawn look are also part of Solid Edge Virtual Studio+.
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Companies today face a constant pressure to shorten time-to-market and increase innovation while also keeping tight control over product development costs. As a result, simulation has become a key product development activity.
However, in some cases, simulation has also become a process bottleneck and has not delivered the anticipated efficiency and productivity gains. There are several issues: stand-alone CAE tools are designed for specialists, thus limiting wider adoption; companies use multiple design and simulation software leading to numerous, error-prone data transformations; different work groups prepare models independently, duplicating effort and making it difficult to understand design trade-offs; and simulation environments are disconnected from the rest of the product lifecycle including requirements, engineering workflows and manufacturing.
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The pressure to shorten time-to-market while improving product performance and quality is driving the use of digital prototyping throughout the product lifecycle. As a result, simulation data management is becoming increasingly important. According to research firm AberdeenGroup, best-in-class companies are almost twice as likely as the industry average to manage simulation and product data relationships.
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Solid Edge XpresRoute eases the design of mechanical routed systems. A comprehensive set of industry-specific design tools helps designers quickly route and model piping and tubing in Solid Edge assemblies. Fully integrated with Solid Edge, XpresRoute utilizes process-specific workflows that match industry best practices and work the way that you want to work. With XpresRoute, you not only accelerate your design process for mechanical routed systems, you also enjoy improved BOM accuracy and lower costs through standardization.
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Producing and selling more products does not lead to more profit – not if you can’t extract maximum production efficiency from your manufacturing operations. Building products with inefficient manufacturing operations means that you spend more time and money compensating for those inefficiencies.
Tecnomatix’s Plant Design and Optimization solution gives you 3D parametric-based smart objects to layout efficient factories faster. Utilizing 3D for factory layout also increases your ability to find design flaws during the planning process and not on the factory floor. Material flow, handling, logistics, and indirect labor can all be optimized using material flow analysis and discrete event simulation. These resource optimization techniques analyze things like part routing information and equipment capabilities against your factory layout. Even material storage needs and part packaging information can be used. You can also manage your factory layout environment with standardized resources in a shared data environment. Collectively, these capabilities promote increased planning accuracy and efficiency. This helps you to minimize capital investments and maximize production efficiency.
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SOLID EDGE Wiring Harness
Solid Edge Wire Harness Design is a dedicated process driven environment for the efficient creation, routing and organization of wires, cables and bundles in a Solid Edge assembly. Wire Harness Design allows electrical and mechanical design teams to collaborate on designs to create complete and accurate digital mockups containing both mechanical and electrical components, and removes the need for expensive physical prototypes. Design violations such as exceeding physical bundle size or a bend radius being too tightly routed are constantly monitored as the harness is being designed; live feedback immediately displays any problems. Reporting of cable and wire cut length and attributes (allowing for a slack percentage and wire stripping) are captured during the harness design process. The export of ready-to-use 'net list' files adds these mechanical attributes to generate harness designs that are ready for manufacturing.
Automatic wire harness design
Once electrical engineers have developed and proven their designs using electrical prototypes (a task becoming increasingly important as the size and complexity of electrical systems increase), the harness wizard allows mechanical engineers to automatically generate and route physical wires and cables. The harness wizard uses input from dedicated electrical schematics applications such as Mentor Graphics, Cimteam and Vesys to automatically transfer any net-list components and connections to Solid Edge.
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Sheet metal design is a core capability of Solid Edge, with support for the entire design-through-fabrication process. Leveraging Synchronous Technology, sheet metal designers can develop models faster using fewer commands, make changes in real-time, edit supplier data, and take designs to production with flat patterns and automatic drawings. Solid Edge delivers the most productive sheet metal CAD package available.
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Solid Edge with synchronous technology 2 continues to build on the innovative synchronous technology design paradigm first seen in 2008. The technology has been extended into more areas of part design, assembly modeling and sheet metal design. Combine that with a new embedded mid-range FEA and an update of Solid Edge Insight, Solid Edge with synchronous technology 2 continues to deliver up to a 100x faster design experience.
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