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The early stages of the product lifecycle are crucial to improvingthe success of your product development programs. By enablingyou to capture diverse product knowledge and manage thisinformation in digital engineering processes,Teamcenter ® Engineeringdrives your most strategic business initiatives.

Teamcenter EngineeringUsing engineering process managementto drive your strategic business initiatives

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Business challenges

Today’s market leaders competeon the basis of:

• Time-to-market• Product cost• Innovative content

To succeed in today’s economy,you have to outperform yourcompetitors at multiple levels.

But how do you accomplish this,when the product lifecycle forplanning, designing,manufacturingand supporting your product

offerings is more complex than ever?How do you optimize your productlifecycle when your extendedenterprise includes your owngeographically dispersed operations,as well as the diverse operations of your suppliers,business allies andtrusted customers?

How do you transcend theseboundaries to drive key businessinitiatives for:

• New product developmentand introduction

• Global product development• Global manufacturing• Maintenance, repair and overhaul• Regulatory compliance• Strategic sourcing

UGS believes that the earlystages of your product lifecycleare key to the success of yourproduct portfolio.

Product design and designvalidation determine well over

half of your development costs.Your design decisions invariablyimpact the downstream stagesof your product lifecycle.

To optimize these early lifecyclestages, UGS provides TeamcenterEngineering – the world’s mostrobust solution for facilitatingengineering process management.

Teamcenter Engineering enables yto capture product knowledge frommultiple sources and manage, shar

and leverage this information so thyou can make better, faster and moinformed decisions throughout theproduct lifecycle. TeamcenterEngineering's capabilities allow yo

• Provide better visibility to theprogram gates and phases in youchange processes

• Perform global design review andvalidation continuously,ratherthan only periodically

• Leverage common processes acro

multiple development programs• Re-use parts from one programto the next

In essence,Teamcenter Engineeringenables you to transform yourproduct development cycle fromunconnected processes that arelimited by isolated informationsilos to an integrated productdevelopment process thatmeets the needs of today'sglobalized economy.



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With so much riding on the effectiveperformance of the early stages of your product

lifecycle, you need to establish sustainablecompetitive advantages in terms of yourability to:

Integrate all of the designs createdby your value chain to define a product’sengineering content. Bottom-line benefit:reduces your product development costs.

Synchronize the engineering processes thatrequire the participation of your entirevalue chain; enable value chain participantsto access all of the product informationthey need to get their jobs done effectively.

Bottom-line benefit:compresses yourproduct development cycle.

Enable all of your product-related teamsto work together effectively – withoutregard to any member’s physical location.Bottom-line benefit: leverages your globalengineering resources more effectively.

Establish product configurations that youcan manage, track and re-use across an

entire product lifecycle – as well as acrossmultiple product offerings. Bottom-linebenefit: slashes your development costs.

Accelerate product delivery by enablingyour design teams to seamlessly collabo-rate with your manufacturing teams.Bottom-line benefit:enables you to be firstto market with your product innovations.

To address these strategic issues, UGS offersTeamcenter Engineering – a proven multi-CADengineering process management solution formulti-site product teams.

A crucial solution in UGS’ market-leadingTeamcenter portfolio,Teamcenter Engineering isespecially adept at enabling product developmentteams and extended enterprises to improvethe efficiency of the earliest stages of theproduct development.

Introducing Teamcenter Engineering



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Teamcenter Engineering’s business value

Teamcenter Engineering allows engineeringand manufacturing teams to synchronize designdata, share design models in workflow-drivenprocesses and collaborate across a fully digitalenvironment. By combining these capabilities,your company can improve its product quality,reduce time and cost to manufacture andaccelerate your entire product lifecycle.

By accelerating your product lifecycle,TeamcenterEngineering enables you to increase the numberof products that you annually release to marketand generate significantly more revenue fromyour product portfolio.

Teamcenter Engineering enables you to leverageyour CAD investments in new processes by tightlyintegrating multiple, dissimilar CAD systems,including NX, Solid Edge, Pro/Engineer, Catiaand AutoCAD.Because Teamcenter Engineeringprovides you with a multi-CAD environment,all of the members of your take to marketteams can view and understand the virtualproduct without having to learn how to usea CAD system.

Teamcenter Engineering is the leader in multi-sitecollaboration and knowledge sharing – enablingyou to federate your cooperating databasesinto a single logical system.

Teamcenter Engineering allows geographicallydispersed product teams to collaborate incommon design and team members to participatein automated engineering and manufacturingprocesses.

Teamcenter Engineering’s integrated visualizationcapabilities improve communications amongteam members, as well as collaboration withother lifecycle teams.This enables you to injectmore innovative design content into yourproducts while ensuring that your design contentis properly aligned and fully concurrent.

Teamcenter Engineering allows you to captureall of your product definition data and enablesyou to configure it so this information can beleveraged to automate and expedite yourdownstream product lifecycle processes.

Teamcenter Engineering accelerates

product development by enabling enterprise teams to steamline your engineering processes.



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Teamcenter Engineering’s benefits

Optimizes early stages of product lifecycle that candetermine up to 80 percent of your product cost.

Increases product innovation and flexibility enabling youto target new markets.

Increases design and manufacturing concurrency.

Overcomes the barriers to communication among OEMs,suppliers and their allied partners.

Accelerates the introduction of new product offerings.

Synchronizes the activities of globally dispersed teams.

Catches costly design mistakes up front in yourproduct lifecycle.

Enables team members to securely access all informationrelated to your product definitions.

Ensures that everyone in your value chain is working fromthe same product assumptions.

Leverages your value chain’s most current CAD, CAMand CAE investments into new processes.

Enables you to extend your business value rapidly andseamlessly by adding other Teamcenter solutions whileprotecting your current investments.

Teamcenter Engineering delivers five

key capabilities to maximize the early stages in your product lifecycle.

• Optimized product developmentprocess

• Engineering process management

• Multi-site collaboration

• Continuous design validation

• Unified product lifecyclemanagement



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Managed development environment

You can use Teamcenter Engineering to create and deploy manageddevelopment environments that enable you to manage all of yourproduct knowledge, leverage this knowledge across multipledevelopment programs and streamline development processesthat extend from initial concept to manufacturing.

You can use Teamcenter Engineering’s highly integrated knowledgemanagement, engineering process management, part/componentre-use, rapid validation and design analysis capabilities to establishan environment that initially addresses a single initiative and thenexpand the environment’s functionality to drive other initiativesat your discretion.

Teamcenter Engineering-driven MDEs are especially well suitedto facilitating:

• Lean design, where Teamcenter Engineering’s knowledge managementand process automation capabilities eliminate all aspects of wastefrom product development, thereby improving the speed,efficiencyand cost effectiveness of your development processes.

• Design for Six Sigma,where Teamcenter Engineering allows you tobuild customer requirements – that can be measured,verified,optimized and tracked – into all of your development processes.

• Systems engineering,where Teamcenter Engineering enables youto understand your products as a whole, systematically accountfor product change and evaluate/optimize the tradeoffs that affectinterrelated processes across your entire product lifecycle.

Teamcenter Engineering’s multi-CAD support reduces developmentcosts while enabling your extended enterprise to leverage multipleCAD investments.State-of-the-market engineering collaboration mustprovide a multi-CAD environment that allows your cross-disciplinedesign and manufacturing teams to seamlessly leverage design datacreated using any major CAD system.

Teamcenter Engineering meets this criteria by providing the onlyengineering product data management solution that supportsmulti-CAD data management in a single multi-purpose collaborativeenvironment.This managed environment enables you to seamlesslyleverage your integrated CAD data with the world’s leading 3Dproduct visualization and digital mockup capabilities.

Teamcenter Engineering lets team members create and modifycomponent designs on their native CAD systems (i.e., teams and/or

individual team members continue to use their CAD system of choice) and publish their innovations/modifications in a managedenvironment when review is required by other teams/members.

Teamcenter Engineering automatically manages both native andneutral CAD representations to eliminate unnecessary translatingdelays. Equally important, this managed environment enables all teamsand their members to access the most up-to-date productinformation available.

Teamcenter Engineering creates a managed development environment by supplying the tight integration of all major CAD systems,including NX, Solid Edge, Pro/Engineer, Catia and AutoCAD.



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CAD part

Requirements document

Visualization

Cost spreadsheet

Project schedule

Engineering change

workflow

Teamcenter Engineering streamlines product development cycle times by enabling teams to automateand synchronize their engineering processes.State-of-the-market engineering process management ensuresthat all critical product information is delivered to the right team members at the right time.TeamcenterEngineering enables entitled users to quickly locate the product knowledge they need to perform their jobs,while eliminating unwieldy information searches.

Teamcenter Engineering surpasses the capabilities of traditional CAD file management by capturing allrelevant product and process information and relating these assets to a common product structure.

Teamcenter Engineering can manage all of your relevant CAD,CAM and CAE information, as well asdesign specifications, documents,requirements and other types of product-centric information.

Teamcenter Engineering’s process management capabilities allow you to define workflows that reflectcompany-specific business rules,user roles and notification procedures. As a result, you can use TeamcenterEngineering to digitally transform your concept design, release, program review, engineering change, globaldesign review, documentation review and procurement-related processes.

Teamcenter Engineering providesengineering process managementcapabilities that streamline your product development processeswhile ensuring that you get theright product information to theright people at the right time.

Teamcenter Engineering’s product structure allows you to manage all product information, not just C AD files.

Engineering process management



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Firewall

Internet http(s)OEM Suppliers

By supporting multi-site collaboration,Teamcenter Engineering reduces product development costs

and take-to-market cycle times by enabling engineering teams, allied partners and suppliers to work seamlessly together in a virtual product-centric environment.

Teamcenter Engineering was built from the ground up to leverage the Internet for engineeringcollaboration. Designed to work across firewalls,Teamcenter Engineering enables all of your globallydispersed teams to share their product knowledge, align their design assumptions on a product-centric basis and participate in automated engineering processes in a secure collaborative environment.

Team members can access Teamcenter Engineering at anytime from anywhere. They can employvirtually any kind of web-accessible device, including mobile laptops, personal data assistants andwireless phones. All entitled team members can access the same base of product information usingfamiliar web browsers, regardless of where they reside or what viewing devices they employ.

Multi-site collaboration is especially valuable to geographically dispersed product teams that needto work with synchronized product informatoin retained in two or more databases. By leveragingTeamcenter’s robust federated services, Teamcenter Engineering addresses three key needs.

Federated networking – where multiple sites in the same enterprise maintain different businessrules, user/group controls or workflow processes and need to exhange product information whileretaining their local autonomy

Network performance issues – where enterprises distribute a large Teamcenter database into smaller,closer geographic or discipine-specific databases

Outside data exchange – where enterprises exchange data with suppliers or allied partners that wantto maintain their own independent Teamcenter database

Teamcenter Engineering enables

multi-site, cross-discipline teams – including your suppliers and allied partners – to collaborate by lever-aging your most current productinformation and accelerating your product releases to manufacturing.

Multi-site collaboration

Teamcenter Engineering leverages standards-based Internet technology to enable your extended enterprise to globally shareengineering information across firewall boundaries.

PRODUCT MAKERS ASK:

How can I synchronize my suppliers’ design data intomy internal development

processes?



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Design change

Productconfiguration

Digital validation

Visualization

CAD

PDM

Teamcenter Engineering streamlines your product development processes and optimizes your product

designs by enabling you to quickly configure, design, mockup and validate your discretely manufacturedproduct offerings in a unified collaborative environment.

Teamcenter Engineering is the world’s first solution to provide a repeatable design-in-context process.Teamcenter Engineering unites industry-leading visualization, digital mockup and 3D design solutionswith product data management.This enables design teams and their members to access all productconfigurations and product knowledge that you retain under Teamcenter Engineering directly fromyour visualization and design solutions.

Teamcenter Engineering allows your teams to design and modify new components and assemblieswhile working in a multi-CAD digital mockup environment. Because Teamcenter Engineering’s unifiedenvironment is designed for dynamic validation, you can automatically and repeatedly validate yourdesign changes across all product configurations and their variants. This enables you to quicklyunderstand the impact of these changes while ensuring design integrity across your product line.

By knowing something as simple as a single part number or change order, users can loadeverything for their design session from a small subset of par ts to an entire assembly.

Advanced variant and option management capabilities make it easy for teams to develop new productversions or configurations for different markets.These capabilities maximize the re-use of your existingproduct knowledge.They provide a repeatable way for you to configure correct revision and versioncontext while minimizing the amount of data loaded for your particular design session.

Next-generation digital prototyping – continuous validation

Digital mockup (DMU) is the

traditional way of performing digital prototying. DMU solutionsreflect a static, time-consuming and one-off process.Teamcenter’snew approach, called repeatabledigital validation is the next

generation of digital mockup,where design validation isdynamically and continuously performed in the context of all design changes. Repeatable digital validation provides breakthroughtechnology that delivers substantial productivity gains.

Teamcenter Engineering enables all of the participants in your extended enterprise to seamlessly configure and validate the design content that goes into your new product offerings.

PRODUCT MAKERS ASK:

How can I accelerate design processes that involve thecontinuous validation of engineering changes?



Teamcenter Engineering capabilities

Capabilities Benefits

Advanced security Protects your mission-critical product information by applying best-practice access rules

Global access Enables you to establish engineering and manufacturing teams and perform knowledgesharing in a distributed multi-site environment

Complete search and retrieval Enables users to quickly locate component, part, and product information that appears inboth graphic and textual formats

Managed check-in/check-out Protects the integrity of your engineering product information by “locking out” work in progress

Revision/version control Manages information changes by establishing revisions and intermediate versions

Friendly part/assembly Enables you to build and configure hierarchical product structures that areconfiguration management “intuitively” controlled

Comprehensive document Manages documents, specifications and other non-graphic information assets related to amanagement defined product structure

Optimal process management Manages work in progress by leveraging state-of-the-art engineering change management

Visual engineering change Provides early visibility to change impact and an overall view to your productmanagement change history

Embedded visualization Enables users to dynamically view 2D and 3D virtual products, including design datacreated under multiple CAD systems

Digital mockup verification Digitally validates high-level product configurations

Repeatable digital validation Enables users to configure and validate high-level multi-CAD product designs in a unifiedweb-native environment

Part classification Enables users to classify, locate and re-use existing parts and tools during the productdevelopment process

Advanced product configuration Manages product options, variants, alternatives and multiple views to bills of materials (BOMs)

Easy view and mark-up Provides users with multiple ways to access product information during review processes,including supporting the world’s premier solution for visual collaboration

Teamcenter Engineering’s robust capabilities provide allof the functionality that your engineering teams, allied

partners and suppliers need to collaborate on a globalbasis and maximize the efficiency of your productdevelopment processes.

These capabilities enable you to deliver new and moreinnovative products faster than your competition, whileminimizing your costs and improving the productivityof your entire extended enterprise.

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Key capabilities



Optimizing productengineering

Teamcenter Engineering treats theearliest stages of your productlifecycle as a tangible business assetthat you can streamline, manage,monitor and improve on a rigorousand systematic basis.

Teamcenter Engineering eliminatesthe geographic boundaries that slowdown your engineering processesand prevent you from efficientlydelivering engineering information tothe manufacturing stages in yourproduct lifecycle.

Don’t let the opportunity to optimizeyour engineering processes passyou by. Contact your UGS salesrepresentative now for moreinformation about TeamcenterEngineering – the world’s firstmulti-CAD engineering processmanagement solution for multi-siteproduct teams.



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